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Summary: A touch too descriptive
Review: The book gives a good introduction to BizTalk and the technology involved. But it is a bit too descriptive and not suited for people like me who would want to get our hands dirty by coding. The book also does not deal much with C# and how to use C# to customize the mapper, etc.
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Summary: A touch too descriptive
Review: The book gives a good introduction to BizTalk and the technology involved. But it is a bit too descriptive and not suited for people like me who would want to get our hands dirty by coding. The book also does not deal much with C# and how to use C# to customize the mapper, etc.
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Summary: BRILLIANT piece of work!
Review: There are few books that I've had my hands in the last 30 years of computing that cover their appointed role as clearly, to-the-point, as indepth, and accurately as Professional BizTalk.Stephen and Scott have really assembled a superb collection of wisdom about this bold new product from Microsoft. It provides me counless examples but importanly explains in detail the intimidating teminology associated with BizTalk Server 2000 and the EAI/EDI industry in general. GREAT BOOK!
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Summary: Great Bookm however too Verbose
Review: This book has good content and would be worthy of 5 stars if it were not so wordy. I found myself reading the same thing over and over on different pages just worded different. Its like the authors were told they needed 600 pages so they made long sentences and repeated themselves over and over again. However after you filter out the nonsense the book does cover Biztalk very well. Therefore I would still recommend purchasing it. The authors know there stuff and it helped me on my project big time.
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Summary: As good as there is
Review: This book has lots of useful technical information and the authors know their subject well. The book however, isn't well suited for those of us who like learning by hands-on examples and/or appreciate the quick start approach. Though Biztalk is a messaging product, I'm on chapter 5, page 256, and the authors haven't yet used an example that has sent a single message. So far the book is based on one main example that attemps to cover too many points. Unfortunately the example has typos and doesn't compile - even using the downloaded code. It would be much more effective to start with a couple of "Hello World" like examples to quickly illustrate the product functionality.
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Summary: Somewhat useful but frustrating
Review: This book has lots of useful technical information and the authors know their subject well. The book however, isn't well suited for those of us who like learning by hands-on examples and/or appreciate the quick start approach. Though Biztalk is a messaging product, I'm on chapter 5, page 256, and the authors haven't yet used an example that has sent a single message. So far the book is based on one main example that attemps to cover too many points. Unfortunately the example has typos and doesn't compile - even using the downloaded code. It would be much more effective to start with a couple of "Hello World" like examples to quickly illustrate the product functionality.
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Summary: A Must - Have for Biztalk developer
Review: This book is very informative, and complete on most core and advanced features offered by Biztalk. The sample codes work, and provide a very good guide to start on your own. The contents may not be very well organized, that's the only weakness I can think of. but, you really want this book for its information. By the way, currently that's the only Biztalk book that cover Orchestration.
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Summary: Solid examples, lots of details, inside scoop
Review: This is a an excellent primer/reference on Biztalk Server 2000 for developers new/old to B2B and EAI. The examples they use in the book are consistent and realistic; the explanations clear and thorough. One of the things I liked the most about this book is that the authors were not afraid to pop the hood open and show you the gory guts of the engine inside (i.e. their section on writing your own functoids is very cool, as well as routing, custom parsing and serializing). If you already know Biztalk and have worked with it since it was in beta (like I have), you'll still find lots of valuable nuggets of information and "here's why they did it this way" explanations. enjoy it, I sure did. -jason chahin, co-author "COM/DCOM Unleashed"
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Summary: good reference book on biztalk
Review: unlike other books that has Biztalk in their titles, this one actually talks about implementation of biztalk. I actually went to the Microsoft Training which was hosted by Scott Woodgate(one of the authors of the book), The book covers a lot of stuff taught in that training session. It is a good reference book on biztalk.
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