November, 2004

Let's go over some of the out-of-the-box options for executing a pipeline from inside your orchestration. It struck my mind first that the MSMQT adapter IS in fact the messagebox. MSMQT Set up a schedule with 1 MSMQT send port and 1 MSMQT receive port...

The isolation setting is fixed and is SERIALIZABLE. So beware that even your most basic receive locations that only execute those very simple SQL statements such as 'select * from tablename' can generate locks. BTW, this is a general misconception: usually...

Charles Young has a great post on transactions within orchestrations. In it he mentions the Batch property of the ATOMIC scope. I concur with him that the documentation on this is very light, as well as any information out in the communities. Doing a...

I've held off posting on the WSDL-first approach so far because I've been waiting for the tools to arrive to make my gripes go away. Well, I'm still waiting... and waiting... In the BizTalk world, we already have a Service Oriented mindset. We communicate...

I've just found out the hard way that GAC'ed publisher policy assemblies do not chain. When you have a policy.1.0, redirecting the binding of assembly v1.0.0.0 to assembly v1.1.0.0 and also having a policy.1.1, for redirecting the binding of assembly...

I’ve watched several times Jurgen Willis’ excellent online presentation about the Business Rule Engine (BRE). One of the BRE usage scenarios demoed by him contains a sample orchestration that uses the BRE to dynamically configure a delay time. This confused...

I've been using the A4Swift (v2.1) accelerator a lot recently, which I have to say is extremely good. Around this I though it worth sharing a tip with you all that has caused me some pain on two occasions recently!! Depending on your scenario, the issue...

My tool… Development continues, a little slowly as I am busy… my time is never my own, with several critical ...

Ok, sorry for the short hiatus….very busy times on my current project. Anyway, I previously mentioned some points around deployment. It turns out that using BTS Installer doesn’t work well when utilizing roles and parties. This doesn’t...

I was chatting to my colleague Charles Young earlier today and it reminded me of an idea that I had a while back. Wouldn't it be nice if, instead of having expression shapes (and the awful expression editor window ;-) ), we instead had an ASP.NET-like...

Due to several reasons (priority shifts...), it's a while ago I blogged here. To eliminate all doubts: I'm still alive and still open to all BizTalk/XML/SOA related questions and discussions :-) I'm also glad to announce that tomorrow I'll join Microsoft...

Things I like to see in my MSN window #1: "Can you get up to TVP? Halo 2 team are here and we're playing." WOOHOO! Just had a 6 minute deathmatch round against the UK XBox team. We lost about 50-20, which is pretty shabby, but I did manage to score a...

I've been using the A4Swift (v2.1) accelerator a lot recently, which I have to say is extremely good. Around this I though it worth sharing a tip with you all that has caused me some pain on two occasions recently!! Depending on your scenario, the...