You gotta love this. Its like buses. You wait for one forever and then two come along at the same time. No sooner had i finished looking through StyleCop, I happened to go over to the Visual Studio Gallery (this is different from the MSDN Code Gallery) and came across the CodeStyleEnforcer. Downloads can be […]
A friend alerted me to the fact that StyleCop (formally named Microsoft Source Analysis for C#) is now available in the public domain and can be downloaded from the MSDN Code Gallery . Its beenused as an internal tool in Microsoft for a long time.
It differs from FxCop which is targeted at compiled assemblies while […]
It’s been a while since I’ve postedsome BizTalk coding tidbit… Busy times!
I often have to set the value of an elementunder a message’s repeating node with the same value. Of course, normally you’d use a map, but what if the value isn’t in the source message? The last time I ran into this was in […]
For the next release of adapter pack, we are adding 2 new adapters — Oracle EBS and SQL. In addition, we are also enhancing support for the existing OracleDB adapter. We are planning to add support for the following:
– UDTs
– Table Types
– Boolean types
We would like to hear from you about any other specific features that you may want in OracleDB adapter. Please do let us know if you’d like to participate in the TAP program.
I had discussed the design of our integration layer in an earlier post and Stuart commented asking if we implemented the messaging layer using messaging only or if we needed to implement orchestrations. As i started writing the response, it got rather long so i decided to make it a full fledged post. So here […]
In dealing with some EDI data, I came across some data that was invalid
In a file we had a large number of COB segments that looked like this:
COB*U*1234567*01*1
There are supposed to be 3 elements in the COB, so I hacked away at it for a while and came up with this command
Find COB^*U^**^*01^*1
With COB*U*00000000000*1
(the ^* means don’t use the expression * to mean all characters, actually look for * in the data, except where it says ^**^* where there is a *, but consume all data until you find the next *)
But I was not satisfied; I wanted the value from COB02 in the result.
To consume data into a ’variable’ you use the following syntax
Find COB^*U^*^(*^)^*01^*1
With COB*U*^1*1
the ^(*^) loads whatever is between ^(^) (in this case *) into a variable, and because it is the first one, the output you specify is ^1
So in theory I could have this syntax
Find COB^*U^*^(*^)^*01^*^(*^)
With COB*U*^1*^2
The resulting output would be
COB*U*1234567*1
Next week marks the start of TechEd US in Orlando, which is always a fun conference to be at. I’ll be there, presenting a session on Friday in the SOA track: “Technical Drilldown into Microsoft’s ESB Guidance”. The SOA track is packed with great sessions, this should be a really good TechEd. If you’re going the following week to TechEd IT Pro, Allan Naim of Microsoft will be doing a session on the ESB Guidance.
Hope to see you at TechEd Developer, I’ll be there all week, hanging out, seeing old friends, and also helping out at the MSFT booth.
I guess this is the week for my articles to go online 🙂 Now my WF/WCF
integration article is on MSDN. Hope you find it helpful.
Check out my BizTalk
R2 Training.
One of our BizTalk developers had a requirement to collect related messages and send a single email summary with details about those messages. I built the example below to help her out.
In this scenario, a series of independent, but related, messages are sent to BizTalk. Each of these messages will have a “batch ID” which […]
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