January, 2007

As I don’t use regular expressions that often I always forget the syntax. So I thought I just put a basic replace pattern up here. This method takes a schema, finds all places where is says schemaLocation=”whatever” in a text and...

For those of you reading who have seen or heard of my BizTalk Orchestration Wizard - it finally has a home at Codeplex. http://www.codeplex.com/PatternWizard . Please download and give suggestion and if anyone wants to submit patterns please let me know...

I am sure some of you who happen onto this blog have worked with the old Mercator or WebSphere TX product. I just spent the last few days working on upgrading a 6.7 solution to 8.1. I was amazed how I was still able to remember all of the command line...

I've recently seen a query in the "Biztalk New Users" newsgroup someone asking the above question. I quickly did a search to find out if there is (are) a decent article out there explaining the difference and didn't find any. I feel its quite important...

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Back in March 2006 I had the pleasure of blogging about the great job that Decillion (a local Australian Partner) did on their BizTalk / SWIFT Accelerator implementation at BNP Paribas here in Australia. Well it appears they have done it again - this...

This would be a real tragedy. Our thoughts and prays are with Jim and his family.

Do you have any questions about BizTalk Server that you have been itching to ask but haven't? Post them here or send them to me v/o this blog and I will try to chase down an answer. Here are a few disclaimers/rules/humorous asides: No existential...

So, I have been trying to write a tool to manage addition/updates to configuration file like SomeApp.exe.config. This involves reading and writing to configuration files. Using XML DOM is too low level when 2.0 provides System.Configuration namespace...

Do you have any questions about BizTalk Server that you have been itching to ask but haven't? Post them here or send them to me v/o this blog and I will try to chase down an answer. Here are a few disclaimers/rules/humorous asides: No existential questions...

Hi All, I heard the word AJAX a lot and wondered what it could be….so, here is the answers to my search! Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, or its acronym Ajax, is a Web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is...

Adding to list of recent releases on Windows Workflow Foundations, we now have a new set of downloads available from Microsoft this January as below: 1. Go-Live License to install .net framework 3.0 RC1 2. You may wish to read the associated README which...

I am trying to gauge some interest from you all - as I want to get COVAST to run an updated webcast session for me on their product called the COVAST MAP Accelerator for BizTalk Server . This product allows customers who have existing investments in other...

The W3C folks are not sleeping. The Semantic Annotations for WSDL and Xml Schema specification is now a W3C candidate recommendation !!...( read more )

I don't normally do this but Nat's post on Professor Edward A. Lee piece about The Problem With Threads drew a response from me straight away. The comment I made on the post was never approved so I thought it was worth sharing here. I Wrote... In the...

So I see today that BizTalk Server (among many other applications) is affected by the whole screwy US Daylight Savings change for 2007. Specifically for BizTalk, you’ll find the statement “Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006: Final update will be...

Here is the presentation I gave at this past weekend's code camp I have the presentation in Power Point 2003 and for whatever reason Power Point 2007 does not work via download from the web. Through my contacts page, I will email you the demo's I showed...

Well after a hour of editing I am pretty sure that I am about to release the first video in the world of the Windows Vista Launch. Unfortunately I haven't got any music in there as I don't want to get sued ;) It's your now on youtube... thanks everyone...

Wow... what a ride! Darryl and I have been humming and we got there with some kick ass sidebar gadgets for NZ! Thanks to everyone involved. If you have Vista try them for yourself if not watch this little video I just put together! ENJOY Coverage so far...

A recent question was asked me as follows: How to change the Segment Terminator in the HIPAA 837 schema to ‘~’ (tilt)? I think in my schema currently I have CF/LF. I need to change that to ‘~’. Currently my output comes like this. ISA*00* *00* *ZZ*1234567...