by community-syndication | Aug 1, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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by community-syndication | Aug 1, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
The new version of my PipelineTesting library is coming along nicely. I’m mostly
done with the new API, though there are still a few changes that I’m pondering about.
However, right now this is already implemented:
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Creating standard pipelines
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Creating pipelines from compiled types
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Building pipelines from scratch
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Adding document specifications and other things to pipeline contexts for execution
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Creating XML and Flat File Assembler and Disassembler components (only a couple of
properties are not exposed at this point)
I may still decide to rename a few methods and I’m considering providing an alternative
to the current MessageHelper class and its horrible interface. Meanwhile, here’s the
current state of the library 🙂
by community-syndication | Aug 1, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’ve been very busy since we shipped BizTalk Server 2006. In addition to fixing tutorial bugs for each of the documentation refreshes we’ve published, last August I relocated to Chicago with my cats and started graduate school. For the last year I’ve been working full-time from the downtown Chicago office while going to school part time, working on a master degree in design. You can check out the program I’m in at www.ID.IIT.edu. I’m in the Master of Design Methods program.
Here are some of the projects I’ve completed at work:
– Published the SWIFT Adapters for BizTalk Server 2006 documentation (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7A5D8E00-9F6C-4AD0-8D63-93555CD7CCDD&displaylang=en)
– Updated the documentation for the SWIFT, HL7, and RosettaNet accelerators for the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 documentation.
– Completed the SWIFT adapter end-to-end tutorials. These will publish to the Web soon.
by community-syndication | Aug 1, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’ve been very busy since we shipped BizTalk Server 2006. In addition to fixing tutorial bugs for each of the documentation refreshes we’ve published, last August I relocated to Chicago with my cats and started graduate school. For the last year I’ve been working full-time from the downtown Chicago office while going to school part time, working on a master degree in design. You can check out the program I’m in at www.ID.IIT.edu. I’m in the Master of Design Methods program.
Here are some of the projects I’ve completed at work:
– Published the SWIFT Adapters for BizTalk Server 2006 documentation (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7A5D8E00-9F6C-4AD0-8D63-93555CD7CCDD&displaylang=en)
– Updated the documentation for the SWIFT, HL7, and RosettaNet accelerators for the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 documentation.
– Completed the SWIFT adapter end-to-end tutorials. These will publish to the Web soon.
by community-syndication | Aug 1, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
It has been a while, and now that I’m recommitting to this exercise, I want to share some thoughts about the experience. I’ve learned a couple of things about writing tutorials, especially step-by-step instructions for enterprise server applications.
The BizTalk Server 2006 end-to-end tutorials were:
– Tested as code multiple times by software test engineers.
– The first content in my division to go through Threat Model Assessment.
– Challenging, frustrating, fulfilling, a nightmare, an inspiration.
The tutorials continue to be broken. The comments and mail I’ve received through this blog continue to surface problems with Tutorial 3 in particular, and there is a recurring problem with the starter file for Tutorial 4. I’m beginning to feel jinxed. I know we’ve replaced the Tutorial 4 starter file a number of times, but the file distributed continues to be the wrong one.
A couple of lessons I’ve learned from this experience:
– Never, ever, ever put documentation support files in the \SDK folder of the product CD. The \SDK folder is sacred, and it makes PMs and developers too nervous to allow the documentation team to change and update our files as needed. In the future, we will deliver the files in our own folder.
– I am not anything like perfect. 400 pages of step-by-step instructions, deployment and configuration variations, etc., and there will always be errors. Even if the number of errors are significantly reduced, there will still be issues with user experience of the tutorials, and for every ‘improvement’, there is an equal and opposite problem introduced.
– Not all steps are equal. In an effort to provide information around complex steps, I ended up with a lot of lame content around not-so-complex steps in an effort to make all steps the same. I also missed differentiating between information that users only need to be told once with information that needed to be repeated. This led to the current constantly repeated reminders in almost every step: click to see controls! click to learn more about the tools!
Next Steps:
– I have 2 bugs open now, the first to make the updated tutorial support files available from the tutorial download page, and the second to fix the Tutorial 4 starter page. Hopefully both will be resolved soon.
– When I have the time I will republish the downloadable tutorial instructions. Various build problems have made this a very time consuming task. Some of the problems are supposed to be fixed now, and I’ll find out if this is true or not. In the meanwhile, the most updated instructions are available in the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 documentation.
– I have a copy of the Tutorial 4 starter file that I manually fixed. It has not been thoroughly tested and officially checked in, but maybe it will help you today. I’ve attached a .ZIP containing the contents of C:\Tutorials\Lessons\BAS. (http://blogs.msdn.com/lizal/attachment/4173972.ashx)
by community-syndication | Aug 1, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Hey folks, I’ve been flat chat lately burning the candle at both ends getting ready
for my sessions at TechEd/Deep Dives.
In a *spare* moment – I am asked to do a Channel9 GeekSpeak session – talking
about Workflow
and BizTalk Integration.
(I’ve had my xbox360 confiscated for 1 month to help me get through
this month – that’s a story for another time 🙂
This session is on tomorrow morning – so for those of you feeding babies, can’t sleep
etc. I’d love to have you along for moral support as this will be my very
first session in Geek Speak.
So if you’re up for a 5am – 6am start Thursday morning I’ll see you there. Put something
Aussie in your nick name!
I’ll be posting the demo code on this post as well!
by community-syndication | Aug 1, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Failed to trigger compile-thread on the server.
(-1040) <Description for error (-1040) cannot be found. Please refer to the Trouble Shooting Guide for this description>
Resolution:
Restart the HIPAA service to clear this issue when using the xsd2edi.exe or compeif.exe
Don’t ask me why…
