Chapter 3. BizTalk Development Guidelines

This chapter will cover various best practice guidelines to follow when creating BizTalk solutions. Some will be abstract principles and others will be specific techniques. All will contain what I believe are ample justifications that I hope will convince you of their validity. Everything covered here is implemented in the second part of the book, but this chapter gives you the reasoning and the theory behind it.

This chapter covers the following:

  • Determining where to place different types of logic
  • Isolating our solutions
  • Orchestration best practices
  • Pipelines and pipeline components

Core guidance

This section contains core guidance principles for BizTalk best practices. Most of these will be a little on the ...

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