August, 2004

Finally submitted my entry to the BizTalk Server contest . Curious? I created a transactional .NET adapter. This adapter allows you to submit messages to any .NET component that implements a certain interface, in a transactional manner. This means that...

A lot has been said regarding the MSMQT adapter for BizTalk 2004 already, but below are a few recent observations that may be of help to you. When people ask me what MSMQT is, my short answer goes something like this: "MSMQT is the name of the BizTalk...

Overview We had a customer scenario such that when a complex business process was executed at the rate of 1 request per second the CPU utilization of the SQL Server hosting the master message box quickly grew up to 100% sustained. Having the master message...

I suppose I should give a little background on myself before I start blogging to give my posts some context. Before Microsoft I was designing and developing parts of foreign exchange transaction systems for Reuters. I started at Microsoft about 7 years...

For those of you who haven't noticed yet: Dare Obasanjo has published a refined version of the work David Orchard did about a year ago. Doing so, Dare explains best practices in designing an extensible xml schema. Writing schemas that are both forward...

As I suppose not everyone reading my blog is reading the newsgroups on a daily basis, here's a highlight. Today, a question came up regarding the querying of the MSBTS_MessageInstance class. Let's summarise what is possible with this WMI class: Retreiving...

Owen found a bug today in the custom party resolution SDK pipeline component located in @ $:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004\SDK\Samples\Pipelines\CustomPartyResolution. The bug is in the Read() method in the PartyResolutionStream class: public...

So where do subscriptions come from or more importantly when do they appear. As we described in our earlier post, there are two types of subscriptions, activation subscriptions and instance (correlation) subscriptions. All activation subscriptions are...