February 2010 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

SBUG April 2010

We are just putting together the details for the SBUG meeting in April, the registration page is already open on the following link http://sbugapril2010.eventbrite.com/

Published Sat, Feb 27 2010 5:42 PM by Michael Stephenson

Filed under: BizTalk, SBUG

SBUG May 2010

We have an SBUG meeting in may planned where Udi Dahan (nServiceBus) will join us. Check out the following for details: http://sbugmay2010.eventbrite.com/

Published Sat, Feb 27 2010 5:41 PM by Michael Stephenson

Filed under: SBUG

No Intellisense with VS 2010 RC (and how to fix it)

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Patrick recently posted about something he found odd when installing the VS 2010 RC – which was that code intellisense for...

Published Sat, Feb 27 2010 1:47 AM by ScottGu's Blog

Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio, Community News

Must have hotfixes for BizTalk Server 2009 Developers

Hotfix for resolving issues with references between projects: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=977428 Hotfix for problem with orchestrations saying “The expression that you have entered is not valid.” when they are in fact valid: http://support.microsoft...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 11:05 AM by Be Logical - writings by Johan Hedberg

Filed under: BizTalk Server 2009

Day-long Azure Conference in San Diego, March 6th

The San Diego .NET User Group will be hosting our first Azure day-long conference on March 6th. This first one will be more overview level, we’re planning at least one other which will be more focused and deeper for later this year, and then perhaps more after that. For this first one, we will be covering: Azure Intro (David Chou) Azure Development (Daniel Egan) SQL Azure (Lynn Langit) Azure AppFabric (Brian Loesgen) And yes, the way it turned out, all speakers for this are from Microsoft...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 9:15 AM by Blog.BrianLoesgen.com

Filed under: SOA, ESB, Cloud, Azure, ESB Toolkit

Using XSLT 1.0 to summarize a node-set with comma separated values

Pure XSLT is very powerful but it definitely has its weaknesses (I’ve written about how to extend XSLT using mapping and BizTalk previously here) … One of those are handling numbers that uses a different decimal-separator than a point (“.”). Take for...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 3:31 AM by Gobbledygooks by Richard Hallgren

Filed under: XSLT

BizTalk: Compensation Model

BizTalk: Compensation Model Charles Young mentioned, the Compensation is one of the most under-used features of the BizTalk. [“ BizTalk Server 2006: The Compensation Model ” http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/articles/100424.aspx ] If you didn’t read his...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 12:34 AM by Biztalkien

Filed under: BizTalk, - Architecture, - Orchestrations

SQL Server does not exist or access denied : 08001 when deploying Microsoft.BizTalk.ESB.BAM.Exceptions.xml

When deploying the Microsoft.BizTalk.ESB.BAM.Exceptions.xml BAM activity (as part of the Core ESB Toolkit install) we ran into this error: --- OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or access...

Published Thu, Feb 25 2010 2:34 PM by Andy Morrison's BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk, ESB Toolkit 2.0

PowerShell Provider 1.0 Beta (hotfix)

A couple of people have reported a nasty bug in the PowerShell Provider version 1.0 Beta. The provider doesn’t seem to work when SQL Server (hosting the BizTalk management database) is on a remote SQL Server. Although we will have this fixed in the 1...

Published Thu, Feb 25 2010 2:09 PM by BizTalk Messages

Filed under: BizTalk Tools, BizTalk, Powershell, BizTalk Management

Conditional GET and ETag Support in WCF WebHttp Services

This is part ten of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Generating and including ETags in responses from a WCF WebHttp Service Adding Conditional GET support to a WCF WebHttp Service using ETags Over the course of this blog post series, we are building a web service called TeamTask . TeamTask allows a team to track tasks assigned to members of the team. Because the code in a given blog post builds upon the code from the...

