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Which Host does a Dynamic Send Port Use?

Something I’ve never come across before - which Host does a Dynamic Send Port use? There is no value displayed under the Handler column for a dynamic Send Port: Also, when you look at the configuration for a dynamic Send Port (in this case a dynamic...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 8:41 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, handler, host, Dynamic Send Port

How the extend a custom Xslt in BizTalk using EXSLT and the Mvp.Xml project

Lately I’ve been using custom Xslt more and more instead of the BizTalk mapping tool. I still use the mapping tool in easy scenarios when I just need to do some straight mapping or maybe even when I need to concatenate some fields, but as soon as...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 1:15 PM by .RICHARD

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, XSLT, EXSLT

BizTalk Assembly Redirection

Over on the BizTalk Gurus Forums, Richard Wallace asked for opinions on best practice for central business logic that would span over a number of BizTalk applications. One of his suggestions was to use .Net assemblies that contained this business logic...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 6:27 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk, BizTalk 2006, .NET Framework, CLR, .NET assembly

Failed to Serialize the Message Part, Ensure that the Message Part Stream is Created Properly

Encountered the following error today on a SOAP [Send] Port: Failed to serialize the message part “[PART NAME]” into the type “[MESSAGE TYPE]” using namespace “[NAMESPACE]“. Please ensure that the message part stream...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 9:26 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, serialization, SOAP Adapter

Fix to see C# Generated from Orchestrations in BizTalk 2006

In the good old days of BizTalk 2004 (who am I kidding?!?), compiling a project that contained an orchestration resulted in the C# generated from the XLANG/s to be placed in the same directory, allowing you to put your C# guru hat on and review the code...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 6:04 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, C#, XLANG/s

Error when expanding ‘Application’ in the BizTalk 2006 Admin Console

Yesterday we encountered a worrying blocking error when expanding the Application node under a BizTalk Group in the 2006 Administration Console: Failed to create ApplicationNode (Microsoft.BizTalk.SnapIn.Framework) Additional Information: Exception has...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 2:46 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, application, Admin Console, BizTalk Group

SOAP Adapter - Confusing error with an untrusted Root Certificate Authority

I recently wrote about problems with two-factor authentication and installing a certificate in the correct certificate store. Well, we’ve had similar problems, this time securing the transport link on a SOAP adapter, which resulted in the following...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 5:07 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, authentication, SSL Client Certificate, Root Certificate, SOAP Send Adapter

Efficient grouping and debatching of big files using BizTalk 2006

I’ve seen people struggle both on the forums and while consulting when in it comes to finding an good way of grouping and transforming content in file before debatching it. Say for example we have a text file like the example below. 0001;Test row...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 3:06 AM by .RICHARD

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, Tutorial, Sample code

Updating Existing Send Ports through Binding Files

When we make changes to our BizTalk environments, we always ensure that the changes are scripted so the Ops Team don’t really need worry about messing things up - as a result, we use Binding files everywhere. Normally, we do large scale solution...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 9:21 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, Binding Files

Removing XML namespaces - revisit

I have a old post on removing XML namespace from outgoing messages using XSLT in a map on the send port. Removing XML namespace is usually a late requirement that shows up during integration tests with for example legacy systems that has problems reading...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2008 12:25 AM by .RICHARD

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, R2

Clustering the ESSO Master Secret Server

I know I’m going to forget how to cluster the ESSO Master Secret Server, so I’m including a link to this technical article for Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004 which gives the most succinct version of the instructions to this non-trivial...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2008 8:35 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, BizTalk 2004, Master Secret Server, Clustering, ESSO

Does BizTalk have man-boobs?

I’ve just finished watching this webcast from QCon 2008 with Martin Fowler and Jim Webber. It’s basically their view on how integration middleware is used today and how we plan and implement our SOA and ESB project. Their main point is that...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 12:14 AM by .RICHARD

Filed under: Architecture, BizTalk 2006, Webcast, R2

Yet Another Non-Deterministic BizTalk Zombie Pattern

Victor Fehlberg’s article on Zombies has prompted me to blog about a similar problem I recently encountered with instances that have ‘completed without consuming all of their messages’ and propose yet another BizTalk Zombie Pattern....

Published Sun, Jun 06 2008 1:30 PM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, BizTalk Zombies, Non-Deterministic Pattern

Correctly Installing a Certificate for Two-Factor Authentication via the HTTP Send Adapter

I spent several hours last week banging my head against the proverbial brick wall while trying to identify the correct certificate store to be used for authentication by the HTTP Send Adapter - as the answer is a little obscure on the interweb, I’m...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2008 5:14 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, authentication, HTTP Send Adapter, SSL Client Certificate Thumbprint

A Web based version of the BizTalk Rules Composer

As part of a proof-of-concept I was working on last year, we needed to show that the BizTalk Business Rules could be created and managed via a Web Application instead of through the standard Business Rules Composer tool that we provide out of the box...

Published Sat, May 05 2008 8:55 PM by BizTalk, Toronto and PK

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, BizTalk 2006 R2

Speaking at KNUG - Karlstad .NET User Group

Yesterday I presented the MasterData Management using BizTalk 2006 R2 talk (I’ll soon have a post out with the presentation in English) I recently held at Developer Summit at the local .NET user group in Karlstad (KNUG). KNUG is a new .NET user...

Published Fri, May 05 2008 7:05 AM by .RICHARD

Filed under: Architecture, BizTalk 2006, .Net, R2, presentation

32-bit & 64-bit BizTalk Servers in the same BizTalk Group?

A customer is looking to scale-out their current BizTalk Group by adding additional processing nodes. The current nodes are 32-bit only and I’m keen to have them move to 64-bit for the new servers, with the older 32-bit servers being phased out...

Published Wed, May 05 2008 6:29 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, 64-bit, 32-bit

BizTalk to Incorporate Covast B2B Capabilities

A few days ago, Steve Martin announced that Microsoft have reached an agreement with Covast (the European software firm behind the Covast EDI Accelerator and the out-of-the-box Base EDI Adapter) to acquire their advanced B2B capabilities - this will be...

Published Tue, May 05 2008 2:47 PM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, EDI, B2B, Covast, Oslo, VAN, BizTalk R3

Using BAM for latency tracking in a BizTalk request response scenario

This post will try and explain how BAM tracking can be used in SOAP based request response scenario in BizTalk 2006. It important to notice that some of the issues discussed in the post are specific to the SOAP adapter and are non-issues if the scenario...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 6:35 AM by .RICHARD

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, BAM, Tutorial

Speaking at Developer Summit on Masterdata Management using BizTalk 2006

I recently spoke at the leading developer conference here in Sweden called Developer Summit. The talk was called Masterdata Management using BizTalk 2006. The slides can be found here. I can really recommend Developer Summit as a conference. Everything...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2008 1:33 PM by .RICHARD

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, R2, presentation

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