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The BizTalk Product team has released the product documentation in PDF format (> 8000 Pages)!! The package contains the following PDF files:

• Getting Started (506 pages)
• Planning and Architecture (1,056 pages)
• Security and Protection (60 pages)
• Development (2,098 pages)
• Deployment (149 pages)
• Operations (1,950 pages)
• Business Process Management (703 pages)
• Troubleshooting (133 pages)
• Technical Reference (2,100 pages)

See Luke Nyswonger's Post for more information:
http://blogs.msdn.com/luke/archive/2006/04/19/579289.aspx

Or download directly here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8F3EC693-2865-4B85-8455-745511EA4267&displaylang=en

New Features of BizTalk Server 2006

Kris Horrocks introduces some of the new features of BizTalk Server 2006. See demos of the all new BizTalk Administration Console and Group Hub Page, as well as technical demonstrations of new core engine features like recoverable interchanges and end-to-end ordered message delivery.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060309BizTalkKH/manifest.xml

Microsoft has released a whole heap web casts for SQL Server 2005:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/eval/webcast.mspx?wt.mc_id=SQL.AD.01072

Are you programming in VB.NET 2.0?

Are you missing the refactoring function that C# 2.0 offers in Visual Studio 2005?

I know that I was really looking forward to this function when finally moving to VS2005 and was very disappointed when the VS development team was forced to remove it from the first realease of VS 2005 due to time constraints.

WELL, Developer Express Inc has now released a free add-on for VB.NET 2.0 that should offer similar functionality to the C# one.

Get it from here today:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/tools/refactor/