Published Thu, Feb 25 2010 2:00 PM by The .NET Endpoint

Filed under: WCF, REST, 4.0, WCF WebHttp Services, WCF REST

ESB Toolkit 2.0 Portal 401 Exception

I had this exception in the Application Event Log after trying to bring up the portal in IE (after a newly installed and configured BizTalk & ESB platform): --- Exception information: Exception type: WebException Exception message: The remote server...

Published Thu, Feb 25 2010 12:57 PM by Andy Morrison's BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk, ESB Toolkit 2.0

BizTalk vNext features or WF/WCF vnext features?

Look at the next version of BizTalk 2009 R2, coming soon, and then think what else would I like to ...

Published Thu, Feb 25 2010 12:30 AM by blog.paul.somers.com

Filed under: BizTalk, Main Page, WCF, Connected Services

WSCF.blue 1.0.7 supports VS10 RC

WSCF.blue v1.0.7 now supports VS10 RC in addition to VS2008. There are no new features as such although v1.0.6 which we released a short while ago fixes a number of important bugs in data contract generation. Alex , our code-master extraordinaire, blogged...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2010 5:06 PM by Santosh Benjamin's Weblog

Filed under: WSCF Blue, Visual Studio 2010, WSCF, VS10 RC

Desktop Virtualization Hour - Coming March 18th

While browsing Microsoft's Virtualization site, I stumbled across an upcoming event: Looking at Desktop Virtualization including VDI? Thinking about Windows 7 migration; wants savings, but wondering about ROI? Join Microsoft, industry experts and...

Published Tue, Feb 23 2010 6:04 PM by QuickLearn Team Blog

Filed under: News

BizTalk Server: Handling decimal types with the xpath() Function

Last week, I spent some time looking at a problem with a customer's orchestration. In one place, the developer had made use of the infamous BizTalk xpath() function to assign a value in one message to a decimal field in another message. He got an...

Published Tue, Feb 23 2010 3:17 PM by Charles Young

Filed under: BizTalk Server 2004/2006

Survey of the .NET Blogosphere

Last week I undertook a completely unscientific study of the .NET Blogosphere (as much as I loathe that term), to determine which namespaces and classes people are most excited about, confused by, or frustrated with – at least to the point that they would...

Published Tue, Feb 23 2010 12:55 PM by QuickLearn Team Blog

Filed under: Blog, .NET Framework

Fast way to count rows in a table

I have had to look this query up a few times, so I thought I would write about it here: USE [ DBInstanceName ] GO SELECT st.row_count as [ Row Count ] FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats st WHERE index_id < 2 and OBJECT_NAME ( OBJECT_ID ) = ' TableName...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 5:27 PM by Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006/2009 blog

BizTalk:BAM Operations: brief summary

BAM Operations, a brief summary Installing the BAM infrastructure BAM infrastructure composed on the base of the SQL Analysis Services and the SQL Integration Services. The SQL Notification Service is an optional element. 1. Before installing BAM make...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 2:33 PM by Biztalkien

Filed under: BizTalk, - Architecture

Streaming pipeline and using context ResourceTracker to avoid disposed streams

Recently there’s been a few really good resources on streaming pipeline handling published. You can find some of the here and here. The Optimizing Pipeline Performance MSDN article has two great examples of how to use some of the Microsoft.BizTalk.Streaming...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 2:50 AM by Gobbledygooks by Richard Hallgren

Filed under: BizTalk, BizTalk 2006, Pipelines, R2, BizTalk 2009

After installing Visual Studio 2010 Get Could not create SSOSQL. To fix the problem, reinstall SSO or try 'regasm SSOSQL.dll' from a Visual Studio command prompt.

I rebuilt my laptop recently with Windows 7 and installed AppFabric, .net4, VS 2010, etc. When I came to configure BIzTalk 2009 I got the error in the subject line because the SSOSQL assembly needed to be re-registered. Follow the instructions here to get it to work http://tomas-simonavicius.blogspot.com/2010/02/sso-service-failed-to-start-after.html

Published Sun, Feb 21 2010 4:08 PM by Ewan Fairweather