I was very excited to find this book on the shelf. SOA Patterns with Biztalk Server 2009. Consuming and exposing WebServices(ASMX)  and WCF was a bit tricky with the earlier versions of Biztalk, unless you wrote your own custom WS adapater [thanks to codeplex].

Going through the book I found most of the chapters covered WCF and Integration with Biztalk...thats a bit unimpressive when you can imagine the power of Integration with SOA Services..The Enterprise Service Bus Model was not covered in depth. Nonetheless its a good book to read off the shelf.

Intelligent Mapper

• Enhanced user interface for better visualization of maps and to support complex mappings
• Background noise reduction using highlight propagation, auto scrolling  and sibling coalescing
• Support for search
• Reusable parts for improved user productivity
• Enhancements to the current functoids

Eagerly waiting for the 2009R2 bits!!