I spent the last few weeks working with Joe Klug (BizTalk Server Product Manager) and other members of the Product team on a demo that shows SharePoint Business Data Catalog (BDC) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), specifically the WCF LOB Adapters SDK. The demo shows the implementation of a...

I'm in Redmond this week attending Microsoft's fifth annual SOA and BPM conference. It's pretty interesting so far, and I'm intending on writing a number of different posts (one per session that I attend). For the last nine months I've been working in the federal IT arena stationed working with a reasonably...

The section session I attended was entitled "People-Read Processes with SharePoint Workflows and Forms Services" and was presented by Christian Stark, a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft. The presenter gave a survey at the beginning and hinted that, if you met a certain criteria (which I did) that...

Today started out with the keynote for the conference and it was certainly not disappointing. The following is basically a brain dump of the information presented along with some commentary. Dr. Donald Ferguson (previously a "Fellow" at IBM) opened the conference by explaining talking a little bit about...

The third session I attended was a lunch session sponsored by K2 ( http://www.k2.com ). I was looking forward to this presentation as I've heard quite a bit about K2, and they've been doing workflow in SharePoint long before MSFT was. During this session, they focused on their "Black Perl" product which...

Teched US is here!!!, this year I am presenting two sessions in the SOA track and I have the honor of co-presenting with my good friend Joe Klug who used to be a Product Manager on the BizTalk Server team. On Tuesday 3 rd I will be presenting a session about Real World Business Activity Monitoring (BAM...

Tomorrow my good friend and colleague Joe Klug will be presenting a MSDN WebCast about integrating WCF and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). Joe has prepared a cool set of demos that explore how to integrate WCF services and adapters with MOSS technologies such as Business Data Catalog or SharePoint...