February 2009 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Sydney to the MVP 2009 Summit (Seattle) – Day 0

Woke up now yesterday morning Sydney time (GMT+10hrs) feeling great, sunny day the beach was just glassy and really blue. What a day I thought…all perfect. :) Upon checking into Sydney Airport for the flight, the check-in lady mentioned extra forms and...

Published Sat, Feb 28 2009 11:01 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: General, Events/MVPSummit09

Static code analysis for BizTalk using BizTalkCop

The Problem If you have been a BizTalk developer long enough, you will know that application lifecycle management has always been a pain point when it comes to managing BizTalk projects. The Out-of-Box support available in BizTalk Server is not too great...

Published Sat, Feb 28 2009 10:33 AM by BizTalk guy from India

My SOA Conference Session on ESB is online

I had a chance last month to speak at the Microsoft SOA Conference about the latest version of the ESB Guidance for BizTalk Server (version 2.0). The recordings from that conference have now been posted online. You can find my ESB session at http://soaconference2009...

Published Fri, Feb 27 2009 4:33 PM by BizTalk in the Great White North

Improving Myself

Those who have known me for any amount of time, know that I have always been a vocal proponent of my employer, Sogeti. For over 2 years they have been the vehicle by which I’ve advanced my career, and reached out to the developer community. ...

Published Fri, Feb 27 2009 4:31 PM by TimRayburn.net: Blog

Filed under: Blog

BizTalk Messages that stay active with no error

I was writing to a Windows file share and saw behavior where the send port would not complete writing out the flat file or the flat file would contain more records than the inbound document. After opening up a Microsoft ticket, the following KB article...

Published Fri, Feb 27 2009 3:42 PM by Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog

Not Using "http://namespace#root" as BizTalk Message Type

This has come up twice for me in the past week: once while reading the tech review comments on my own book (due out in April), and again while I was tech reviewing another BizTalk book (due out in July). That is, we presumptively say that the BizTalk...

Published Fri, Feb 27 2009 1:45 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk

Extending Dublin's forwarding service with a custom WCF message filter

In a previous post we showed how to implement a basic WCF content based routing solution using the Windows Application Server (Dublin) forwarding service together with XPath message filters and filter tables. Even though XPath filters are a very appealing...

Published Fri, Feb 27 2009 8:21 AM by Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

Filed under: Architecture, SOA, Windows Workflow, WCF, Web Services, Microsoft, Web Services Interoperability, .NET Framework, Oslo, Dublin

ESB Guidance 2.0: Build Loosely Coupled Solutions You Can Be Proud Of

It is no secret that Microsoft has been working on bringing its Enterprise offerings up to date, readying them for the next generation of applications and services, and fixing small pain points that have vexed developers for years. In just a short while...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2009 3:19 PM by QuickLearn Team Blog

Filed under: BizTalk, SOA, ESB

Webcast on BizTalk Server and Team Foundation Server

I haven't blogged about it, though Mikael has mentioned it , but in conjunction with the BizTalk User Group Sweden meeting I released a webcast about how to use BizTalk Server 2009 Beta 1 together with Team Foundation Server 2008 to automate build...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2009 12:25 PM by Be Logical - writings by Johan Hedberg

Filed under: TFS, Webcast, BizTalk Server 2009

Custom Functoid output not able to link to other functoids

I developed a custom functoid and found the weird behavior that wouldn't allow me to link the output to another functoid. I found the reason here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.biztalk.basefunctoids.functoidcategory.aspx It states...

Published Wed, Feb 25 2009 10:49 PM by Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog

BizTalk Adapter Pack V2.0 - x86 or x64 Versions supported

Hi - today I came across a handy Matrix that describes the supported versions for the Biztalk Adapter Pack v2.0 Handy reference I reckon :) ---snip--- Compatibility Matrix Between 32 and 64-bit Versions of the Adapter, BizTalk Server, and Operating System...

Published Wed, Feb 25 2009 7:52 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: BizTalk, BizTalk/BizTalk Adapter Pack

Demos from VSLive SF

Had two great groups of attendees for my talks on Oslo and REST. Thanks a lot - and please fill out the evals, they do help shape who speaks and on what. Of course if you didn't like my session, you can feel free not to fill out the eval...

Published Wed, Feb 25 2009 1:27 PM by Jon Flanders' Blog

First Stab at Using New Tool to Migrate SQL Server Adapter Solutions

If you saw the recent announcement about the Adapter Pack 2.0 release, you may have seen the short reference to a tool that migrates “classic” SQL Adapter solutions to the new WCF SQL Adapter. This tool claims to: Works on the source...

Published Wed, Feb 25 2009 10:19 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk, WCF/WF

Receiving large WCF response messages in ESB Guidance

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] WCF bindings provide the MaxReceivedMessageSize property, which lets you block any incoming messages on the client side over a given size (defaulting to 64Kb). If you're using message-based itinerary...

Published Wed, Feb 25 2009 9:51 AM by Elton Stoneman

Filed under: WCF, ESB Guidance

Visual Studio Deployment BizTalk Binding Files

I'm always looking for these binding files so here's a note to myself: C:\Documents and Settings\<your account>\Application Data\Microsoft\BizTalk Server\Deployment\BindingFiles

Published Wed, Feb 25 2009 9:24 AM by Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog

Einstein Puzzle in Microsoft Solver Foundation

As promised in my last post ( http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/02/24/129639.aspx ), I had a look at the Express edition of Microsoft Solver Framework ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/solverfoundation ), and used it to implement the Einstein...

Published Wed, Feb 25 2009 8:03 AM by Charles Young

6: Missing or invalid or duplicate Transaction set identifier

This is really the EDI error version of multiple schemas deployed with identical Namespace#RootNode. Check the deployed schemas under your All Artifacts application

Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 9:20 PM by Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog

Cleanup BizTalk Servers MgmtDb

I've previously blogged about cleaning (emptying) the MsgBox database , something that can be useful in some scenarios, like development and test. While looking for something else the other day I found information about an equally useful procedure...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 12:27 PM by Be Logical - writings by Johan Hedberg

Filed under: BizTalk, Maintenance

Alternative SOAP Transport for LoadGen

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] Using LoadGen 2007 to submit messages with a complex SOAP header, I had a strange issue with the standard SOAP transport. The SOAP transport has two parameters for wrapping the input file into a SOAP...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 10:33 AM by Elton Stoneman

Filed under: MSDN Code Gallery, LoadGen 2007

Twittering, Tweeting? Its far too Confusing….

Ok, so I’ve finally sucumbed to the Twitter phenomenon and I’m now twittering, or is that tweeting? Eitherway, you can follow me over at http://twitter.com/nickheppleston if you are so inclined…

Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 10:24 AM by Nick Heppleston's BizTalk Blog

Filed under: General