May, 2006

If you have installed BAM (BizTalk Server 2004 or BizTalk Server 2006), you may have noticed that a web service called the "BAM Query Service" got installed. As its name hints, this web service allows the BAM Portal to retrieve BAM instance...

If you have installed BAM (BizTalk Server 2004 or BizTalk Server 2006), you may have noticed that a web service called the "BAM Query Service" got installed. As its name hints, this web service allows the BAM Portal to retrieve BAM instance data without...

Enterprise Library 2.0 was released early this year. The library consists of several application blocks for so called enterprise level applications; logging, data access, security, configuration, exception handling, and so on. BizTalk Server 2006 provides...

Enterprise Library 2.0 was released early this year. The library consists of several application blocks for so called enterprise level applications; logging, data access, security, configuration, exception handling, and so on. BizTalk Server 2006 provides...

First thing you need to do is to make sure that IIS's security is not going to be blocking your calls to the BTSHTTPReceive.dll. To do this goto your IIS manager and click on the Web Service Extension node and right click it and 'Add a new Web Service...

Just in case you do not have them, here is the link to the: BizTalk Server 2006 Installation and Upgrade Guides…

There is a good sample of using SSO to store application configuration information. Particularly useful for BizTalk projects. http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/1/d/b1d9ddf9-88c6-4d4e-abea-4787fdc85bec/appmgmtusingsso.exe Other useful BizTalk 2006...

QuickLearn is offering a 5-day BizTalk boot camp in Redmond the week of July 17th. This class is designed for individuals who are new to BizTalk Server 2006. You can find more information at: www.quicklearn.com/bootcamp.htm There is a multi-student discount...

QuickLearn is offering a 5-day BizTalk boot camp in Redmond the week of July 17th. This class is designed for individuals who are new to BizTalk Server 2006. You can find more information at: www.quicklearn.com/bootcamp.htm There is a multi-student discount...

The BizTalk Server 2006 bindings file format is documented here , but the XSD description of the bindings file is not included in the build. If you are interested in having this XSD, you can produce it via the following command: xsd.exe "C:\Program Files...

There's nothing like more samples for BizTalk. Get them here . They include using SSO as a configuration store, atomic transactions for COM+, collerating message within orchestration instances, etc. Enjoy. -B

In one of our internal web app's developement, we were executing an console applications with certain arguments synchronously and were trying to display the results in the front-end. When we activate the process I can see the process getting kicked-off...

This article explores and sheds some light on a feature of the Microsoft Business Rules Engine which I consider to be important in understanding the semantics of rules. This is the use of ‘or’ to create a group of conditions within a rule...

I read a great article titled " Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern " written by Martin Fowler. But, as for me the interface injection pattern was a little confusing. I wrote a sample code in C# based on his article, but...

5 more BizTalk samples are live in the MSDN Web site . I wrote three of them as follows: 1) SSO as Configuration Store This sample provides an implementation of a sample class and a walkthrough that demonstrates how to use the SSO administrative utility...

I read a great article titled " Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern " written by Martin Fowler. But, as for me the interface injection pattern was a little confusing. I wrote a sample code in C# based on his...

5 more BizTalk samples are live in the MSDN Web site . I wrote three of them as follows: 1) SSO as Configuration Store This sample provides an implementation of a sample class and a walkthrough that demonstrates how to use the SSO administrative utility...

Just stumbled across this post about the UK SDC Build and Deployment Framework for MSBuild. Actually I did download the zip from GDN a while ago and didnt get to investigate in detail and Howard has listed the tasks nicely on his blog. The thing Im most...

Have you ever wanted to upgrade a version of an assembly and not have to recomplie code? One way to accomplish this is using assembly binding in your configuration file. First make sure that both the old assembly and the new one use the same strong key...

BizTalk 2004, Questions for interview without answers Standards BPEL4WS: Comparing of BizTalk 2004 and BPEL4WS Which points is the BTS Orchestration different from BPEL4WS in? Which objects in the BTS have different names from BPEL4WS? Does the link object...