August, 2006

Policy Chaining This sample demonstrates how to invoke a policy from another policy by calling the Execute method of the Policy class exposed directly by the Microsoft.RuleEngine assembly.

Policy Chaining This sample demonstrates how to invoke a policy from another policy by calling the Execute method of the Policy class exposed directly by the Microsoft.RuleEngine assembly.

Inserting XML Nodes from Business Rules This sample demonstrates how to insert nodes into an XML document and set their values from a business rule by using the XmlHelper class.

Inserting XML Nodes from Business Rules This sample demonstrates how to insert nodes into an XML document and set their values from a business rule by using the XmlHelper class.

This is one of those good news, great news posts! Yesterday I found myself needing to make a vital change to one of the maps running in our "Invoice Processing" BizTalk application but I couldn't find a significant window of time when the...

"New transaction cannot enlist in the specified transaction coordinator" You can encounter same error when you using SQL Adapter. The reason is simple. You need to check two things to use DTC. 1. Configure DTC both App computer and SQL computer. 2. Make...

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I passed exam 70-235 today. The thing that stuck out most in my head about the exam was that it wasn't particularly well written. Back in my Uni days I did a subject in exam analysis. I was thinking back to some of the things covered in that course as...

As you might have guessed it I work on a lot in the XML namespace of .NET and I'm finally starting to use some of the new XmlReader features. This post will go over some of them here. And remember a wise man once said that everything can be solved with...

You are familiar with the Zombie instances in Biztalk 2004. For a background on zombies try these articles http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/bts_2004wp/html/956fd4cb-aacc-43ee-99b6-f6137a5a2914.asp http://blogs.msdn.com...

Richard Seroter has a few good recommendations here on how to diagnose the confusing "Internal SOAP Processing Failure" message you get when a call to a WebService exposed from BizTalk fails. As he mentions, it can be quite confusing and sometimes quite...

Ok, so this isn't just limited to Windows Workflow. It is relevant to any piece of code that will end up on the Visual Studio toolbox. I am building a number of custom activities and I got tired of seeing the standard cog graphic in the toolbar for each...

I had to write something up quickly the other day to speed up testing on one of our prod biztalk 2006 apps. Thought this might be useful to someone out there. This script creates File Receive Locations on Biztalk 2006 given Receive location name, port...

Any ideas yet what the WinFX Adapter Framework features in BizTalk 2006 R2 will be renamed to now that WinFX is the .NET FX 3.0? Somehow, ".NET FX 3.0 Adapter Framework" doesn't quite sound so compelling :-)

There's virtually no BizTalk-related error that's more frustrating than exposing an orchestration as a web service, trying to call it, and getting the horrific "Internal Server Error" or "Internal SOAP Processing Failure". To make it even more fun, you...

I just attended the first (of I am sure) many HiMSS conferences. I am kicking myself for not going to them sooner. I got to meet a few friends that I have been in contact with, and other fellow bloggers, well I wouldn’t call him just a blogger,...

Here are some of the changes to BRE in BizTalk 2006. Summary: Support for generic types and generic methods Support for nullable types 2 Accessing nested members of a class 4 Type Casting support 5 Invoking Static Members of a Class 6 Overriding registry...

Are you tired of having to go into the BizTalk Admin tool to terminate any suspended Orchestration instance before you want to redeploy? Scripting this task is simple using WMI. Just create a file called Terminate.vb and copy in this code: TerminateAllOrchs...

SQL Prompt by redgate software fits the bill if you are looking for a T-SQL editor that can do intellisense. I have been playing it for the past few hours and it does the job quite well. Best part is its free.. well atleast for the time being.. Check...

There are many typical scenarios in which Service Broker is the ideal solution for interactions between BizTalk and SQL Server. Last week one of our solution architects point to a scenario that he was facing with a customer. The challenge was to avoid...