Ok so this was the first title when I was going to only be about a day late. Now that I am almost a week late I should have really called it a summary that is too late. Either way I wanted to say a couple good things about Mark Dunn and his presentation of BizTalk. So if you cannot tell, this is about the .NET user group meeting on Monday November 29th.
It started out with a great presentation on how to help you get a job. Janet Turnure was a great speaker and maybe better than her husband Doug. (no offense Doug I still think you are a good speaker too and put some blogs up) Her presentation was followed by another great pair of speakers Mark and Mark. I bet right now you are making jokes in your head of Marky Mark and the funky bunch, but that is ok so am I. Actually the presentation was given by Mark Dunn, who brought along a co-pilot (Mark Berry), so it was a power packed evening. The topic was Biztalk which could be a blog in itself, but it was a great introduction to a new technology. They covered some material on setting up XSD’s and how you could use them in Biztalk, then showed us how easy it was to convert them with the built in tool of BizTalk. The showed how easy it is to do XSLT transformations on XML sets and how BizTalk has built in functions that can help you transform the data from one entity to the other.
I think someone invited some companies in the area to the presentation, because they had some pretty involved questions on the topic, so it was good to see those guys for the presentation. I wonder if we will see them again, you can probably guess what I think. Anyway, I hope that we will get part two of this presentation as it will actually take us into what Biztalk can do not just some of the setup. It seems like there is a good bit of interest in BizTalk in larger companies at the moment so we shall see where it goes from here.
-- Brendon Schwartz
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