Welcome Fran!

by | Apr 3, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I haven’t blogged a lot since two weeks, but this time there’s a reason: last week I became the very proud father (1st time!) of our beautiful daughter Fran. Last week was very hectic but now everything is stabilizing (at least that’s what I hope); she is getting to know us and we are getting to know her habits. Everything they say about having children is true: it changes your life … instantaneously and dramatically. But she is so beautiful, for more pictures check her “blog” (created in WSS v3 of course), it’s in Dutch only.

BizTalk 2006 R2 Beta 2 is Out

BizTalk 2006 R2 Beta 2 is Out

by | Apr 3, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

News is already out: Beta 2 of BizTalk 2006 R2, the first public release, is available for download. Just go to Connect and sign in to BizTalk Server 2006 R2’s program.

If you want to know what’s new in this release, I direct you to my presentation at TechDays 2007, a few days ago, available here.

This beta includes the BizTalk 2006 R2 package itself, comprising:

  • BizTalk EDI
  • BizTalk RFID
  • BizTalk WCF Adapter
  • WCF and WF Interceptors
  • BTS 2006 Accelerators
  • BTS 2006 V1 LOB Adapters
  • Product Documentation and Tutorials

As well as the .Net Line-Of-Business Adapters:

  • .NET LOB Adapters
  • Siebel Adapter
  • SAP Adapter
  • Oracle DB Adapter

And the WCF Line-Of-Business Adapter SDK.

Important to notice is that these 3 will have different release dates for the RTM versions, and that this beta 2 is an unsupported beta release. You can head for the forums for community support.

BizTalk 2006 R2 Public Beta released

by | Apr 3, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

So now everyone gets to play…!
Announcement is here.
Download it from here (you’ll
need to register for Microsoft Connect and/or sign in – but it’s free to register).
If you download everything, it’s a 558MB download.

This the Beta2 version.

So download it, and go play with all the WCF goodness…

What’s new in R2?

I’ll have a play with this new Beta and blog about my findings soon.

Public Beta for BizTalk 2006 R2 has released!

by | Apr 2, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication


 


We are pleased to announce the public Beta 2 release of BizTalk 2006 R2.  The beta 2 files are available from the Microsoft Connect site.   While there are numerous improvements to BizTalk, this release has three major themes:


 



  • EDI: The native support for comprehensive EDI and AS2 protocols in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will provide much richer data integration and management capabilities for our customers. The Base EDI adapter that comes with BizTalk Server 2006 enables the sending and receiving of messages using X12 and EDIFACT. Customers can leverage this base functionality in order to build custom EDI solutions.

 



  • RFID: BizTalk RFID provides rich data, device and event management, as well as open APIs and tools.  The capabilities allow customers to cost effectively build vertical solutions and configure intelligent RFID-driven processes. 

 



  • Platform Alignment: BizTalk Server 2006 R2 features improved alignment with 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista, including key .NET Framework 3.0 technologies such as WF and WCF.  This alignment will help customers access LOB data, as well as system-to-system or supply-chain processes from within their Office System applications (like SharePoint Server, InfoPath and Dynamics). 

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta 2 is an unsupported beta, however there are community-based support forums available for the release.


Regards,


Marjan Kalantar

Testing Multi-part Map

by | Apr 2, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Recently I was debugging an orchestration and found unexpected output from the map. The obvious decision was to use Visual Studio’s “Test Map” option. I opened the Map and realized that “Input” schema is multi- part schema.
 
Combining two xml messages into one file will produce the multiple roots exception. So, I looked at the […]

XRef XML Creation Tool

by | Apr 2, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

A few weeks ago, I spent quite a bit of time crafting the XML to load data into the databases. I have a tool that will do all of the heavy lifting. It is pretty self explanatory,you createa list ofapplication types, instances where youassociate it with the particularapplication type, create the IDXrefs and then create the elements. Here you choose theIDXref it’s associated Application Instance and the the CommonID and the AppID.Then tomake sure you don’t over write another set of documents, you give it a base name, choose the folder, and the folder you want to save it in, and it will generate all of the files for you, including the setup.xml file. If there are duplicates on either the CommonID or AppID it will add a period to the end of the data.

Here are some screen shots of what it does:

Which results in the following in the xml files in the directory specified

C:\sample\example.listOfAppType.xml

C:\sample\example.listOfAppInstance.xml

C:\sample\example.listOfAppIDXRef.xml

C:\sample\example.listOfIDXRefData.xml

And the best part:

C:\sample\example.setup.xml

If you would like this application, refer to the disclaimer on the right side of the screen, and then through my contacts page I will send you the application.

Consuming Web Services in BizTalk Without Web Reference

by | Apr 2, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Twice last week, I received WSDLs to consume that BizTalk didn’t like. That is, when I would try and load the WSDL via Add Web Reference, I’d get an error like the following:
Could not generate BizTalk files. Unable to import WebService/Schema. Unable to import
binding ‘WebServiceBinding’ from namespace
‘http://xmlns.company.com/interface/project/SubmitSubjectImpl’. Unable to import operation
‘SubmitSubject’. The element ‘http://xmlns.company.com/project/subject:subjectrequest’ […]