January, 2013

When I started blogging a year ago I had no idea how much it would help me progress my own learning, and how rewarding a hobby I was going to gain. If not for the feedback and interest in my blog posts I might not have been quite so motivated to keep it up. As a big thank [...] Blog Post by: Johann

Recently at the BizTalk Summit in London I was asked a question about Message Archiving from BizTalk and one of the most common solutions to this is the Message Archiving Pipeline Component which was written by my old friend Nick Heppleson. After the...

The C# compiler is a pretty good thing, but it has limitations. One limitation that has given me a headache this evening is its inability to guard against cycles in structs. As I learn to think and programme in a more functional style, I find that I am...

It’s only a week since our big BizTalk Summit 2013, London event. Today I’m here in Amsterdam presenting in another BizTalk Event sharing the stage with Richard Seroter and Steef-Jan Wigger. The event was arranged by ESTREME (Netherland based consultancy company focused on BizTalk Administration and operations). Richard Seroter presented on Patterns of Cloud Integration’s and he explained in [...] The post Great start to 2013, another BizTalk Event in Amsterdam appeared first on...

If you are a UX designer, you have undoubtedly been at a client gathering requirements when they say the magic words, “There are some users who will want to do that, but they’re only a couple of people.” This sends your internal monologue into a quizzical frenzy: How many is a couple? Are we not going [...] Blog Post by: Matt Donahue

After talking about Windows Azure Service Bus EAI EDI Labs or Windows Azure BizTalk Services over the 11 months all over around Europe I decided that my last session was last Wednesday, 16 January in BizTalk Summit 2013 in London and I will only return to this topic when a new release is published with [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

This is the second post on new adapters that will be shipped with BizTalk Server 2013. The post is based on BizTalk Server 2013 Beta. In this post I like to demonstrate the WCF-NetTcpRelay adapter. The WCF-NetTcpRelay adapter can be used with BizTalk to send and receive messages from the Service Bus relay endpoints using the NetTcpRelayBinding. When configuring for instance a request response

The 1st of the BizTalk Saturday – BizTalk 2013 Hands on Days has been scheduled for Auckland, NZ on the 9th of Feb 2013, thanks to the hard work of Nikolai Blackie, Principle Architect Adaptiv Integration . To register for the event, go to http://akl-bts2013-handson.eventbrite.co.nz/# Information on the rest of the event around Australia and NZ will be coming out shortly, if you are interested in the event in your city, and you have not filled out the survey, please fill out the survey - http://www...

I recently ran into a situation where I had “inherited” a laptop from a previous developer on a project. This laptop was on the customer’s domain, and had been configured for source control using Team Foundation Services. A problem arose after logging in using my own credentials, and attempting to map the TFS root (“$/”) [...] Blog Post by: Brett

128 attendees, more than 70 different companies across 16 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA), more than 10 Microsoft Integration MVP’s present (speakers, Q&A members and attendees) and 3 members of Microsoft Product group, these are some of the numbers that reflect the huge [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

The BizTalk Summit 2013 in London was a huge success . Saravana Kumar from BizTalk360 did an outstanding job organizing this event with Microsoft. Over a 140 attendees, more than 70 different companies from 15 different countries (UK, Ireland, USA, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, France, Norway, India). Including the speakers there were 10 Microsoft Integration MVPs present. On the Q&A panel there was Jon Fancey, Michael Stephenson and Charles...

I have seen a lot developers struggle with debugging pipeline components and other .NET classes that get executed by BizTalk host instances. I have also often heard statements claiming that these sorts of artifacts are hard or impossible to debug in the BizTalk runtime. I would very much like to clear up this notion for [...] Blog Post by: Johann

A colleague of mine was implementing a system which required a generic XML on ramp that accepted messages from a variety of trading partners. He quickly encountered the age-old problem of not so sophisticated trading partners sending XML documents which contained no namespaces. This can quickly become a nightmare scenario in the world of BizTalk [...] Blog Post by: Johann

One of our customers has started an on a project to upgrade their DB2 version 9.1 database running on Solaris to DB2 version 10.01 running on Linux. We currently use BizTalk DB2 adapters to get and save data to the 9.1 version of the database using BizTalk 2010. I was asked to make sure that [...] Blog Post by: mbrimble

It’s a great feeling when you successfully execute something after months of work. That’s exactly how we feel after BizTalk Summit 2013, London event after 5 months of preparation. I thought I’ll summarise the story of the day when it’s fresh in my mind. The day began with a warm welcome at Microsoft office, London [...] The post BizTalk Summit 2013 – London. The story of the day appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

While getting my BizTalk SWIFT environment prepared on BizTalk, I decided to test the waters by running through the Tutorial – big trouble in little Sydney resulted. While the tutorial is comprehensive, it’s written for previous versions of the SWIFT accelerator so there’s the few paths (BREConfigurator.exe.config) that need correcting for some of the SDK tools. Which I can live with as their part of the SDK and this isn’t quite baked BizTalk 2013 yet. The part where I hit trouble is that during...

BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 extends the capabilities of BizTalk Server for health care providers. Health Level 7 (HL7) is an industry-standard application protocol for electronic data exchange of information. The Minimal Lower Layer Protocol (MLLP) is the most common mechanism for exchanging the HL7 data. MLLP uses the TCP/IP protocol to transfer the data. MLLP delimiters are used to recognize the start and the end of message. In BizTalk are often different Receive Ports used for each message type...

About a month ago I announced the release of the beta installer for the BRE Pipeline Framework. Since then I have been hard at work trying to get the framework up to scratch with the goal towards starting to use it on new projects, and at the very least to use it to make POCs [...] Blog Post by: Johann

In this series of blog posts, I’m looking at how well some leading cloud providers have embedded their management tools within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. In the first post of the series, I walked through the Windows Azure management capabilities in Visual Studio 2012. This evaluation looks at the completeness of coverage for browsing, [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Microsoft Research(MS Research) is an infinite source of technical innovation. Because of my academic background, I am constantly following the new MS Research projects and drawing ideas and inspiration from them. Recently, I came across Project Hawaii...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx