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Search customized for Biztalk Resources
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Why biztalk 24 * 7 ?
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Biztalk 24 * 7 is an attempt by a Microsoft Biztalk server enthusiast
Saravana kumar to put pointers to all the available resources for Biztalk
under one roof. The left hand side navigations shows a glance of what you can get,
I hope you got the idea. By the time of first release in January 2007 there were
around 350 unique external BizTalk links. The site also features a special search
engine designed for searching biztalk resources (Explained in detail later) using
Windows Live Search and a special aggregator for BizTalk blogs. I'm planning to
update the site every 15 days once, or whenever I find a must have new resource.
Updates to the site will be communicated via my blog. (Subscribe:
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About Saravana Kumar
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Aggregated BizTalk Blogs
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Why another aggregator?. Over a period of time there will be new
people start blogging about BizTalk and some people tend to leave using BizTalk
(Ex: Scott Woodgate,
EldarM). Our local aggregators are not always upto date, we don't include
new feeds that often into our aggregators.
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There are few consolidated OPML files for BizTalk resources, but its not a trivial
task to override your aggregator feeds with an OPML file. In our case we know exactly
what we are targetting at, we need all the BizTalk blogs at one place. That's the
root cause for this new aggregator.
It's very simple interface, on the Left Hand Side navigation you got two options.
1. Select the duration for latest feeds, and 2.If required hide unnecessary no content
links. BizTalk blogs aggregator uses cookies, so it will remember your selection,
for your next visit. On the right hand side the select blog feeds new content within
that duration will be shown. On the top of the page you can see when it was last
polled. It also differentiates MSDN blogs with different icon
.Still if you prefer
to use only your own Aggregators, OPML file is provided for all the feeds used by
Biztalk 24 * 7.
Click here to go to BizTalk 24 * 7 blogs aggregator
page.
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Search Functionality
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Customized SEARCH Functionality for BizTalk resources is one of the key aspects
of BizTalk 24 * 7. We take advantage of Windows Live Search targeting BizTalk resources.The
search will be performed on the BizTalk specific resources and organized seperately
in different tabs as shown below.

Here is an example of how it will be helpful. In the search box above enter the
keywords "xpath function". If you try these keywords in any of your favorite search
engines the most likely result will be something to do with XML, XSL, W3C, XPATH
reference etc. But what we were expecting here is "xpath()" BizTalk utility function
available inside orchestration. Screen shots below shows the result in different
targeted tabs. You can see clearly the very first result on the "All BizTalk Blogs"
and "MSDN BizTalk Blogs" is what we expected.
All BizTalk Blogs result:

MSDN BizTalk Blogs result:

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How resources are organised?
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Credits
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Most of the stuff in BizTalk 24 * 7 is taken from different BizTalk blogs, Microsoft
Biztalk resource centres and some community websites.
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