December 2008 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

BizTalk 2009 Testing Features

Warning: This post is about a beta product. Details might change before final release. The beta of BizTalk Server 2009 brings a welcome new feature: Some basic support for Unit Testing BizTalk artifacts; specifically for Pipelines, Maps and Schemas. You...

Published Wed, Dec 31 2008 6:35 PM by Commonality - BizTalk

Filed under: BizTalk

Happy New Year BizTalk-ers!

Just a quick post to say Happy New Year to all of the BizTalk community. I was planning on writing about the BizTalk 2006 R2 to 2009 upgrade experience, but I managed to forget my external drive so I can’t start the VM… instead you’ll...

Published Wed, Dec 31 2008 4:00 PM by Nick Heppleston's BizTalk Blog

Filed under: General

2008 coming to a close.....so Just how is BizTalk doing out there??? Gartner Reports

I recently came across a Gartner report talking about all things to do with 'App Integration with Back End Systems' (in a nutshell... the report goes into detail) The end result of several pages within this report is a graph (we like graphs :...

Published Tue, Dec 30 2008 8:09 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: BizTalk, BizTalk/Insights, BizTalk/Oslo, BizTalk/2009

Screencast: Configuring MEX endpoints

In this short WCF screencast, you'll learn how to configure your WCF services with Metadata Exchange (MEX) endpoints - both over HTTP and TCP - allowing consumers to automatically retrieve metadata from your services at runtime. Enjoy! Be sure to...

Published Tue, Dec 30 2008 2:39 PM by Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard

Screencast: Configuring MEX endpoints on WCF Services

I recently published a free video on Configuring MEX endpoints on WCF Services . In this short WCF screencast , you'll learn how to configure your WCF services with Metadata Exchange (MEX) endpoints - both over HTTP and TCP - allowing consumers to...

Published Tue, Dec 30 2008 2:39 PM by Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard

Filed under: WCF, Screencasts

Failed to create the transport adapter

I have received this error when testing my adapter I am creating: The Messaging Engine failed to create the transport adapter "SQLBulkXML". OutboundAssemblyPath: "D:\Eric\Warehouse\Adapter\Run-Time\SQLBulkXMLTransmit\bin\Debug\SQLBulkXMLTransmitAdapter...

Published Mon, Dec 29 2008 4:02 PM by Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog

Refactoring a common anti-pattern when publishing web services from BizTalk

Background I was recently reviewing a BizTalk application where there were around a dozen orchestrations which had been exposed as either SOAP or WSE web services. The typical pattern that had been used in these orchestrations is illustrated in the below...

Published Mon, Dec 29 2008 7:02 AM by Michael Stephenson

Filed under: BizTalk

[OT] Happy Holidays!

Published Sat, Dec 27 2008 4:46 AM by Jan Tielens' Bloggings

BizTalk Server 2009 MSBuild Tasks

I’ve been looking around the new project system introduced in the BizTalk Server 2009 beta. As you might have heard before, it’s now based on MSBuild. This is an extremely welcome change from the obscure compilation model in previous BizTalk versions...

Published Fri, Dec 26 2008 4:48 AM by Commonality - BizTalk

Filed under: BizTalk

PipelineTesting and BizTalk 2009

Now that the a public beta release of BizTalk Server 2009 is out, I thought I’d download it and try building and testing PipelineTesting on the new release. After downloading and installing the beta, I proceeded to import the existing Visual Studio 2005...

Published Wed, Dec 24 2008 5:52 AM by Commonality - BizTalk

Filed under: BizTalk

SharePoint APIs - RPC for SharePoint Sample

With all the developer extensions in recent time around SharePoint (Features, Solutions etc), I've found there seems to be a few little known and little used 'other' APIs within the SharePoint space. We've got things like WebServices and...

Published Mon, Dec 22 2008 8:34 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: Office, .NET Developer, moss

BizTalk 2009 Database Infrastructure Poster

How to look cool at work.... Stick this poster by your desk, people will walk past and say "Hmmmm......" - guaranteed to reduce the amount of questions you get each day :-) (Then you could start talking about the 'flux capacitor' and...

