December, 2004

BizTalk 2004 has some very useful behavior around parallel execution and scope-level timeouts that it is helpful to have a good understanding of. What follows is a series of experiments & associated findings that should shed some light on this area...

BizTalk 2004 has some very useful behavior around parallel execution and scope-level timeouts that it is helpful to have a good understanding of. What follows is a series of experiments & associated findings that should shed some light on this area...

I’ve just posted an article on Modular Deployment of BizTalk Server projects. I’m using it at the moment in my current project, and it seems to work fine. Also, I picked up Scott’s book, and am about half way through it. It’s good...

Okay, I disappeared for a while. There is this crazy thing called "work" which my bosses (for those of you who are confused, Scott Woodgate is not my boss :) seem to think I need to do sometimes. Some positive news is that BizTalk 2004 SP1 should be released...

At last! Scott's book made it to press. More people have been waiting for this than for the next Harry Potter. There's four free chapters available for download. Very generous od Sams I think. (As I'm living in Sweden, I'm still waiting for it to become...

A couple of blog entries that I wanted to highlight, but I've been a bit late blogging on (blame short-sharp-"just do this project before Christmas would you?" type work). First, I'm sure you've all seen it by now, but Scott Colestock is continuing his...

A few days ago, I blogged about splitting documents . It seems that there's a bug in BizTalk that means this approach won't work. The typical pattern when defining an envelope schema is to define your repeating node as one schema, and xs:import it to...

Its coming promise me, I am not allowed to inform you the new date, however it is being thoroughly tested, ...

(Update: See the latest on the Deployment Framework here. ) It has been about three months since my initial submission to the BizTalk 2004 developer competition that I discussed here . The contents of that contest entry took a prize (woohoo!) but still...

(Update: See the latest on the Deployment Framework here. ) It has been about three months since my initial submission to the BizTalk 2004 developer competition that I discussed here . The contents of that contest entry took a prize (woohoo!) but still...

Some time ago, I published a set of proposed naming conventions for BizTalk 2004. In the interim, I’ve had a chance to see these used in a few different projects and to review them with several people -- and they have evolved & grown a fair...

I had the pleasure of presenting on BizTalk 2004 at the Heartland Developer’s Conference 2004 . The whole conference was a lot of fun, and as Kent Tegels has noted, Joe Olsen did a great job in organizing the logistics for this event – you...

Ever get someones project out of source safe (or any other way), go to deploy it and get a 'SQL exception: SQL Server does not exist or access denied' error? Go to the project properties, configuration properties, deploy, and make sure it's pointing to...

An interesting scenario came up this afternoon. I receive a bunch of different documents containing address changes, which I map to my canonical "address changes" format in the receive port. I then want to split my canonical document using an envelope...