April, 2012

Folks, this is Scotty's 2nd presentation this week where he shares is love, scripts and years of experience in Managing Azure Applications (Breeze started back in early 2008). Tune into this free event and to hear & see what Scotty has on offer. Register LIVE Meeting: Managing Windows Azure Applications Event ID: 1032500972 Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft BizTalk Server and Windows Azure. So you just made your first Windows Azure deployment. Now what? Is it healthy? How many instances...

Hi folks, Scotty (aka Sco the Stig) Scovell is presenting this week on Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure as part of Microsoft Readiness. We'd love to see you there - free event LIVE Meeting: Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure Event ID: 1032500970 Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft BizTalk Server and Windows Azure. Any platform, by its own nature, creates an ecosystem for third-party tools and helpers. Windows Azure is no different. In this session we look at a variety of the third...

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending some time on the phone with Blue Badge Insight’s CEO Andrew Brust . From the ones of you who don’t know Andrew , he is an internationally recognized expert in subjects related to business intelligence and...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Finally we managed to secure our next user group meeting on 10th May 2012. We settled for the theme BizTalk Administration Special. In recent month, there are whole lot of traction around BizTalk administration and operations. Guys at BizTalk Administration Blogging ( http://biztalkadminsblogging.com/ ) are doing a great job in promoting the importance of a BizTalk administrators role in an organisation. Event Information : When : 10th May 2012, Thursday, between 6:30 to 9:30pm Where :  Customer...

In February 2012 Ordina (by means of Steef-Jan Wiggers) organised the Ordina BizTalk Innovation Event. We had the honour to receive 2 international guests, namely BizTalk MVP Saravana Kumar and Tord Glad Nordahl. Since that event multiple international BizTalk/Integration events are being organised. I'll mention a couple that I know off: 10 May: UK Connected Systems User Group Location: London, United Kingdom Speakers: Saravana Kumar, Tord Glad Nordahl More information can be found here 22-24...

Clemens Vasters was kind enough to round off his visit to Norway and Sweden by presenting a session on Hybrid Applications for the Sweden Windows Azure User Group (SWAG) in Stockholm. After presenting two sessions at TechDays he ditched Power Point and...

In this article we will use the basic mapping operations previously described, and analyze the decisions taken by the BizTalk mapping engine. Basically on this mapping problem there are two similar schemes, which we intend to map the source elements in their proper destination and for which we implemented the following challenges: Concatenate the first [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

I found an interesting blog post that I would like to share with you: BizTalk Server: 8 Tips And Tricks For Better BizTalk Programming

Filtering the informative, insightful and quirky from the fire hose of cloud-based hype. Google’s “Google Drive” has been leading the news this week, and has sparked off some debate about the data storage “In the Cloud”. LA Times has a nice comparison...

In my previous blog post I explained how to execute pipelines from an orchestration using the default pipeline property settings. Now I would like to show you how to call pipelines from an orchestration while configuring the pipeline with custom property settings. To achieve this the standard methods wouldn't suffice. First of all you'll need to add some extra functionalities. Here's my code to achieve this: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System...

Thanks to all participants, it was a participation record which may demonstrate the good acceptance of this new book by the BizTalk community. It was extremely hard to decide, but lucky me, my girlfriend decided to take care of this contest and decide what would be the winner, after carefully reading all the emails she [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

It is hard to not point out the fact that this is a cookbook, and there already is a book about BizTalk recipes . It is also hard not to point out the fact that I love cooking but hate using cookbooks… This is a cookbook I really, really like though. I imagine that you, like me, have a collection of really good BizTalk blog post links in you browser of choice. When you use BizTalk, and when you read up on what others have written, then you bookmark certain posts for safe-keeping. You just know that...

Thanks to PackT I have one printed and signed copy of Steef-Jan Wiggers new book BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook and this can be yours! But there’s a cath, in order to receive this book you need to send me a mail tordgladnordahl@gmail.com with you shipping address and answer the two following questions. You start out with 100 points, the one with Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl

The Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG) will hold a session on “Hybrid Applications – Building Solutions that span On-Premises Assets and the Cloud” with Clemens Vasters, principle technical lead for the Windows Azure Service Bus. It should be a great session...

Calling a pipeline from an orchestration is quite easy. First of all you need to add a reference to the Microsoft.XLANGs.Pipeline.dll and Microsoft.BizTalk.Pipeline.dll assemblies. When this is done you'll be able to execute a receive pipeline as follows: ReceivePipelineOutput = Microsoft.XLANGs.Pipeline.XLANGPipelineManager.ExecuteReceivePipeline ( typeof (ShemasAndPipelines.ReceiveCustOrdres), OrdersInputInterchange); To get all messages coming out the pipeline, you'll have to loop over...

Filtering the informative, insightful and quirky from the fire hose of cloud-based hype. The announcement of the Windows Azure hosted media platform has been leading the Azure news stories this week with articles my Mary-Jo , streamingmedia.com and V3...

For the BizTalk Portuguese Community, I publish an article call “BizTalk Server – How to transform flat files into XML” on the Magazine “Programar” and soon I will translate to English. Já está disponível a 34ª edição da Revista PROGRAMAR, uma publicação digital gratuita com diversos artigos relacionados com desenvolvimento de software. Esta edição contém [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

How to configure a clustered MSMQ for WCF services with a netMsmqBinding.

The adapter “WCF-SQL” raised an error message. Details “System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object. Object name: ‘TransactionScope’. at System.Transactions.TransactionScope.Complete() at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.TransactionRpcFacet.ThreadLeave() at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage7(MessageRpc& rpc)”.   When using WCF-SQL adapter you can obtain this error by requesting a SQL server which doesn’t...

As many of my friends know I’ve been working hard on a new book for O’Reilly called Getting Started with Metro Style Apps. This book is written for existing .NET developers who are interested in the changes introduced with the release of Windows 8. This book is intended to be a guide to [...] Blog Post by: Ben Dewey