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In a previous post I showed how to unit test an ASP.NET WebAPI Controller. But with a REST service there is both a client and a service component. Assuming for a moment the client part is also written in C# we should test that as well. In this case the client application contains the following class to load books from the REST WebAPI controller: 1: public class BooksClient 2: { 3: private readonly HttpClient _httpClient; 4:   5: public BooksClient(HttpClient httpClient) 6: { 7: _httpClient ...

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Hello to the BizTalk community ! The last time I updated that blog to provide a new version of MBV is far but it took me a while to update MBV for BizTalk 2013 and collect ideas of new queries and rules to add. For your information, a first version of MBV 13 is already provided in the support Tools folder of BizTalk 2013 ! I worked indeed with my US peers (a big thank to Mike Shea who is BizTalk Escalation Engineer in US) to produce that new version and we collaborated with the BizTalk Product group...

Under certain stress conditions (such as clients accessing SQL Server from the same computer), the SQL Server Shared Memory protocol may lower BizTalk Server performance. You can resolve this problem by disabling the use of the Shared Memory network protocol in SQL Server Network Configuration. Also, to facilitate transactions between SQL Server and BizTalk Server, […] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Yesterday I talked about a bug which prevented me to complete the authorization grant flow with Azure AD. It turn out the bug is only exposed when using Azure Management Portal for Relying party registration. In this post, I’ll use Graph Explorer to do the registration which works fine. My scenario is to create a […] Blog Post by: zamd

BizTalk 2013 is out, but this is obviously old news for most of you. With a lot of new features and support for on premises, or in the cloud, this new version seems exciting and maybe challenging… To help you overcome any potential issues and to make sure you are ready for the new version, Codit organizes a technical BizTalk launch event with 6 expert speakers!

I was playing with the Authorization code grant type recently added to Azure Active directory however there is bug in the preview implementation which prevents exchange an ‘authorization code’ with an access token. I can get the authorization code for graph api by using following url in the browser. https://login.windows.net/69383356-56dd-4e78-a18e-a4ff5450c995/oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=9f030b74-1ec1-4b6b-8911-f4e6e465ff9d&resource=https://graph.windows.net&api-version...

In this section you’ll install BizTalk Server, confirm that the installation succeeded, and then configure BizTalk Server. When you installed SQL Server, setup granted your account Database Administrator rights. Since these rights are also required for installing BizTalk Server, you must do one of the following: Use the same account you used when you installed […] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

A customer was setting up Log Shipping disaster recovery for their BizTalk Server 2006 R2 environment. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560961(v=bts.20).aspx They had gotten to the step where they run the stored procedure bts_ConfigureBizTalkLogShipping. They received the error "Msg 2601, Level 14, State 1, Procedure bts_ImportSQLAgentJobs, Line 56 Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.bts_LogShippingJobs' with unique index 'CIX_LogShippingJobs'." It...

A new Getting Started Tutorial for Workflow Manager 1.0 has been posted here: Workflow Manager 1.0 Getting Started Tutorial This is a 3 step tutorial which covers creating a custom activity, using it in a workflow, and publishing and invoking the workflow. It covers the use of the HttpSend activity, several of the DynamicValue activities, and also includes troubleshooting steps for common issues related to authoring, publishing, and invoking workflows. There is also a video walkthrough and a download...

If your BizTalk Server environment uses SQL Server 2012 and you wish to configure BAM Alerts, you must have already configured SQL Server Database Mail feature before you try to configure BAM Alerts, otherwise the BizTalk Basic configuration will ignore this feature (BAM Alerts). Database Mail is an enterprise solution for sending e-mail messages from […] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

I was trying to get the new workflow engine installed and configured with SharePoint 2013 but was encountering an error in the Service Bus configuration step. Installation Instruction for Workflow Manager and SharePoint 2013 Workflow Configuration: The full installation steps are provided here (in a video series): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn201724.aspx and here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj193478 The instructions provided above are pretty detailed [...] Blog Post...

BizTalk Server provides the capability to specify a business process and also a mechanism by which the applications used in that business process can communicate with each other. SQL Server is the main repository for this communication mechanism. For optimal performance, Microsoft recommends using the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server. Note: Using SQL Server Express […] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

A client ask me to create a wiki about BizTalk errors and how to clear it. A quick search on your favorite search engine give me a great technet article. I share it with you because it covers a lot of errors and the explanations are efficients http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7204.biztalk-list-of-errors-and-warnings-causes-and-solutions.aspx Don’t forget to add it in your […] Blog Post by: Jeremy Ronk

When you install the SharePoint BI stack, you need to create a PowerPivot Service application that will manage the PowerPivot workbooks via a very nice dashboard which unfortunately was empty in my Central Admin. no error, nothing in the ULS, just an empty page. To fix that, I activated the PowerPivot Administration feature in Central […] Blog Post by: sergeluca