February, 2012

One of the big feature we added in our 3.2 release is the graphical message flow viewer . Basically it allows user to visualize the end-to-end message flow within your BizTalk Environment. A example screen shot We released a short video (7 minutes) this morning covering some of the scenarios and showing how easy it's to use it. If in case you are not aware, graphical message flow viewer requires zero development/configuration effort, you can install BizTalk360 on your existing environment and...

Hey guys, Breeze is looking for some keen .NET Developers who have some SharePoint (2007/2010) experience and would like to accelerate their development accessing the latest technologies. If that sounds like you please visit www.breeze.net/about/jobs.aspx , we’d love to hear from you. Keep smiling, Mick. Blog Post by: Mick Badran

I am working with an integration against a SalesForce solution, where there is a very complex structure in SalesForce, where there are references that will never end in a recursive situation. This gives you an out of memory exception or your Visual Studio crashes. The solution is to open the BizTalk map with an XML editor and change the (GenerateDefaultFixedNodes="Yes") to (GenerateDefaultFixedNodes="No") or (GenerateDefaultFixedNodes="RequiredDefaults"). If you have...

With our 3.2 release we restructured the navigation menu to make it bit more simpler. The LHS shows the old navigation and the RHS showing the new navigation (Data folder). In the above screens, Chrome and IE are actually accessing the same resource (URL). IE is smart enough to refresh the new Silverlight XAP files and display the new navigation tree, whereas Chrome is still referring to the old xap file. The solution to this problem is to clear the browser cache, you can follow the below instructions...

We have done consulting work for various organisation, typically the BizTalk environment topology diagram is drawn in Visio and stored somewhere in document a repository like SharePoint. Depending on the size of the organisation, there will be various environments like SIT, UAT, Staging, Performance, Production, etc and it will be a time consuming task to keep the diagrams up to date. Majority of the time the diagrams will quickly go out of sync when more servers are added/removed to the environment...

We have more Kinect for you next week. After the great feedback received with our previous webinar and to celebrate the exciting release of Kinect for Windows, Tellago will be hosting our second Kinect Technology Update next Tuesday . We will cover the...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

For the first SWAG meeting of 2012 Ludwig Ahrle and Mikael Eriksson will present two developer focused sessions covering the work they have been doing for Curvande on the Windows Azure platform. This will be a great opportunity to see real-world Azure...

Ive recently really seen some of the benefits in action from the work we have been doing to introduce Behaviour Driven Development techniques into our BizTalk development process. A couple of months ago one of the members of our team was unavailable and...

Currently there is a lot of activity in BizTalk community. BizTalkadminsblogging has had a flying start with a lot of contributions. Number of BizTalk related articles on the TechNet wiki is growing . Besides the wiki a lot of BizTalk pro’s are active on blogs and forums. So today I like to continue with the fifth story in the BizTalk Community Series that brings active BizTalk community members to the foreground. The story today is on Rajesh Kolla . I had a little chat with Rajesh through email...

SQL Server 2012 comes with a new licensing model . Instead of per processor socket you will pay per core. Licenses are sold in two core packs with a minimum of four core licenses needed per physical processor (even if that processor only has two cores). The price per core is about one quarter (1/4) of the price per processor today. This means that the price for anything but quad core processor architectures will either go up, in the case of hexa core processors, or will give you less value then what...

In part 1 I defined what the bitwise operator is and how you can use it in your .net code. Now, let us see how we can use the same functionality in BizTalk to route messages. How to use  the bitwise operator in BizTalk One of the great things about my job is that I get to move around a lot. Different customers has different uses for BizTalk and this leads to new ways to use it. This scenario is not unique, but was new to me anyway. BizTalk receives a message and needs to route it to different...

You know it’s a Friday when…who can spot the ‘yes/no/cancel’ buttons? Blog Post by: Mick Badran

The same article in the TechNet. If you are working with queues in BizTalk Server, the most possible it is the MSMQ. MSMQ is an old man of the Microsoft technology stack. It was created when there were no good standards for messaging. Now MSMQ is wrapped...

Did you know that there is a “bitwise” operator that you can use when you define subscriptions in BizTalk? I surely did not! I just stumbled upon it an since I could not find any really good article on it I thought I would give it a try: What is the Bitwise operator? This is certainly best answered by others; like wikipedia or this guy , or Microsoft of course. If you want the short, short version; it is a good way to let one number represent a combination of other numbers, so that you know if a...

  As described in a previous post , Microsoft has ported Apache Hadoop to Windows Azure (this will also be available on Windows Server). This is available as a private community technology preview for now. Comme nous l’avons vu dans un billet précédent, Microsoft a porté Apache Hadoop sur Windows Azure (ce sera aussi disponible sur Windows Server). Cela est disponible sous la forme d’une pré-version privée à l’heure actuelle. This does not use Cygwin. One of the contributions Microsoft will...

As I was working on “The Developers Guide to AppFabric” e-book I also started developing a training course on the Azure Service Bus. The first delivery of this course is scheduled for May 3-4 in Stockholm. I’m really looking forward to delivering this...

If you are using batches for EDI in BizTalk Server 2009 and earlier you might experience problems with deployment if you include your parties in your binding files or have a role link that have enlisted the party. If it is the later part you will always run into problems as you binding always includes parties even if you don't select it in your deployment. The normal way to deploy would go into each party and stop the batch as this will stop the orchestration that always is running. You can see...

Hi folks, I hope 2012 has been a great start for you as well. Currently at Breeze I’m after 2 more BizTalk/SharePoint/.NET junior Developers to join a great team. If you love technology and want to get your hands dirty then we should chat – ideally you’ve got sound .NET development experience and exposure to SharePoint and BizTalk. We’re also a training company, so we will skill you up in required areas – the thing I’m looking for is a great attitude. The rest can be learnt… If you want to get into...

Last couple of weeks I written a number of wiki articles for TechNet Wiki . The TechNet Wiki is a place, where content is generated by the community and Microsoft employees about Microsoft technologies and products for the community. I very much like the concept and in November 2011 I completed my first ten articles . Next ten were created by 15th of January. Now a few weeks later I have finished the next ten: First on MSDTC that plays an important role in a BizTalk environment A couple of survival...

London, 7th Feb 2012. We are happy to announce the immediate availability of version 3.2 . We have been working on this version for the past 6 months. We branched off couple of months prior to our earlier 2.5 release to work on this version. We released our first public beta on 1st of December 2011. We were planning to go live on 1st week of January, but delayed it by 5 weeks to squeeze in few more features along with this release. Here are the top features added to this release DOWNLOAD LINK : http...