August 2006 - Stephen W. Thomas BizTalk MVP

Simple Script to Terminate All Orchestration Instances

Tired of having to go into BizTalk Server Admin and terminate any suspended Orchestration instance before you want to redeploy? Scripting this task is very simple using WMI. Just create a file called Terminate.vb and copy in this code: TerminateAllOrchs Sub TerminateAllOrchs Query = "SELECT * FROM MSBTS_ServiceInstance where ServiceClass = 1" Set InstSet = GetObject("Winmgmts:!root\MicrosoftBizTalkServer"...

Published Tue, Aug 29 2006 7:44 AM by Stephen W. Thomas

Filed under: biztalk, deployment

How to Auto-GAC your BizTalk Helper Classes on a Successful Build

Working with helper .net classes with BizTalk is a common task. Sometimes it can be easy to forget to GAC the latest version of the code when you go to test the solution on your local development box. With a simple Post Build Event, you can have your code automatically put in the GAC for you. Adding the post build event is easy. Just go to the project properties of your helper class and select Build...

Published Tue, Aug 29 2006 5:09 AM by Stephen W. Thomas

Filed under: biztalk, .net components

Native serialization error Root element is missing Map Error

Recently I was testing a BizTalk map inside Visual Studios. The input schema was auto generated using the SQL Adapter and the output was a simple text file. I was using a sample file provided to me from a past generation from the schema (or so I thought) to test the map. When I was testing, I keep getting a blank file as output and a strange error. The error was: Native serialization error: Root element...

Published Tue, Aug 15 2006 11:01 PM by Stephen W. Thomas

Filed under: biztalk errors, maps

How to Split Received Email Attachments in BizTalk 2006

This was a question (paraphrased) on the BizTalkGurus.com Forum: “How can I take email attachments and put them as is into a folder?” When using the POP3 Receive Adapter, you have the ability to receive multiple items as attachments and the adapter will handle them using MIME processing. You do not need a custom pipeline. When receiving a multi-attachment message, you have the ability to...

Published Tue, Aug 8 2006 4:39 PM by Stephen W. Thomas

Filed under: debatching, biztalk 2006, pop3

How To Build and Deploy BizTalk Solutions Using MSBuild

MSBuild is the new build platform for Visual Studios. It allows great flexibility, customization (through creating custom Tasks), and integration with unit tests. While MSBuild doesn’t directly support building BizTalk solutions, tasks are available to call the DEVENV executable and Microsoft UK has released a set of custom tasks to support a wide verity of common BizTalk tasks (available on...

Published Mon, Aug 7 2006 12:23 AM by Stephen W. Thomas

Filed under: biztalk 2006, msbuild, deployment

August 2006 - Stephen W. Thomas BizTalk MVP

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Simple Script to Terminate All Orchestration Instances

How to Auto-GAC your BizTalk Helper Classes on a Successful Build

Native serialization error Root element is missing Map Error

How to Split Received Email Attachments in BizTalk 2006

How To Build and Deploy BizTalk Solutions Using MSBuild