Published Mon, Dec 22 2008 7:22 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: BizTalk, BizTalk/Insights, Training, BizTalk/2009

New course on "Dublin"

I'm excited to announce that we have now listed our new "Dublin" course on the website . This will be a three day course where we dive in to taking advantage of the hosting features found in the new application server being developed at...

Published Mon, Dec 22 2008 9:24 AM by Matt's Musings

Filed under: Windows Workflow Foundation, General Musings, Windows Communication Foundation

Using WF rules in .NET applications and WCF services

THe business rule engine in Windows Workflow Foundation is an often overlooked feature that provides powerful business logic processing and rich business rule engine execution semantics. Some mistakenly believe this functionality can only be used from...

Published Mon, Dec 22 2008 9:11 AM by Matt's Musings

Filed under: Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation

Publishing WCF Services to Windows Azure

I had a little hickup today as I was playing around exploring Web services and Windows Azure. After scanning the Internet, I'm now convinced that most people out there working with Azure are hosting Web apps up there, not Web services, based on the...

Published Sun, Dec 21 2008 9:06 PM by Brian Loesgen's Blog

The BizTalk Ops Team - Maintaining a Healthy, Responsive and Available BizTalk Environment

One of the things that surprises me about BizTalk installations is, in my experience, the limited support they receive once a project has gone live. BizTalk is a large enterprise product and a dedicated team of BizTalk operational specialists and SQL...

Published Sun, Dec 21 2008 3:46 PM by Nick Heppleston's BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft SQL Server, Disaster Recovery, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Windows PowerShell

Event log service is unavailable issue

I thought I'd blog about this issue I had, since it was in the end so easy to solve, but I had a hard time finding a good description of both my specific problem and any resolution. I am a bit ashamed to say that I got quite creative before trying...

Published Sun, Dec 21 2008 4:50 AM by Be Logical - writings by Johan Hedberg

Filed under: General, Configuration, Maintenance, Monitoring

Recipes for working with Microsoft Virtual PC

Robert Folkesson , a Swedish Microsoft developer evangelist, wrote recently about a recipe for getting good performance out of a VPC (in Swedish). In summary and translated to English, he suggest that you run the base VPC from an USB memory stick and...

Published Sat, Dec 20 2008 3:28 PM by Be Logical - writings by Johan Hedberg

I'm in .iso installation hell

I've been installing a new VPC with Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and BizTalk Server 2009. I've never had so much trouble installing from .iso files. It seems to work 1 out of 5 times, or less. Even when you try the same file...

Published Sat, Dec 20 2008 1:15 PM by Be Logical - writings by Johan Hedberg

Screencast: Configuring WCF services with behaviors

I recently published a free video on Configuring WCF services with behaviors . In this WCF screencast , I'll show you how to configure WCF services with behaviors, which will allow you to customize different aspects of the runtime execution "behavior"...

Published Fri, Dec 19 2008 4:22 PM by Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard

Filed under: WCF, Screencasts

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BizTalk 2009 Testing Features

Happy New Year BizTalk-ers!

2008 coming to a close.....so Just how is BizTalk doing out there??? Gartner Reports

Screencast: Configuring MEX endpoints

Screencast: Configuring MEX endpoints on WCF Services

Failed to create the transport adapter

Refactoring a common anti-pattern when publishing web services from BizTalk

[OT] Happy Holidays!

BizTalk Server 2009 MSBuild Tasks

PipelineTesting and BizTalk 2009

SharePoint APIs - RPC for SharePoint Sample

BizTalk 2009 Database Infrastructure Poster

New course on "Dublin"

Using WF rules in .NET applications and WCF services

Publishing WCF Services to Windows Azure

The BizTalk Ops Team - Maintaining a Healthy, Responsive and Available BizTalk Environment

Event log service is unavailable issue

Recipes for working with Microsoft Virtual PC

I'm in .iso installation hell

Screencast: Configuring WCF services with behaviors