BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Solution file version issue when migrating your Build Script to BizTalk 2009

Michael Stephenson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:20:10 GMT

Ive just been working on upgrading the build generator to support BizTalk 2009 projects. While doing this one of the things i wish to do is to change the compile step to use MsBuild rather than dev env. I found a little issue which others who use MsBuild...(read more)

Cloud TV – Community Webcast Site Hosted in Windows Azure

BizTalk 101 - Back to Basics — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:48:17 GMT

I’ve been looking with Windows Azure for a months now, and thought it would be about time to launch my own Azure hosted site. Cloud TV is a community based website for hosting webcasts relating to Microsoft technologies. The idea for the Cloud TV project...(read more)

Microsoft MVP in BizTalk

Connected Thoughts - Thiago Almeida — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:37:27 GMT

A few days ago I received an overnight email from Microsoft presenting me with an MVP award in BizTalk. Needless to say I am very excited and happy about it! It is not often that this kind of news is blogged about by one of the best in the field before...(read more)

WSCF Blue: Beta-1

Santosh Benjamin's Weblog — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:22:32 GMT

WSCF-Blue, the WCF successor to the popular WSCF (Web Services Contract First) tool is now available in its first beta release at CodePlex. I’m delighted to be a part of the team working alongside guys like Christian Weyer, Buddhike De Silva, Edward...(read more)

I’m an MVP for 2009!

TimRayburn.net — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:46:51 GMT

A couple of days late, but I’m thrilled to announce that Microsoft has recognized me as a Most Valuable Professional again for 2009. I’m always immensely honored to be counted among this incredible group of technologists. MVPs are known around...(read more)

Rogue Service-Windows Created for Response Subscriptions in BizTalk 2006

Nick Heppleston's BizTalk Blog — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:34:15 GMT

Yesterday I came across an interesting production issue – a service-window that BizTalk Server 2006 had incorrectly created on a response message subscription due to the way it handles daylight savings time. Background to the Problem The orchestration...(read more)

Publishing XML Content From SQL Server 2008 to BizTalk Server 2009

Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:09:36 GMT

I’m looking at the XML capabilities of SQL Server a bit this week, and it reminded me to take another look at how the new BizTalk Server 2009 SQL Adapter (WCF-based) interacts with XML content stored in SQL Server. I’ve shown in the past ...(read more)

Data Types

Eric's BizTalk & HL7 blog — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:22:10 GMT

Data Type Description ST String Data: String data is left justified with trailing blanks optional. Any displayable (printable) ACSII characters (hexadecimal values between 20 and 7E, inclusive). | almost any data | TX Text data: String data meant for...(read more)

Delimiter Values

Eric's BizTalk & HL7 blog — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:41:08 GMT

Delimiter Suggested Value Encoding Character Position Usage Field Terminator <CR> hex 0D Terminates a segment record. Field Separator | (0) Separates two adjacent data fields within a segment. Component Separator ^ 1 Separates adjacent components...(read more)

Default Database Instance in WCF Adapter URI

Paul's Petrov Whiteboard — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:14:39 GMT

Recently during migration BizTalk project from SQL to WCF adapter had some rather confusing moment. After deploying to test environment WCF ports started generate errors like this: Failed to open Microsoft.ServiceModel.Channels.Common.Channels.AdapterRequestChannel...(read more)

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

Eric's BizTalk & HL7 blog — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:34:04 GMT

Event Type: Error Event Source: BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 Event Category: None Event ID: 8706 Date: 20/08/2008 Time: 12:55:30 User: N/A Computer: IN12620 Description: Unable to log message "An empty batch was received with fr..." to the event...(read more)

Interview Series: Four Questions With … Mick Badran

Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:31:00 GMT

In this month’s interview with a “connected systems” thought leader, I have a little pow-wow with the one and only Mick Badran. Mick is a long-time blogger, Microsoft MVP, trainer, consultant and a stereotypical Australian. ...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC Talk in Reading UK July 3rd

ScottGu's Blog — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:11:20 GMT

I’m in the UK today and tomorrow (on my way back from a trip to India for two days earlier this week), and am giving two tech talks while in town. The first is this evening at a London .NET User Group event . I’ll be presenting Silverlight...(read more)

A new BizTalk MVP is Born – Thiago Almeida

Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/... — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:57:19 GMT

He lives in NZ…he loves Auckland and he successfully got married last year… Ready to take on the world – I want to congratulate one of the hardest working BTS experts I know… He puts in a tremendous effort for the local community and is always ready for...(read more)

HIPAA 4010 to HIPAA 5010 Converter

Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006/2009 blog — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:30:42 GMT

We have developed a HIPAA 4010 to HIPAA 5010 converter for use in Visual Studio 2008. After installing the converter, the steps to use the converter are as follows: Place the appropriate 5010 HIPAA schema in the same project as your current 4010 HIPAA...(read more)

Unit Testing ASP.NET

Paul Wu on BizTalk Development — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:13:00 GMT

Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy. Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers. The ASP.NET Bundle...(read more)

WF 3.5 Hands On Labs Updated

The .NET Endpoint — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:39:18 GMT

The ten Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) hands-on labs were updated today on Microsoft download center for your coding enjoyment! These ten labs were initially posted when WF was new to the world and .NET 3.0 was hot off the presses. This past winter, the product management team worked with David Starr to get the labs converted to .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008, make the manuals consistent, and bring the VB.NET code up par to follow the same best practices as the C# code. Once installed, you will...(read more)

Visual studio crash when trying to add pipeline components to toolbox

Connected Thoughts - Thiago Almeida — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:51:35 GMT

I ran into a very strange issue today. After installing the ESB Toolkit, I tried to ‘Choose Items…” in the pipeline components toolbox: But every time I did that Visual Studio 2008 just closed without warning and the following exception appeared in the...(read more)

Dublin TAP program open for nominations

The .NET Endpoint — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:13:40 GMT

Microsoft is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for participation in the “Dublin” Technology Adoption Program (TAP). “Dublin” rounds out the existing application server capabilities in Windows by providing additional features to help organizations manage and run Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) services built using .NET 4. The TAP is a program designed for customers who have specific business needs to get early access to...(read more)

Many interesting tools and utilities for MOSS 2007 in codeplex!

Its my Place at my Pace.... — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:33:03 GMT

Without a doubt, SharePoint 2007 or MOSS 2007 is the most popular and sought-out skill from Microsoft Gold Partners and Customers across various industry sectors. Eventhough, Microsoft has been constantly upgrading lot of new features with latest service...(read more)