Jon Flanders and Aaron Skonnard wrote "Connect Enterprise Apps With Hosted BizTalk Services", an interesting technical overview of BizTalk Services and the feature set it provides today. If you are interested, this is probably the best introduction you can find. Especially relevant is the Identity/Claims configuration part, at the end.
As a BizTalk developer I have come to rely rather heavily on a variety of tools to assist with various aspects of developing, deploying, documenting and testing BizTalk solutions. The latest addition to this toolbox is the BizTalk MessageViewer HAT Plugin, referred to me by a colleague, Willem Fourie.
This little utility is a nice time-saver, allowing you to view tracked messages from within BizTalk’s Health and Activity Tracking (HAT) tool. Traditionally, if you wanted to see a tracked message from within HAT you would need to save the message to disk, and then load the message from disk. Your other option for viewing messages is to use the BizTalk Group Hub, but that is geared towards displaying messages that are suspended, and does not by default display messages that have been successfully processed. This new plug-in, available at http://www.codeplex.com/btsviewerhatplugin, hides this from you and presents you with a functional UI in which to view the message(s) selected.
The tool is very new – only having been released in its version on the 23rd of May – so there are few kinks to still work out of it, but it is nevertheless a great time saving tool, and one I will certainly be monitoring for further development, and using on a frequent basis.
I will endeavour to add more information on the tools that I use over the next few posts. What are the tools you are using?
Strange Errors andworkarounds
So, after a while, i’m back to the series. I got called out to help with another project for a few weeks so there wasnt much to write about in this space. Anyway, i’m back to the Oracle adapter project and immediately came face to face with some strange error messages and some […]
Hello Reader,
I’m still experiencing intermittent problems with biztalk247 hosting from my ISP. Most of the time things are out of my control.
Recently I been spending lot of time with the ISP customer care, they are not sure about the root cause for the problem, they promised they are putting monitoring in place to identify it.
Whenever the problem happens the fix is simple, I need to restart few of their hosting services. But its hard work to just keep an eye on the status of the server.
I enhanced my blog aggregator component this weekend to send me a notification email whenever its polling for new content. If I don’t receive the email within few hours gap I know something is not correct on the server. I hope this is just a temporary thing and doesn’t carry forever.
Moving to an different ISP is not an easy choice due to the nature of the site, but if things doesn’t improve I really don’t have much choice.
I got some really cool stuff implemented recently to improve the site, but reliability problem just scars me a bit to release it.
Keep tuned, I’ll try to sort this out ASAP. Again apologies for all the inconvenience.
Nandri!
Saravana
Is up on MSDN –
will be in the June edition of the analog magazine as well.
Check out my BizTalk
R2 Training.
Ron Jacobsis a legend. He spent a little less than a week over here in New Zealand and presented at four meetings or more every day. When it came to closing it witha golden key by presenting at the inaugural Auckland Connected Systems User Group meeting he was as active and enthusiastic as ever. […]
I’ve just had my longest vacations in the last 4 or 5 years. And it was great :-). The week started off with the MVP Summit 08 in Seattle, with several sessions about what’s coming in the Connected Systems space, namely with things like BizTalk Oslo, modeling and "D", tooling, and many an interesting thing I can’t unfortunately talk about. I’ve also had the opportunity to learn a bit more about BizTalk Services and what’s coming in that space, and do a lot of networking. This year in the Connected Systems space I had Pedro Félix as company, the recently-awarded and only Portuguese "Connected Systems Developer" MVP.
Since the Summit, BizTalk Server R3 (the "old girlfriend", as it was amusingly called at the a session) was announced by Steve Martin, and will included a set of interesting new features. Not quite a revolution, but interesting developments anyway. The BizTalk Hotrod #4 issue is out for you to check out (I especially liked the ESB Exception Management and WF Hosting in BizTalk articles).
Anyway, just wanted to ping: I’m back. 🙂
My article on “smart” use of XSLT within BizTalk appeared in BizTalk
Hotrod Issue 4. Once again, a great set of content thoughout this issue.
The article talks about the “why and how” of using a “straight”
XSLT approach with BizTalk – where your XSLT files reside directly on disk,
and not within map assemblies. It discusses caching compiled XSLTs, and using
XSLT 2.0 via the Saxon libraries. You can download the sample code and comment
over on the article’s Codeplex project.
We still have a few seats left for our upcoming Double Feature: WCF + WF events. For those new to our Double Feature offerings, the concept is simple: we cover almost two complete 4-day courses (WCF + WF) in one extended hours 5-day week. We call it the firehose methodology.
If you’re looking to ramp-up on both of these emerging Connected Systems technologies in the most efficient way possible, take a look at this offering. It’s a great way to maximize the ROI on your limited training/travel dollars, especially in today’s economy.
The next event is in Irvine on 6/16. If that doesn’t work for you, we’re also holding one in London on 7/14, another in Chicago on 8/4, and another in Waltham on 9/22. You can save yourself a seat right now without any obligation (simply click “Save a Seat“ instead of “Register Now“).
I will be teaching the Irvine course with Jon Flanders and Chicago with Matt Milner.
The presentation made available for download through this post is in swedish. The code however is "international". First of I would like to list what I think are two of the best getting started with LINQ resources available online. The free…(read more)