First post

There are lots of interesting stuff happening right now! Primarily I'm thinking about BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and .NET Framework 3.0 which was both announced last week. Therefore I felt that this was a great time start blogging, lots of news to keep the interest up (both for me and for any readers).

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will improve several areas of BizTalk, among those are built-in support for EDI/AS2 and RFID. Current version has a Base EDI adapter but the new functionality will provide a more complete implementation. Read more at https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jun06/06-06EtEBusinessProcessPR.mspx.

.NET Framework 3.0 was announced on Friday at https://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/06/09/624300.aspx, the poster is the Corporate VP of the Microsoft Developer Division. In short Microsoft has decided to offically name what was previously called WinFX to .NET Framework 3.0. WinFX consists of technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF, previously Avalon), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF, previously Indigo), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and the components from .NET Framework 2.0 (CLR 2.0, ADO.NET, etc.).

I'm sure both of these are topic to revisit in coming weeks and months.