January, 2006

Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri, and Nigel Watling announced this weekend that they are wrapping up their forthcoming book currently titled “Presenting Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-on Programming.” All three authors work in the Developer...

I was having numerous issues getting my orchestration to work, that I had published as a web service. The problem was calling it from my .net assembly. My problem was the debug processes stopped here: Internal SOAP Processing Failure

Last year a customer had a requirement to process DBF files in BizTalk. I created a custom pipeline component that saved the incoming binary stream to a physical file on the BizTalk machine and then used basic ADO.NET to parse the DBF File into an XML...

I had an interesting problem yesterday, and Google wasn’t able to find anything to help me, so I thought I’d do a post it here for the benefit of others that may experience the same thing. I had a project that built and compiled fine, but...

By way of background, let me take you way back to the proof-of-concept (POC), which is where the project I’m on had its genesis. It was a competitive situation, where various vendors were given a set of requirements and a month to deliver an ESB...

Flat file parsing in BTS2006 is pretty nice in general - you get a very specific error back in the error log if your incoming file is in the wrong format for the schema (or, put a more likely way, if you have buggered up creating the schema). However...

Here's a braindump that I did for people with 2004 experience who are moving across to 2006. It's just a very quick run through some of the new bits and pieces to look out for. It's not complete, but it might be handy as the 50,000 ft view. It's also...

Today's tip is brought to you via the BizTalk 2006 Deep Dive training course that I'm on, run by Alan Smith of the Bloggers' Guide to BizTalk fame.. In BizTalk 2004, if you wanted to create an empty output element in your target document via the mapper...

Hi all. Hope everyone watched as the Seahawks pummelled the Carolina Panthers yesterday. For our remote team members out in Charlotte ... ouch ... 6 total yards in the first quarter ... ouch (I know it hurt Brian :). However, on a positive note, the Biztalk...

Exposing BizTalk interfaces as webservices is very easy using the ‘BizTalk Webservice Publishing Tool’. In almost all cases this tool generates a correct functioning web service which does not need any code modification. However, there are situations...

I am working on a 56 processor (yes, that was FIFTY SIX PROCESSOR) BizTalk project for a very large company in the Bay area. As far as I know this is the largest BizTalk project on the go right now on the planet. I’m going to start blogging about...

Tip: temporarily commenting out chunks of an orchestration Some of you will read this and say “doh, isn’t that obvious to everyone?”. Others will smack their foreheads and say “hey, what a cool tip”. So, to half of you: sorry...

I've been tracking the CCR internally within Microsoft for a while now, and now there's an interesting channel 9 interview with the CCR guys: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=143582 if you've ever done any amount of concurrent...

I've been tracking the CCR internally within Microsoft for a while now, and now there's an interesting channel 9 interview with the CCR guys: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=143582 if you've ever done any amount of concurrent programming...

What I am about to describe will not be new to a lot of you, in fact BizTalk Bill suggested this technique a users group meeting. The fact is, that before Christmas I could find no documentation on it in my usual trawling of the blogosphere to see if...

I just got the MSDN in the snail mail box and was reading this morning about the new Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF). There is a strong similarity with Biztalk in regards to the Workflow part of BizTalk. There are some other comments about this comparison...

Do you want to join Microsoft? Would you like to help to shape and build the next generation of BizTalk Server? The BizTalk product group is looking for talented individuals to help build the next generation of the product. If you're interested or...

Do you want to join Microsoft? Would you like to help to shape and build the next generation of BizTalk Server? The BizTalk product group is looking for talented individuals to help build the next generation of the product. If you're interested or want...

I am interested in anyone's experience with writing a transactional adapter using the base adapter as a foundation. More specifically anyone who has used the Pathfinder sample transactional adapter as a basis for development. Comments?

We are currently experiencing a bit of pain at my current client trying to configure BizTalk 2006 in a multiserver environment. The Active Directory configuration that this installation must adhere to consists of two forests . One of these contains all...