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BizTalk Server 2009 comes with support for MSBuild. The question is, how can we use it, and how does it help us? The obvious advantage is of course, that this enables Visual Studio BizTalk projects to be deployed to the production environment without...

I am pleased once again to be asked to present in Sweden by the Sweden BizTalk Server Users Group.  This event is the “BizTalk Server 2010 Release Party” and will feature content and topics from my soon to be released book: Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform . This is much more than just a simple presentation.  This is a 2-day EVENT packed with great content from multiple speakers.  I will be presenting alongside fellow co-authors Richard Seroter and Ewan Fairweather...

This is actually a step by step tutorial on how to enable batching for outbound EDI transactions, where the input file needs to be split up from one single message but creating multiple transactions. In my case I am going to take an invoice process. I...

Today Microsoft has released the Beta for BizTalk Server 2009 to the public. It is available on Microsoft's Connect site at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218 This beta will be community supported though the Microsoft TechNet forums here . Some of the key enhancements to BizTalk 2009 is support for the latest Microsoft offerings (including Windows 2008, Visual Studios 2008 SP1, .Net 3.5 SP1, SQL 2008, and TFS), support for RFID Mobile, and new LOB Adapters (including...

With the release of BizTalk 2006 Beta just around the corner, why not get a head start by seeing how to call a Receive Pipeline from within an Orchestration. For starter, why would you want to call a Receive Pipeline from within an Orchestration? I had to struggle for a bit to come up with a good reason… I can find it useful in debatching Scenarios that require mapping prior to debatching or for debatching into smaller batches using a map. I could also find it useful when working with flat...

Make sure you check out the video content on Workflow 4.0 available at BizTalkGurus.com: Consuming WCF Services in Workflow 4.0 Flowcharts and Rules in Workflow 4.0 Windows Workflow 4.0 is a major upgrade to the existing Microsoft workflow technology. As part of this upgrade, the designer has been enhanced to account for new features and increase the developer experience. Below is a screen shot of a basic sequential workflow. A cool feature, that is not shown here, is the dynamically changing gray...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] BizTalk 2006 R2 ships with WCF adapters and pre-configured settings for common bindings - basicHttp and wsHttp being typically used for SOAP messaging. With a static port you can use the WCF-Custom adapter...

Let this go down in the record books… that today marks the First Annual Celebration of International Check Your Enterprise Single Sign-On Master Secret Key Day ! Picture this, it is 2 AM and you are sound asleep.  All of a sudden your work pager goes off.  The datacenter is flooded (why they had a datacenter in the basement is a whole other story) and you lost the Master BizTalk Server.  The power went off and backup initially failed so all the servers restarted.  Your other BizTalk...

Congratulations to Brett Tyrrell from Australia via Facebook and Mike Koerner (@michaelskoerner) from USA via Twitter for winning the BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Integration books from Packet Publishing. Watch for more great opportunities from BizTalkGurus.com in the new future.

Dependent Drop Downs, Cascading Drop Downs, Filtered Drop Downs. Whatever you want to call them, this is where you have a secondary drop down list filtered based on the choice from the primary drop down list. For example: select a country and you get...

In the past, I have tended to focus on sequential convoys. Now, I decided to take a look at Concurrent Convoys. First off, I was sure in older versions of the documentation they were called Parallel Convoys? Maybe I’m mistaken or maybe the name changed over the past few months…. In any case, I will get with the times and call them Concurrent Convoys. No matter what you call them, the power and usefulness of this type of convoy is the same. Why use Concurrent Convoys? Concurrent convoys...

Like I have done with many of the other new BizTalk books I have two copies of the new BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration book by Kent Weare et al. published by Packt to give away. Not to worry, I will cover all shipping costs. To enter: Either LIKE BizTalkGurus on Facebook or FOLLOW BizTalkGurus on Twitter. I will pick one winner from each site to win a free copy of the book. If you already like or follow us you are automatically entered to win! You must enter by end of day August...

Due to popular demand I’ve created another sample of how you can make use of the jQuery Javascript library in your SharePoint sites. This example uses SharePoint’s Lists.asmx web service to retrieve all the list items of a specific list. In my previous...

A few months ago Kent Brown and I presented on Dublin (the new enhancements to Windows for Workflow Hosting, Monitoring, and Tracking) at the 2009 SOA and Business Process Conference in Seattle Washington. This session was recorded and is now online.  You can view this video here: http://soaconference2009.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FA6FC7F5DB1C07!135.entry The abstract for the session is below. Abstract:  Dublin is the code name for the new Windows Application Server features inside Windows...

I’m back in the action again working on a large BizTalk Healthcare project after some time off. This is the first time I’ve worked with HIPAA transactions like 270, 271, and others and so far I have learned a lot. Like other projects I have worked on in the past, one of the first things I do is create projects and namespaces for the new code we have to build. This is usually something you did not have to put much thought into.  But with transactions like 270 I went to make a namespace like BizTalk...