April, 2005

As we all know BizTalk Server 2004 provides a great set of enabling technologies to address a number of business problems, specifically around integration and business process management, the very nature of this technology means that BizTalk is typically...

Version 2 of BizUnit is pretty close to compleation, the new version has the notion of passing state between the individual test steps plus plenty of new test steps not ony from myself but also from a number of customers and Microsoft partners. As I mentioned...

As we all know BizTalk Server 2004 provides a great set of enabling technologies to address a number of business problems, specifically around integration and business process management, the very nature of this technology means that BizTalk is typically...

Version 2 of BizUnit is pretty close to compleation, the new version has the notion of passing state between the individual test steps plus plenty of new test steps not ony from myself but also from a number of customers and Microsoft partners. As I mentioned...

This is the third of five entries talking about schema design patterns. In previous entries the Russian Doll approach and the Salami Slice approach were discussed. The Venetian Blind approach is similar to the Russian Doll approach in that they both use...

Hey, just working through the MS Course 2158A, doing these courses is a good way to tidy up loose ends and discovered the BTSAsmExt.dll = the Biztalk Assembly Viewer. This little utility allow one to see those assemblies and their components which have...

Recently I’ve have had quite a few customers asking about the processing of large interchanges, and restrictions around them. Firstly, let's make sure we're on the same page regarding what an interchange is, it's a single message that contains many individual...

ASP.NET 2.0 hasn’t put the final nail in the coffin of Frames. It does however provide some better alternatives depending on what you are trying to achieve. I googled up some comparisons of Frames, Master Pages and the ICallBackEventHandler a good...

An instance of the Biztalk MessageContext is created and stays with each message until the message leaves Biztalk. It contains properties such as RecievePortName, RecieveFileName, MessageType i.e. all the meta data for a message. If you want to modify...

Im looking at using Virtual PC with a team of BizTalk developers. The idea is to install the dev env (Server 2003, SQL Server, Visual Studio, BizTalk etc) on a virtual PC image, and then each team member uses a copy of the image to develop with. We have...

This is the second of five entries talking about schema design patters. The previous entry discussed the Russian Doll approach. In the Salami Slice approach all elements are defined globally but the type definitions are defined locally. This way other...

There’s a new Bloggers Guide out today. I missed the March release, (moving apartments, painting, laying floors etc.). There will be a May release in a couple of weeks, and I will add the new blogs that have been submitted (sorry I could not get...

This is a simple explanation of how to join together two schemas with a 1:1 relationship between them in the Biztalk Mapper. I came across this problem when I had 2 legacy csv files which needed to be merged (using a unique identifier field in each file...

I have done a heap of work with Flat Files (mostly csv) in Biztalk 2004 I collected a lot of articles from other Blogs on this which were fab I though I would centralise this info for you, again thanks goes to the fellow bloggers for posting this stuff...

I am working on a BizTalk solution which uses a schema that was hand created using XML Spy. The schema was created in such a way in which everything was globally available and when I brought it into the BizTalk editor the schema looked to have 266 root...

By Kartik Paramasivam and Raied Malhas In this document we list various reasons that might lead BizTalk to get into an Out Of Memory situation and then suggest mitigations/solutions for such conditions. 1. Introduction to BizTalk Hosts: Before discussing...

HttpOutCompleteSize This setting controls the size of the batch of messages that is returned from the HTTP send adapter. The default value for this is 5. If the buffer is not full and there are outstanding responses then the adapter will wait for 1 second...

I've been very busy as of late which you may have gathered from the distinct lack of activity on my blog, I have a whole load of things that I've been working on and I'll be blogging some of these very soon. In the mean time, in case you've...

HttpOutCompleteSize This setting controls the size of the batch of messages that is returned from the HTTP send adapter. The default value for this is 5. If the buffer is not full and there are outstanding responses then the adapter will wait for 1 second...

My name is David Messner - Welcome to my WebLog. This is the second time I've typed up my intial posting - the first time IE crashed and I lost all that I wrote. Hmmff. I guess one of my first rantings will have to be on software reliability, but I'll...