February, 2009

Woke up now yesterday morning Sydney time (GMT+10hrs) feeling great, sunny day the beach was just glassy and really blue. What a day I thought…all perfect. :) Upon checking into Sydney Airport for the flight, the check-in lady mentioned extra forms and...

The Problem If you have been a BizTalk developer long enough, you will know that application lifecycle management has always been a pain point when it comes to managing BizTalk projects. The Out-of-Box support available in BizTalk Server is not too great...

I had a chance last month to speak at the Microsoft SOA Conference about the latest version of the ESB Guidance for BizTalk Server (version 2.0). The recordings from that conference have now been posted online. You can find my ESB session at http://soaconference2009...

Those who have known me for any amount of time, know that I have always been a vocal proponent of my employer, Sogeti.  For over 2 years they have been the vehicle by which I’ve advanced my career, and reached out to the developer community. ...

I was writing to a Windows file share and saw behavior where the send port would not complete writing out the flat file or the flat file would contain more records than the inbound document. After opening up a Microsoft ticket, the following KB article...

This has come up twice for me in the past week: once while reading the tech review comments on my own book (due out in April), and again while I was tech reviewing another BizTalk book (due out in July).  That is, we presumptively say that the BizTalk...

In a previous post we showed how to implement a basic WCF content based routing solution using the Windows Application Server (Dublin) forwarding service together with XPath message filters and filter tables. Even though XPath filters are a very appealing...

It is no secret that Microsoft has been working on bringing its Enterprise offerings up to date, readying them for the next generation of applications and services, and fixing small pain points that have vexed developers for years. In just a short while...

I haven't blogged about it, though Mikael has mentioned it , but in conjunction with the BizTalk User Group Sweden meeting I released a webcast about how to use BizTalk Server 2009 Beta 1 together with Team Foundation Server 2008 to automate build...

I developed a custom functoid and found the weird behavior that wouldn't allow me to link the output to another functoid. I found the reason here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.biztalk.basefunctoids.functoidcategory.aspx It states...

Hi - today I came across a handy Matrix that describes the supported versions for the Biztalk Adapter Pack v2.0 Handy reference I reckon :) ---snip--- Compatibility Matrix Between 32 and 64-bit Versions of the Adapter, BizTalk Server, and Operating System...

Had two great groups of attendees for my talks on Oslo and REST. Thanks a lot  - and please fill out the evals, they do help shape who speaks and on what.  Of course if you didn't like my session, you can feel free not to fill out the eval...

If you saw the recent announcement about the Adapter Pack 2.0 release, you may have seen the short reference to a tool that migrates “classic” SQL Adapter solutions to the new WCF SQL Adapter.  This tool claims to: Works on the source...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] WCF bindings provide the MaxReceivedMessageSize property, which lets you block any incoming messages on the client side over a given size (defaulting to 64Kb). If you're using message-based itinerary...

I'm always looking for these binding files so here's a note to myself: C:\Documents and Settings\<your account>\Application Data\Microsoft\BizTalk Server\Deployment\BindingFiles

As promised in my last post ( http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/02/24/129639.aspx ), I had a look at the Express edition of Microsoft Solver Framework ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/solverfoundation ), and used it to implement the Einstein...

This is really the EDI error version of multiple schemas deployed with identical Namespace#RootNode. Check the deployed schemas under your All Artifacts application

I've previously blogged about cleaning (emptying) the MsgBox database , something that can be useful in some scenarios, like development and test. While looking for something else the other day I found information about an equally useful procedure...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] Using LoadGen 2007 to submit messages with a complex SOAP header, I had a strange issue with the standard SOAP transport. The SOAP transport has two parameters for wrapping the input file into a SOAP...

Ok, so I’ve finally sucumbed to the Twitter phenomenon and I’m now twittering, or is that tweeting? Eitherway, you can follow me over at http://twitter.com/nickheppleston if you are so inclined…