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BizTalk Server Team Blog — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:23:00 GMT

We recently started the Connected .NET blog , where we’ll focus on the Windows Workflow Foundation ( WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) pillars of the .NET Framework. You definitely want to follow this blog which targets to make content more...(read more)

InfoPath Rules Grouping Behavior (And New BizTalk Posters)

Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:06:27 GMT

A buddy at work is designing an InfoPath form and was befuddled by some awkward behavior in the way InfoPath executes its rule conditions. So let’s say that you want to execute the following comparison: “If the sum of the order is greater...(read more)

Adapter Pack Poster from Microsoft

BizTalk Adapter Development — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:06:00 GMT

Announcing the Biztalk Adapter Pack Poster We are happy to announce the availability of the new BizTalk Adapter Pack Poster. This poster covers interoperability with Line-of-Business Applications using the BizTalk Adapter Pack and the Windows Communication...(read more)

Announcing the Biztalk Adapter Pack Poster

BizTalk Server Team Blog — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:24:00 GMT

We are happy to announce the availability of the new BizTalk Adapter Pack Poster. This poster covers interoperability with Line-of-Business Applications using the BizTalk Adapter Pack and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) LOB Adapter SDK. This...(read more)

Creating Linked Server to Informix

Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:52:33 GMT

I was given the task of connecting BizTalk to an Informix database. When the project was first kicked off, the client started exploring their options, one of the companies that they looked at was Attunity . I told them that the Linked Server option was...(read more)

Adding a new BizTalk Server Isolated Host needs a new Application Pool

Random ramblings about Technology — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:29:00 GMT

Recently, we tried creating a secondary Isolated Host to separate receive and send processing for WCF. After reconfiguring the servers, we were faced with the "Receive location for address '' not found. (The BizTalk receive location may be...(read more)

Word Document Formats

Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:20:49 GMT

In generating an xml from a word document we were required to extract data from different formats. An example of each is below (the differences can be subtle sorry if its monotonous). The documents were generated by a software from White Hill Technologies...(read more)

Parsing Timecard from Word to XML

Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:11:50 GMT

We had to take a timecard that was in MS Word 2003 format and create XML. An example of the word document is as follows. The red box indicates text that was hidden in the document which I have made visible for clarity. The program reads through the document...(read more)

Here it is: the answer to all SOA and ESB questions....

Brian Loesgen's Blog — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:43:32 GMT

[[ OK, I am writing this with tongue-in-cheek, which for anyone not familiar with that term, means "not really serious"!!! ]] Funny thing happened today on the ESB project that I'm on.... After a day of hard work, solving some really tough...(read more)

Joe does SOA

Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:23:00 GMT

Tomorrow Joe Klug will be presenting a session about Microsoft’s Real World SOA vision at the Microsoft’s offices in Downers Grove, IL. As part of the session Joe will present a version of a demo we built last year as an example of how to use Microsoft...(read more)

Liberty Alliance awards

Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:17:00 GMT

For the last few years the Liberty Alliance project has published a lot best practices and specifications around identity solutions. Specifically, the Liberty Alliance has had a deep impact on Service Oriented Identity Federation solutions as a complement...(read more)

BizTalk Setup: System.EnterpriseServices.TransactionProxyException

Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:44:46 GMT

This is now the second time that it has happened, and I didn't write about it before. I am setting BizTalk up in a multi server environment where the SQL Server exists on a different machine. I got the following error after applying the configuration...(read more)

Changes to the WCF LOB Adapter SDK in SP2

WCF LOB Adapter SDK and BizTalk Adapter Pack — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:15:09 GMT

If you’re developing your own adapters against the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, then it might be worth your while to try out the June CTP of the SP2 of the WCF LOB ASDK. There are a few minor changes, but we might make more based on your feedback. I’m mentioning...(read more)

A Great BizTalk Scenario - Two Way Port being Serviced by two one way backend ports

Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/... — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:04:00 GMT

This one came from Paolo Salvatori (a senior PM within the MS Connected Systems Division Team... I know a bit of a mouthful) whom has gotten in touch with his creative side and drawn a picture for all us common folk :) - well done Paolo. The scenario...(read more)

Using BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/... — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:04:30 GMT

While building up some BizTalk R2 developer images I can across the answer to my question " Is R2 supported on 2008 Hyper-V? " Look no further than here..... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c5d86ad-5e17-4ff2-abc9-5a81177f4b30&DisplayLang...(read more)

Creating a PIDX Partner Interface Process (PIP) in BTARN 3.5

Jeff Lynch [MVP] — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:51:00 GMT

The next step in developing your PIDX / RNIF solution using the BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet (BTARN 3.5) is to create a new Process Configuration from your PIDX PIP. I’m going to use the PIDX “Invoice” and “Invoice Response” PIPs (P21 & P22...(read more)

BizTalk Services “R12” Release – Workflow

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:55:00 GMT

Drum roll please….for those of you are as interested in the advent of cloud services, this is big. Today, we released BizTalk Services “R12” Community Technology Preview (CTP). Just as a refresher : “BizTalk Services” is the code-name for an incubation...(read more)

Validating Schemas During Runtime

Stephen Kaufman's WebLog — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:59:00 GMT

I recently came across an interesting scenario. In my application, we are transforming multiple incoming messages to a a canonical format. We then take the output and place it in the MessageBox for some other downstream subscriber to process. The Mapper...(read more)

Our first UK SOA/BPM User Group Meeting

Saravana Kumar — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:21:18 GMT

Last night we had our first UK SOA/BPM user group meeting held at Microsoft office in London Victoria. Thanks goes to Jonathan Woodward, Michael Stephenson , Andy James for organising this. It was a good turn around for the first meeting, around 30 people...(read more)

How can I find the installed hotfixes on the server/workstation?

Saravana Kumar — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:47:16 GMT

Looks like a silly question, but recently I struggled to find the installed hot fixes on our server. We install certain hotfixes on all of our BizTalk server. One of the critical ones is http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943165 to solve the high CPU...(read more)