January, 2007

Lee, from the BizTalk product team at Microsoft, literally warns you against fiddling with the BizTalk MessageBox. :) Pun apart, he gives you some DOs and DON'Ts about the MessageBox and SQL Server. Check it out here ... http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_core_engine...

Here is an article by Saravana Kumar on "Understanding Design-Time Properties for Custom Pipeline Components" available on Microsoft Download Center. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8c2572a2-fb61-4016-a7a7-1c37518b39ff&displaylang...

A buddy of mine asked me this morning how to do debatching with the SQL Adapter.  While I fully understand XML and flat file debatching, the SQL Adapter uses a generated XSD schema, and I wasn’t 110% sure of the best way to handle that. ...

Last Saturday we had a one day event called Middleware Mania 2007 at BDotNet ( http://groups.msn.com/BDOTNET ), India's largest and most active .NET user group in Bangalore with 8750+ members. Held in one of Microsoft's building, which received...

Recently I been involved in building variety of Biztalk pipeline components with different design-time properties ranging from simple "string" to "complex collections". I struggled a bit to figure out the ways to do it, due to poor error description you...

I spent a bit of time digging into how BizTalk handles various orchestration exceptions and what to expect when resuming suspended orchestrations.  Here are a few results. First off, I created a simple orchestration that calls out to an external...

I would like to mention that there is a great book available about BizTalk 2006. It is called “ BizTalk 2006 Recipes ”, published by Apress and written by Mark Beckner, Ben Goeltz, Brandon Gross, Brennan O’Reilly, Stephen Roger, Mark Smith and Alexander...

Mick Badran tagged me . I've been procrastinating doing this, but i'm scared that i might bring an evil pox on myself if i break the sacred chain...or some such hokey pokey. The idea is that i reveal 5 things about myself and then tag 5 other...

When trying to redeploy a BizTalk 2004 solution I received the following error message: "Some items in the removed assembly are still being used by items not defined in the same assembly, thus removal of the assembly failed. Make sure that items in the...

Is there a BizTalk Server 2006 orchestration in your future? This post is a modest attempt to catalog some of the many useful tidbits of information out on the web. It will evolve over time. Legend blog = blog post core = BizTalk Server 2006 core documentation...

Log in to listen to where the CHF is going on the 01/16/07 10:00am - 11:30 PST: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032320968&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

I nstant M essage, U ser A ssistance, B iz T alk S erver. So it's closing out on the end of the day and for whatever reason my brain activity kicks up a notch. This happens every day between 5-7 and good or bad, ideas happen. This one could bomb,...

Welcome to my blog. My name is Martijn Hoogendoorn, I work for the Dutch Services dvision of Microsoft and will be posting my technical adventures on here. I've been blogging for some time now; previous posts can be found here (archive only).

We have published new Line of Business Adapter Walkthroughs. They are available on MSDN here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/aa937652.aspx Using an Oracle System Executing an Oracle Sample Query Using a PeopleSoft System Executing a PeopleSoft...

Today's my last day here at Microsoft, and as of now, this blog is locked down. But, my BizTalk party will continue over at http://seroter.wordpress.com . Thanks to all who have contributed, and see you on the other side. Technorati tags: BizTalk

A new whitepaper Understanding Design-Time Properties for Custom Pipeline Components in BizTalk Server is available here . From the blurb: This article explores the details of designing and building Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2004 and BizTalk Server 2006...

Recently I've read the AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol specification http://www.amqp.org/ ). Obviously this is the different protocol level then BizTalk messaging system but... The AMQP specification let me get some thoughts. And take in mind...

Welcome to my blog. My name is Martijn Hoogendoorn, I work for the Dutch Services dvision of Microsoft and will be posting my technical adventures on here. I've been blogging for some time now; previous posts can be found here (archive only).

The Connected Systems Division and the BizTalk team are looking for great people to help build the next generation end-to-end application platform. We have several open positions and many exciting job opportunities. If you or someone you know is interested...

This question has come up a lot in internal and external discussions. It got to the point where we had to put out a KB article as so many DBAs out there thought that it was okay to go and "tweak" the settings ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb...