Hi,

I'm wondering what would you say is a learning curve for BizTalk?

My background is VB.NET/C# and SQL2000 including lots of DTS stuff (3
years). I'm thinking about starting a project using BizTalk but I'd
like to know what I'd be getting into as far as lag time.

Thanks in advance!

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I came from a same sort of background and I have found BizTalk 2004 very
stright forward and easy to pick up.

Initially, I had a problem understanding the difference between a Receive
and a Send port and which one is which and also setting the properties can
be quite confusing....building the orchestration first time can be a pain
especially understanding the different use of each shape and so on.

Schemas, maps, functoid, using External Dlls, pipelines, ports are straight
forward and if you are a .NET developer, it would be very simple for you to
understand the concepts behind them and how to optimise your project by
utilising most of the functionalites available.

It would normally be following tutorials and biztalk course materials and
newsqroups are usually the best place to get yr questions answers. For
experience, if you get any errors just google it and u'll probably get an
answer in most cases...

other stuff can be quite difficult but not too difficult such as positional
files, any new transmission protocols, communication to a legacy database,
emailing with attachment using infopath etc...


Hope that helped and good luck...

Kamal




"Alex" <fwd_newsgroups@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what would you say is a learning curve for BizTalk?
>
> My background is VB.NET/C# and SQL2000 including lots of DTS stuff (3
> years). I'm thinking about starting a project using BizTalk but I'd
> like to know what I'd be getting into as far as lag time.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

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Hi,

The quickest way to get a bit of hands-on is to try the virtual labs:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/t...lk/default.aspx

You don't need to install any software.

Choose a couple that match waht you want to achieve, and see how you get on.

If your planning a project, it's a good idea to try a small proof-of-concept
to see if BizTalk is suited to what you want to achieve, and also how long i
t
will take you to get things working. Usually it takes a while to pick things
up, but once you have, you become very productive.

BizTalk works will in Virtual PC if you want to install it there instead of
your main box.



Regards,

Alan


--
The Bloggers Guide to BizTalk
http://geekswithblogs.com/asmith



"Alex" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what would you say is a learning curve for BizTalk?
>
> My background is VB.NET/C# and SQL2000 including lots of DTS stuff (3
> years). I'm thinking about starting a project using BizTalk but I'd
> like to know what I'd be getting into as far as lag time.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>

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