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Introducing the BizTalk Server 2000 JumpStart Kit

To help you get up-to-speed on BizTalk, Microsoft has developed the BizTalk JumpStart Kit. The kit includes documentation, a sample application, and Visual Basic plug-ins to make the creation of BizTalk documents easy through the creation of BizTalk adapters. The adapters created map an XML document to a Visual Basic class. By doing this, the Visual Basic application can interact with any other system that can receive BizTalk documents. Ideally these documents will be communicating through BizTalk servers as opposed to directly between applications. Another plug-in provided is used to map a BizTalk document to a database schema. This BizTalk-to-database mapping allows for a complete end-to-end, ...