July, 2012

Since BizTalk 2009, BizTalk has had unit tests for Schemas, Maps and Pipelines. I have recently been trying to incorporate these unit tests into my BizTalk Demo Project (instructions can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd257907 ) The test were working fine on my local development machine, but when I ran them as part of my TFS BizTalk automated build and test, they failed with the following error: The error said: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'Microsoft...

The corporate landscape of today includes a wide variety of heterogeneous business applications. Each designed to solve a specific and specialised business problem. These applications are often not designed to work together seamlessly. This creates a major challenge when information needs to be extracted or combined for various purposes across the enterprise. The question then arises, “How do organisations extract relevant information and deliver it in the right format, to a destination either inside...

In my last post I explained how to call an external assembly from Custom XSLT in BizTalk Server 2010 using the Custom Extension XML property of the maps. I also describe that BizTalk Server 2010/Visual Studio 2010 have an issue with this functionality: Visual Studio doesn’t persist the path of Custom Extension XML property in [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

The Holiday is over and it is back to work. I opened up my laptop and start working on a story on a remarkable BizTalk pro Howard S. Edidin . He is currently working with me, Tord G. Nordahl and Andres del Rio on BizTalk Administration book due before end of this year. Howard is a very enthusiastic, driven and social person, who I enjoy collaborating with and share ideas on many divers BizTalk topics. So here is another story of a BizTalk community member I like to bring to the foreground. Howard...

This post is just to clarify the authentication settings required for being able to receive messages from Microsoft Dynamics AX (2009) into BizTalk using the older-style Microsoft Dynamics Adapter. The latest version of AX uses a more generic WCF based approach, so your mileage may vary. Firstly, there are two sets of of credentials to [...] Blog Post by: Brett

This topic is not new in my blog, I’ve already talked about this in the past: Calling an external assembly from Custom XSLT – Custom Extension XML (Grid Property) however, I decided to revisit this functionality within BizTalk Server 2010 and you will know why soon. So is usual in complex maps to have scripting [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

This blog post is all about how schemas are resolved by the BizTalk XML Disassembler. Does BizTalk treats the MessageType in a case-sensitive or a case-insensitive way? Let's have a look!

A quick tutorial on html parsing using the jsoup Java library. Blog Post by: Richard Krajunus

For those who have never heard about SignalR, it is an async .net library for building real-time web applications. This sounds so interesting that it can actually open another dimension for applications requiring realtime updates via BizTalk. SignalR helps pushing data from the server to the client (not just browser clients). SignalR makes it dead easy and [...] Blog Post by: DipeshA

We are pleased to announce to our customers and partners that we will once again be participating in the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for the next version of BizTalk Server. Microsoft has yet to announce a final name for the product, it is presently being referred to as BizTalk Server 2010 R2 or simply v-next, however they have indicated that the release date will be about six months after the release of Windows 8 Server. I recently posted another blog that talks about the future of BizTalk...

I know that many of you have been wondering if BizTalk is just going away, and Microsoft has been particularly closed mouthed about their plans for it of late. After a period of relatively rapid growth, with BizTalk 2006 R2 in 2008, BizTalk 2009 and BizTalk 2010, all in rapid succession there has been nothing new except a few patches out of the BizTalk team for 2+ years. Information about the latest cumulative update for BizTalk Server 2010 is available here. With Microsoft pushing AppFabric and...

Our goal here at BizTalk360 is make it as seamless as possible to setup monitoring for your BizTalk server environments without breaking your wallet. The focus for our 4.0 release was purely on improving the monitoring capabilities. We pretty much nailed all the monitoring requirements from a BizTalk environment perspective (still more to come). Here [...] Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

Hi guys, Great opportunity for .Net Developers to join fast growing company Breeze was recently awarded Microsoft World partner of the Year for 2012 and is looking for 2 .Net developers to work with the latest cloud technologies in Sydney. (well if you think about it you could use the latest cloud technologies from anywhere, not just Sydney) Please contact me or visit us at Jobs at www.breeze.net – love to hear from you. (no recruiters please) Have a great day folks, Mick. Blog Post by: Mick Badran

As you can see from the below picture, this is the bill we are going to pay for this month around £216.78 and we can see this growing by roughly £1.5 every hour. Even though it's manageable amount you need to be aware things can go out of your control very soon. Still lot of the terminologies are fairly new and it's very easy to make some wrong assumptions or ignorant of small setting that can cost you without you needing that functionality. We were so excited when Microsoft announced...

Microsoft will release to manufacture (RTM) Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 in the first week of August with the official release planned for September. With the majority of users eligible for a “free” upgrade to the latest version through their MSDN Subscriptions, expect to see many organizations upgrading over the coming six months! Why not hit the ground running by having your staff up skilled on the many great new features Microsoft have included in this release. Here’s just...

We are living exciting days, but hard to keep track of everything due to all the new features, product, versions… that are announced day by day… Therefore, and with some delay, here is the list of new updates available for all different versions of BizTalk Server. BizTalk Server 2010 Release in June 19, 2012 – [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Kovai Limited the owner of BizTalk360 based in London, yesterday signed a strategic partnership agreement with Tallan Inc Often times customers are bombarded with information making their life harder to decide on the right tool for their requirements. Partner organisations are the ones who work very closely with the customers, understanding their business requirements. For the past few months we were actively engaged in partnering with right organisation, who got similar vision to ours, "delivering...

I tried to do a simple DateTime calculation in C#. What I wanted to achieve is to know how many years, months and days where between 2 DateTime variables. Or at least I thought this would be easy. Turns out there is know real out-of-the-box functionality available to handle this in C#. The only thing available out-of-the-box in C# is using TimeSpan. Unfortuanately the only calculations TimeSpan can return is the number of days, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds. But how about the years, months...

Blog Post by: Mick Badran

Overview In this post, I’ll walk you though how to create a SharePoint 2010  BCS .NET Connectivity Assembly in Visual Studio 2010. We’re going to create an assembly that will allow us to Crawl RSS Feeds using BCS.  Creating a BCS .NET Connectivity Assembly project in Visual Studio 2010 First, create a new project selecting the Sharepoint –> [...] Blog Post by: Michael Gerety