Recently, after a project requirement, i was asked to look into Windows Workflow Foundations and i found out that it more or less borrowed its concepts from biztalk server.
Tracking,persistance, rules engine, etc..are all almost same. However, workflow foundation is more of a language driven workflow (unlike biztalk, which is orchestration driven workflow)….
So, for a first […]
Check out the new BizTalk SSO Configuration and Troubleshooting Tool available on gotdotnet.
SSO issues are usually related to network settings, MSDTC settings, service settings, account permissions, account group memberships, etc. This tool generates a report about this information. It also dumps out all mappings of all affiliate applications. Optionally it can also output BizTalk configuration […]
Hi,
Many people have been asking me this question for a long time now…hence, check out my answer in my usergroup (http://groups.msn.com/BUG-i) as below:
UsingEncoded MIME message-Bydefault, the encoded mime message is passed to yourorchestration.You can get this message and then execute a series of Receive Pipelines in the orchestration to extract the different parts of the […]
I’ve just completed the Microsoft 2934 BizTalk 2006 Admin course and this was the first time I’ve installed BTS06 on an offline server instance (my UAT VPC machines always have an internet connection).
I was pleased to see that for offline installations, the BizTalk team have provided an option to install the pre-requisites from a local […]
The SOA Hub website provides a handy tool for all things SOA. They have a browsable list of available web services and provide tools to publish and test your own custom services.
The detail for each published web service includes the average response time, costs, provider and service details and links to test the service.
Some of […]
If you encounter this error when you try to build biztalk project that has some .xsd files, it means Visual Studio lost a link to a Biztalk .xsd compiler. Thus, you can just repair Biztalk Server then it will be fixed.
I had to post about this article when I saw it on thedailywtf.com – I’ve actually worked with (big public sector) customers who have consultants recommending this kind of thing…
XML vs CSV: The Choice is Obvious
My BizUnit Extensions project is finally live on CodePlex . Check it out here . Okay, so there are no releases yet, but this is a start and coupled with my context tutorial on codeproject means i have finally started giving back to the Biztalk community. The first release should be ready very soon and if you are interested, post comments there or email me and join up and lets see how far we can take this tool.
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In the previous post we started creating the c# class that implements the interfaces needed to develop a custom BizTalk pipeline component. In this post, we continue with this sample…
The next interface we will implement is the IPersistPropertyBag interface. Before we do that, we need to add two generic utility methods to read to & write from […]