BTS 2016 Feature Pack I - Scheduling capabilities

Recently, the product team released a first feature pack for BizTalk Server 2016. Via this way, Microsoft aims to provide more agility into the release model of BizTalk Server. The feature pack contains a lot of new and interesting features, of which the new scheduling capabilities is an important one. Let's have a look at what's included!

BTS 2016 Feature Pack I - Continuous Deployment Walk-Through

Recently, the product team released a first feature pack for BizTalk Server 2016. Via this way, Microsoft aims to provide more agility into the release model of BizTalk Server. The feature pack contains a lot of new and interesting features, of which the automated deployment from VSTS is probably the most important one. This blog post contains a detailed walk-through.

Logic Apps Batching

This blog post dives into the details of how you can achieve batching with Logic Apps. Batching is still a highly demanded feature for a middle-ware layer. It's mostly introduced to reduce the performance impact on the target system or for functional purposes. Let's have a closer look.

JSON Encoder Type Bug

Since the introduction of BizTalk 2013 R2, Microsoft has supplied an out of the box JSON encoder pipeline component. I’ve used this component many times in the past, but recently ran into an issue while using this component.

5 ways to better manage DateTime in IoT solutions

Dates are always important, but in the context of IoT projects they are even more relevant. The reason for this is because IoT clients are mostly human-less terminals, machines with no understanding of time. For example, if a client application shows the end-user a wrong date, the user will sooner or later see the problem and correct it. Machines will never identify a date as being incorrect, so the problem can become endemic to your solution and go without notice for a long time.

Welcoming Alfred at Codit, our personal butler

As you might have noticed, a few months ago Codit Belgium moved to a new brand office in Zuiderpoort near the center of Ghent.Because of that, we've built an internal visitor system running on Azure.Keep on reading to learn all about it!