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BizTalk 2009 thoughts...

Have you had a chance to play yet ? Many folks have noted that a lot of the Visual Studio elements that have been present within BizTalk to support the development experience are no longer...quite so BizTalk specific! BizTalk projects now build upon C#...

Published Mon, Dec 15 2008 11:23 AM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
Delivery notification gotchyas...

Suppose you have delivery notification set up on a logical orchestration port (along with a catch block for DeliveryFailureExceptions). Gotchya 1: If that port is bound to a send port that executes the flat file assembler, and you send improper xml to...

Published Wed, Jun 25 2008 12:51 PM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
Slides on Unattended Deployments...

As I mentioned previously , I did some talks recently (user group, Teched 2008) on “unattended” deployments for BizTalk. You can download the slides here . Soon, I’ll be posting a generic Team Build script for BizTalk projects as well...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2008 12:03 PM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights, Deployment Framework
TechEd 2008 talk on unattended deployments...

Are you going to be at TechEd this week? I’ll be delivering an expanded version of the talk I gave on May 15 at the last Twin Cities BizTalk User Group. The talk (mostly demos!) is all about achieving unattended deployments with BizTalk using Team...

Published Mon, Jun 2 2008 8:00 AM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
BizTalk Hotrod Issue 4...

My article on “smart” use of XSLT within BizTalk appeared in BizTalk Hotrod Issue 4 . Once again, a great set of content thoughout this issue. The article talks about the “why and how” of using a “straight” XSLT approach...

Published Fri, May 23 2008 7:15 AM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
RAISERROR and the BizTalk Sql Adapter...

There has to be a better way to do this – if you know of one, kindly post a comment. Until then, here is a technique that will allow you to ensure that if a stored procedure that BizTalk is calling is unable to complete its work successfully, you...

Published Sun, May 4 2008 7:04 PM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
BizTalk 2006 R3...

BizTalk 2006 R3 was announced today! This answers the frequently recurring question of “When will BizTalk live inside of Visual Studio 2008?” Well, this release will make that happen…In addition, R3 will provide support for Windows...

Published Wed, Apr 23 2008 6:42 AM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
A BizTalk podcast with Jeff Brand...

I sat down with Jeff Brand from Microsoft to discuss “BizTalk for .NET developers”. We touched on how BizTalk fits in with a typical SOA effort, dealing with the learning curve, typical usage scenarios, and several other topics. Great fun...

Published Fri, Mar 21 2008 9:07 AM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
Race condition for MQ correlation...

This bit of documentation explains that when you want to send a message out over the MQSeries adapter and receive a correlated response, the typical pattern is to: Generate a value for the MQMD_MsgID property on the outbound message Set the MQMD_CorrelID...

Published Fri, Mar 14 2008 1:25 PM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
A bug with multiple hosts...

Wayyyy back in November of 2006, I wrote about a bug in BizTalk 2006: This bug is encountered when you attempt to start a BizTalk 2006 application definition with orchestrations that have been bound to different hosts. (Say, OrchA in HostA, and OrchB...

Published Tue, Mar 11 2008 1:07 PM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
Updated BizTalk naming conventions...

Minor update to the BizTalk naming conventions here . The big thing is that for a long while now I’ve thought physical send/receive ports should be named with just a plainly-worded phrase that will be as transparent as possible to operations staff...

Published Wed, Feb 27 2008 2:55 PM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
Monitoring BizTalk 2006 R2 with SCOM 2007...

I believe there is a problem with the "pre-converted" (from MOM 2005) management pack that is offered for BizTalk 2006 on the SCOM 2007 management pack download page . I believe the conversion started with the BizTalk 2006 (flat) MOM 2005 management...

Published Fri, Jan 4 2008 7:52 AM by trace of thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
BizTalk Hotrod Issue 2...

My article on BizTalk host throttling appeared in BizTalk Hotrod Issue 2 – Todd VanNurden and Sal Cincotta have done a great job with assembling and editing content, so be sure to take a look at the whole issue. I’m hoping to write a follow...

Published Thu, Jul 26 2007 1:16 PM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
BizTalk Hotrod Issue 2...

My article on BizTalk host throttling appeared in BizTalk Hotrod Issue 2 – Todd VanNurden and Sal Cincotta have done a great job with assembling and editing content, so be sure to take a look at the whole issue. I’m hoping to write a follow...

Published Thu, Jul 26 2007 1:16 PM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
Launching HAT with a specific view...

Have you ever created a custom monitoring or troubleshooting tool (or data store) for working with BizTalk, and wanted the ability to launch the HAT (Health and Activity Tracker) tool in a particular context? Here are the command line parameters that...

Published Tue, Jul 17 2007 12:47 PM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
Launching HAT with a specific view...

Have you ever created a custom monitoring or troubleshooting tool (or data store) for working with BizTalk, and wanted the ability to launch the HAT (Health and Activity Tracker) tool in a particular context? Here are the command line parameters that...

Published Tue, Jul 17 2007 12:47 PM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
Of empty elements & unexpected whitespace...

A flat file schema can be configured to generate empty elements for empty content – using the “Generate Empty Nodes” option. It seems that at runtime, the flat file dissasembler can generate “<foo></foo>” for...

Published Mon, Jun 18 2007 11:52 AM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
Of empty elements & unexpected whitespace...

A flat file schema can be configured to generate empty elements for empty content – using the “Generate Empty Nodes” option. It seems that at runtime, the flat file dissasembler can generate “<foo></foo>” for...

Published Mon, Jun 18 2007 11:52 AM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
VSTS Unit Tests in your BizTalk Solution...

We were having a problem with a BizTalk assembly (containing only maps) having a “project” reference to a standard C# library. As soon as the project reference was added, we were unable to open the maps – errors along the lines of “unable...

Published Wed, Apr 4 2007 12:08 PM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights
VSTS Unit Tests in your BizTalk Solution...

We were having a problem with a BizTalk assembly (containing only maps) having a “project” reference to a standard C# library. As soon as the project reference was added, we were unable to open the maps – errors along the lines of “unable...

Published Wed, Apr 4 2007 12:08 PM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights