BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Job @ Breeze: BizTalk /SharePoint specialist!

2010-03-13T10:48:46Z

Hi guys – Breeze is looking for talent that can hit the ground running in BizTalk and/or SharePoint. Being a training company we’ll skill you up further and you’ll be working on a vast array of cutting edge technologies. Ideally you must be Sydney based and full time preferred. If you’re up then drop Nicki a line – n i c k i p @ <no spam> breeze (dot) net Happy travels all, Mick....(read more)

BizTalk: Dynamic SMTP Port: Unknown Error Description

2010-03-12T20:50:22Z

Today I investigated one strange error working with Dynamic SMTP Port. Event Type: Error Event Source: BizTalk Server 2006 Event Category: BizTalk Server 2006 Event ID: 5754 Date: ******** Time: ********AM User: N/A Computer: ******** Description: A message sent to adapter "SMTP" on send port "*********" with URI "mailto:********.com" is suspended. Error details: Unknown Error Description MessageId: {********} InstanceID: {********} My code was pretty simple and the...(read more)

Project Plan Activities for an Architect

2010-03-12T19:45:09Z

I’m the lead architect on a large CRM project that is about to start the Design phase (or in my RUP world, “Elaboration”), and my PM asked me what architectural tasks belong in her project plan for this phase of work. I don’t always get asked this question on projects as there’s usually either a [...]...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2 Released

2010-03-12T05:24:16Z

I’m happy to announce that the final release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is now available for VS 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with ASP.NET 3.5. You can download and install it from the following locations: Download ASP.NET MVC 2 using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Download ASP.NET MVC 2 from the Download Center The final release of VS 2010 and Visual Web Developer 2010 will have ASP.NET MVC 2 built-in – so you won’t need an additional install in order to use ASP.NET MVC 2 with them. ...(read more)

BizTalk Performance and DNS

2010-03-11T19:04:31Z

We recently solved a performance problem that had been plaguing us for quite some time on one of our Test/QA BizTalk Application servers. Even if you aren’t experiencing the problem to the full extent that we were, I’ll bet I can improve your performance too – want to try? Here’s a brief summary of our problem: We have [...]...(read more)

Camtasia Studio

2010-03-11T17:16:16Z

Have you heard about this tool? This is a capture tool that records your actions as you perform them on your workstation, remote desktop, etc. It's made by the same company that makes SnagIt, etc. http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp I have used this at several customers to record our install and configurations of BizTalk and more - this can come in very handy to help reduce differences in environments (because you can go back and review exactly what you did in the previous environment) as well...(read more)

ESB Toolkit 2.0 EndPointConfig (HTTPS with WCF-BasicHttp and the ESB Toolkit 2.0)

2010-03-11T15:36:36Z

Earlier this week I had an ESB endpoint (Off-Ramp in ESB parlance) that I was sending to over http using WCF-BasicHttp. I needed to switch the protocol to https: which I did by changing my UDDI Binding over to https: No problem from a management perspective; however, when I tried to run the process I saw this exception: Event Type: Error Event Source: BizTalk Server 2009 Event Category: BizTalk Server 2009 Event ID: 5754 Date: 3/10/2010 Time: 2:58:23 PM User: N/A Computer: XXXXXXXXX Description:...(read more)

Event ID: 4119 An empty batch was received with fragmentation turned on

2010-03-10T22:49:44Z

I have come across this ‘INFORMATIONAL’ event log message a few times and after much banging of heads (mine in particular), Microsoft has a hot fix for the following message: Event Type: Information Event Source: BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 Event Category: None Event ID: 4119 Date: 3/10/2010 Time: 2:35:25 PM User: N/A Computer: Description: An empty batch was received with fragmentation turned on. The 1st 1kb of the message is MSH|^~\&|… Username: Time: 3/10/2010 2:35:24 PM However, when searching...(read more)

SP1 and the Oracle Adapter in BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0

2010-03-10T16:28:22Z

I experienced the following problem the other day when trying to configure a WCF-Oracle send port after installing SP1 for BizTalk 2006 R2. I believe the problem would show itself when using BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 as well, but I didn’t verify this. Here’s a text version of the error: ————————— WCF-Oracle Transport Properties ————————— Error loading properties. (System.MissingMethodException...(read more)

Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting - March 11th, 2010

2010-03-10T15:08:00Z

If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 11th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at 6:00 p.m. at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman Center Drive, Bloomington, MN 55437. I will be speaking on How to Create Windows Server AppFabric Applications Here is a write-up of what will be covered: You have heard about Dublin, now called Windows Server AppFabric, but do you know what it is and what it includes? Do you know how to create...(read more)

What’s New in BizTalk 2009 R2…

2010-03-10T12:22:22Z

We have had BizTalk 2006 R2, and now we will soon have BizTalk 2009 R2, so don’t get confused… and BizTalk is far from being replaced it only gets better. I’ve been looking at 2009 R2 recently, and I can tell you a few things about what’s coming, within reason, as most of this is still under wraps I can’t spill all of the beans....(read more)

SIMPLER Way of Hosting the WCF 4.0 Routing Service in IIS7

2010-03-10T04:20:25Z

A few months back I was screwing around with the WCF Routing Service and trying something besides the “Hello World” demos that always used self-hosted versions of this new .NET 4.0 WCF capability. In my earlier post, I showed how to get the Routing Service hosted in IIS. However, I did it in a round-about [...]...(read more)

Turn learning Office into a game

2010-03-08T16:58:00Z

After spending hours learning to play the fake guitar simply to get a higher score, I often wondered why someone couldn’t make a game to learn useful skills. Where’s arithmetic Hero? Going-to-bed-on-time Hero? Microsoft Office Ribbon Hero? Well, at least the last one finally exists. Microsoft Ribbon Hero lets you learn to use the Microsoft Ribbon and earn points while doing it. They even have Facebook integration so you can compete against your friends and coworkers. (My FB account is...(read more)

New CTP Available for Download: WF Migration Kit

2010-03-08T15:47:42Z

Happy Monday! It’s an exciting time here as we start ramping up for launch next month. Within the product group, there has been a flurry of activity as they squash their bugs, and the final polish is being placed on the Visual Studio release. In the business group, we’re busy finalizing web content and launch material that you’ll start seeing over the next few months. On Friday, in preparation of the release of the new Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) runtime in .NET 4 (WF4), the team has released...(read more)

Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes)

2010-03-08T08:07:29Z

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] We are continuing to make progress on shipping Visual Studio 2010. I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has downloaded and tried out the VS 2010 Release Candidate, and especially to those who have sent us feedback or reported issues with it. This data has been invaluable in helping us find and fix remaining bugs before we ship the final release. Last month...(read more)

A few announcements for those in the UK

2010-03-08T07:04:30Z

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK. I’ll be presenting in Glasgow, Scotland on March 25th I’m doing a free 5 hour presentation in Glasgow on March 25th. I’ll be covering VS 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET Web Forms 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, Silverlight and potentially show off a few new things that haven’t been announced yet. You can learn more about...(read more)

Form, function and complexity in rule processing

2010-03-06T19:39:25Z

Tim Bass posted on ‘ Orwellian Event Processing ’. I was involved in a heated exchange in the comments, and he has more recently published a post entitled ‘ Disadvantages of Rule-Based Systems (Part 1) ’. Whatever the rights and wrongs of our exchange, it clearly failed to generate any agreement or understanding of our different positions. I don't particularly want to promote further argument of that kind, but I do want to take the opportunity of offering a different perspective on rule-processing...(read more)

San Diego:Windows Azure Conference is Tomorrow!

2010-03-05T18:59:38Z

San Diegans, time is running out, the Windows Azure conference (I blogged about it here ) is *tomorrow*. This is a great opportunity to ramp-up quickly on what Windows Azure is, and how it can be used in the real world. Come see why everyone is so excited, and why everyone agrees that this is a major shift in our industry. This is not future-tech, the cloud isn’t vapor anymore :) – this is live and production-ready today. I will be presenting on Windows Azure platform AppFabric, and specifically...(read more)

PowerShell provider supports BRE deployments

2010-03-05T08:59:59Z

Just a quick link to a post on Maxime’s blog: http://maxime-labelle.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D8D9369449D177DA!236.entry Maxime added support for deploying vocabularies and policies to the PowerShell provider for BizTalk. In our opinion this is the easiest way to deploy BRE artefacts. For now it is only available when you grab and build the latest sources. It will be included in the final [...]...(read more)

More on untyped messages and Business Rules Engine

2010-03-04T13:19:05Z

I a previous post I described a way to deal with untyped messages in the Business Rule Engine. This allows for flexibility in scenarios where you want to use a single set of rules (lets call it an “untyped policy”) on multiple types of messages. Untyped policies work great when tested directly in the Business Rules [...]...(read more)