Blogs

I have had a frustrating weekend trying to install the Talk Adapter Service Runtime environment on my development environment and am going to write about it here. I am following "Installing the Windows Azure BizTalk Services SDK – June 2013 Preview" and keep on getting the error below when I tried to install the BizTalk […] Blog Post by: mbrimble

I am currently involved in a project where I need to integrate Dynamics AX with a 3rd party payroll system. Dynamics AX 2012 provides a rich integration framework called Application Integration Framework or (AIF). One of the core strengths of this framework is the ability to generate a typed schema through a configuration wizard. Combine that with a AX’s ability to create inbound and outbound ports and you now have the ability to generate export(and import if interested) files rather quickly. When...

A few days ago I blogged that I had put together an unofficial update to the BizTalk PowerShell Provider. I joined up with the project on CodePlex and they put me to work quick! Tonight I checked in some updates and now we have a new release, 1.3.0.0, which works on BizTalk 2013. I will […] Blog Post by: clineer

In the past I developer a demo on “How to Call Orchestration from another project or from another BizTalk Application” that you can read here and download the source code from Code Gallery here. This demo was compose by one Visual Studio Solution with two different projects: Project1 Orch1 Schema1 Project2 Orch2 However there were […] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

I'm using this library called FakeItEasy. The more I use it the more I like it. While using it I suddenly thought: var fakeIdentity = A.Fake<IIdentity>() { Name = "foo" }; Would be so much simpler than var fakeIdentity = A.Fake<IIdentity>(); A.CallTo(() => fakeIdentity.Name).Returns("foo"); especially when it could be inlined without needing to introduce this fakeIdentity variable... BUT! Obviously it doesn't work with this syntax for various reasons, like...

This post is the fourth in a weekly series intended to briefly spotlight those things that you need to know about new features in BizTalk Server 2013. In the Support for new Adapters section of the new features list for BizTalk Server 2013, you will find a very brief note without much explanation about the […] Blog Post by: Nick Hauenstein

Reblogged from shadabanwer: While working on the BTS2013 project, I started writing unit test for Schemas and Maps. I found that unit test for maps do not work anymore with the BTS2013 upgrade. I keep on getting “Transform failure” error messages. I with the help of one of my colleague figure out actually Microsoft had […] Blog Post by: Johann

A customer asked me recently if the BizTalk business rules engine was a good place to search for repeating elements containing duplicate values in an XML message that is received on a one way BizTalk hosted WCF service and to throw an exception back to a service consumer if a duplicate is found. My initial […] Blog Post by: Johann

This week we released some great updates to Windows Azure that make it significantly easier to develop mobile applications that use the cloud. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services : Custom API support Mobile Services : Git Source Control support Mobile Services : Node.js NPM Module support Mobile Services : A .NET API via NuGet Mobile Services and Web Sites : Free 20MB SQL Database Option for Mobile Services and Web Sites Mobile Notification Hubs : Android Broadcast Push Notification Support...

Continuing my foray into the world of Azure I started playing with using my Azure VM as an ADFS server with the goal of using it as an identity provider in Windows Azure ACS for the appropriate candidate azure services. I followed the instructions on this fantastic step by step walkthrough by Haishi Bai (he […] Blog Post by: Johann

The session I presented at TechEd 2013 North American on Windows Azure IaaS and BizTalk Server 2013 is now online ! I cover the new MSDN Benefits, using BizTalk with IaaS, creating a new Azure Virtual Machine Multi-Server Domain, and review some sample scenarios that are now possible with the pay-per-hour model. I am still working on some better PowerShell scripts to automate the domain creation.  I am about 90% of the way along.  I will post them shortly when they are better optimized...

I was working on building out the BizTalk 2013 environments for a client when one of the guys in IT mentioned that the BizTalk PowerShell snap-in was not updated for working with BizTalk 2013. The CodePlex site at http://psbiztalk.codeplex.com/ mentions the currently released version only works on BizTalk 2010. So I downloaded the source and rebuilt […] Blog Post by: clineer

QuickLearn’s first TFS 2012 Configuration and Administration course to run in London has just finished and we’re happy to announce that the course scored a staggering 96% customer satisfaction rating based on the course evaluations. Our trainer also scored a perfect score of 100% for both his knowledge of TFS and his presentation ability. Our […] Blog Post by: Anthony Borton (TFS Instructor)

It’s that time again when we are announcing that the community driven event “BizTalk Innovation Event” once again will come to Norway. This year Bouvet I the main sponsor again and the webpage is already up and running and registration is officially open! We have decided to add 2 extra speakers this year, MVP Kent [...] Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl

I hit an interesting problem today while trying to RDP to my Windows Azure VM using active directory credentials where I was getting an error message stating “An authentication error has occurred. The local security authority cannot be contacted.”. This VM was connected to a domain, my domain controller also being an Azure VM. At some point I […] Blog Post by: Johann