February, 2006

Let’s start from the end, after all ordering of posts on a blog make it natural. Please, notice that this post is rather for people starting writing COM, veterans would find it pretty evident. On another hand, remembering all the small details may be...

Wouldn’t it be nice to open an InfoPath form from another form, and “jump” to a particular row in the database that is being referenced? That was my question, and it took some questioning, searching, etc to get the answer. (Thanks to http://www.infopathdev...

BizTalk 2004: Orchestration: Relationship of Receive port shape and Receive shape, Send port shape and Send shape I don't know would it be useful for somebody... I'm constantly trying to understand the rules for different BizTalk tools. For example, BizTalk...

Quite often you come across situations in BizTalk, where you receive a message that contains hundreds of records, when you are actually interested only in a subset of those records that match a certain criteria and want to create a message that contains...

Lately I tried to redeploy a BizTalk 2006 solution from Visual Studio 2005. Unfortunately I was confronted with the following error message “Could not change the bindings for orchestration '.', Version=1.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c380e04620d206e8...

Below is an example using the new POP3 and Sharepoint Adapters (Sharepoint Adapter now out of the box) for BizTalk 2006. This example demonstrates the following: 1) Processing binary documents in BizTalk. 2) A method to process multiple attachments in...

For those of you who like to manipulate data in the expression editor, there are a few things that can be done: 1. You can build a C# or VB.NET assembly that will take a string and manipulate it returning the correctly formatted string 2. You can use...

am not sure if I am the only one who has this problem, but everytime I set up an instance of BTS on a new machine, I am gun shy about how to set up SharePoint Services (WSS). I know that if I go thru the installation of Biztalk and accept the defaults...

It's so annoying to look for HRESULT codes... I remember some, but not all. So, why not to list them here? At least they will be easy to find. Well, actually it's easy in VS too -- the codes are declared in WinError.h, it's just it is never opened and...

So we have been talking about seamless upgrade. Following are the operations setup performs in order to ease the upgrade pain. Basically, the whole process of upgrading from BizTalk Server 2004 to BizTalk Server 2006 is divided in four steps: Checking...

REGDB_E_KEYMISSING 0x80040152 Could not find the key in the registry REGDB_E_INVALIDVALUE 0x80040153 Invalid value for registry REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG 0x80040154 Class not registered REGDB_E_IIDNOTREG 0x80040155 Interface not registered REGDB_E_BADTHREADINGMODEL...

I have been at a few client sites that had required that we use cusom namespaces for their HL7 interfaces. This is all well and good, but what is not mentioned is that you have to have the BTHL72XCommon project deployed, because the acellerator absolutely...

How's that for a title? The driver for this post is that I'm training a lot of folks right now on using WF to build workflows, and when we cover correlation, the example we use has two branches in a parallel activity where we correlate within each branch...

Of late I have been doing alot of work on NUnit, a popular open source Unit Testing framework. The area in which I have spent the most time is extending the available Assert models to accomplish new things. Today I finished and have sent in to be merged...

Here is some content I am publishing on static vs dynamic design time adapters. There seems to be some confusion on documentation I have seen with respect to what exactly are we referring to when we mention "static" and "dynamic" in the context of design...

When defining objects in the Excel BAM workbook, it allows for spaces. However, you cannot reference those spaced names in orchestrations, you must use the Name, not the DisplayName. Here is the rule that will load it successfully into the BAM tables...

Here is the list of changes that need to take place if you are having issues either in validating or deploying the WPC schemas. Click below… 1. Stop the HIPAA Service 2. Delete all files (normally the .wrk and .eif files) in this directory C:\Documents...

Many a client has requested to have custom filenames using the HIPAA_EDI adapter. I originally planned on using a custom ASM pipeline component and setting the ghost port to batching, and within the orchestration setting the RecievedFileName. Found out...

While at a client site, I came across an installation error I had not come across. At the last part of the configuration of the installation of BTS 2004, an error came up stating ‘Failed to Create Master Secret’ and the only options were to Retry or Cancel...

See attached file for a sample on how to use DelayedFileSystemWatcher class described in my previous post FileSystemWatcher generates duplicate events - How to workaround