TechDays 2012-The Microsoft Integration Story

by community-syndication | May 26, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

At TechDays 2012 in Sweden we did a presentation called “The Microsoft Integration Strategy” (or Story), something that we have done in variations for BizTalk User Group Sweden and other events.

I am delighted to have gotten back the review which puts the session in the top 10 sessions (7th). Glad you liked it. The presentation slides are here (as a pdf). I’ll be happy to share the pptx if you want it, just ask (It keeps me up to date with other interesting presenters and events). The video should be available shortly (in Swedish though).

Blog Post by: Johan Hedberg

Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 is here

by community-syndication | May 25, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I know I am late to the announcement party but, in case you haven’t heard, Microsoft releated the Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 . This release is the second iteration of the product in only a few months which speaks volumes of the agile approach followed…(read more)
Blog Post by: gsusx

Creating a custom context menu item in Umbraco 5

by community-syndication | May 24, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

This blog post is about how to create a custom context menu item with Umbraco 5 (Jupiter). This post is based on version 5.2.0.1012 of Umbraco. Using plugins with Umbraco 5
In order to use plugins…

Daniel Berg’s blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

BizTalk Business Rules and complex XML structures

by community-syndication | May 23, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

The BizTalk business rules engine is a very powerful asset in an integration specialist’s toolbox, but it can be tricky when you are trying to operate with complex schemas as you try to get your head around how it works. The problem I will try to illustrate here is that the default schema vocabulary definitions […]
Blog Post by: Johann

Hosting a generic BizTalk netTcp endpoint in IIS

by community-syndication | May 22, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

This blog post contains all needed steps to create a generic BizTalk ESB endpoint, hosted in Internet Information Services, using the netTcpBinding. Windows Activation Services is required.

joined BizTalkAdminsBlogging.com

by community-syndication | May 22, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

My personal blog only exists for a year and a half now, but already has quite some visitors. Yesterday I was even asked to join another Biztalk blogging team on Biztalk administrator related topics. I already knew the blog and was a frequent visitor of the website. Of course I was glad to join the Biztalk blog team.

So, as of  today I joined several other biztalk experts on the BizTalk admin blog BizTalkAdminsBlogging.com.
This blog is dedicated to provide BizTalk admins with useful information, tips, example scripts and everything else that is interesting for a BizTalk admin.

I will still publish posts to this blog, but I will also write an occasional blog post for the BizTalkAdminsBlogging.com website… My first post on the site still has to be written, and any suggestions are always welcome :).

My profile on BizTalkAdminsblogging.com: http://www.biztalkadminsblogging.com/index.php/component/k2/itemlist/user/59-mitchvanhelden

BizTalk 2010: Creating TPM Partners through Code

by community-syndication | May 21, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Hi folks, recently I’ve been asked by several students on how to create Parties, Agreements, Profiles etc. via code in BizTalk 2010.

I played with this along time ago while at Redmond as BizTalk 2010 was in the process
of being released.

So I’ve just rolled up my sleeves and provided a quick demo for you – the demo shows:

1. How to enumerate and get at each of your TPM Partners.
2. How to create Partners + Profiles within BizTalk 2010.

Note: I’ve only tried this on BizTalk 2010 (& needless to say I’m claiming
‘works on my machine’ :))

What we’re talking about in BizTalk
This section here….

Show me the code….

Well the magic is found in this DLL –

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010\Developer Tools\Microsoft.BizTalk.B2B.PartnerManagement.dll


– create a VS.NET 2010 app (for this demo I created a console app)
– we make a reference to the above DLL (we also need to reference system.data.entity)
– set a connectionstring to our BizTalk Management DB, mine is BizTalkDB (as
I rolled all the BizTalk DBs into one – for dev)
– start enumerating.

C# Looks like this–

static void Main(string[]
args) { //enumerate
all the TPM Profiles in BizTalk var builder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder("DATA
SOURCE=localhost;Initial Catalog=BizTalkDB;" + "Integrated
Security=SSPI;MultipleActiveResultSets=True"); var tmpCtx = TpmContext.Create(builder);
Console.WriteLine("Connected
to BizTalk Global Parties"); var partners = tmpCtx.Partners;
Console.WriteLine("Number
of Parters:{0}", partners.Count()); Console.WriteLine("------------"); foreach (var
ptr in partners)
{ var profiles = ptr.GetBusinessProfiles();
Console.WriteLine("{0}
Business Profiles:{1}", ptr.Name, profiles.Count); foreach (var
profile in profiles)
{ Console.WriteLine("\tProfile:{0}",
profile.Name); } } tmpCtx.Dispose(); if (bCreateProfile)
{ createProfile("Breeze
Partner #"); } Console.WriteLine("Finished");
Console.ReadLine(); }

Point to Note: in the connection string I set ‘MARS=true’ just so we can enumerate
several collections at once through the one context. When updating or saving new,
partners and/or profiles I get errors and can’t save through a MARs enabled connection.
(love to hear if you have different luck)

Creating a Partner + Profile

//
need to do this through a single threaded connection - no MARS private static void createProfile(string partnerName)
{ partnerName += DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd-hhmmss") + (new Random().Next(0,
65535)); Console.WriteLine("Writing
a new Profile for {0}", partnerName); var builder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder("DATA
SOURCE=localhost;Initial Catalog=BizTalkDB;Integrated Security=SSPI"); var
tmpCtx = TpmContext.Create(builder);
var ptr = tmpCtx.CreatePartner(partnerName);
var pname = "Breeze
Profile-#" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd-hhmmss") + (new Random().Next(0,
65535)); var bp = ptr.CreateBusinessProfile(pname);
bp.Description = "Created
from Code"; var pcol = new AS2ProtocolSettings("BreezeProtocolSettings");
bp.AddProtocolSettings(pcol); tmpCtx.SaveChanges(); tmpCtx.Dispose(); }

And
that’s pretty much all there is to it folks, have a play around with the APIs for
yourself – all undocumented of course.

Here’s the Console App Solution I use (built for very demo purposes)

TPM API
Demo.zip (32 KB)

Enjoy Mick!

Blog Post by: Mick Badran

Guideline to Solve Performance issues of Biztalk

by community-syndication | May 21, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Typically a performance problem can be narrowed down to one of the following components of a BizTalk Server environment:

Use the following guidelines to help identify the components of the BizTalk Server environment that are performing poorly:

Once the poorly performing component has been identified, follow the appropriate guidelines to help resolve the issue:
Guidelines for resolving performance problems related to send and receive adapters

Guidelines for resolving performance problems related to orchestrations

Guidelines for resolving performance problems related to SQL Server

Sweden Windows Azure Group Meeting – Migrating Applications to Windows Azure & Sharding And Scaling with RavenDB, with Shay Friedman & Oren Eini

by community-syndication | May 21, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Wednesday, May 23, 6:00 PM, Stockholm

Migrating Applications to Windows Azure – Shay Friedman

Windows Azure is the next big thing for server-side applications and one of its major use cases is hosting existing .NET applications. However, Window Azure is not your regular playground and some preparations are necessary. In this session, Shay Friedman will take you through different ways to make sure your application is ready to move to the cloud. In addition, Friedman will explain how you can estimate the cost of running your web application in the cloud.

Sharding And Scaling with RavenDB – Oren Eini

From the get go, RavenDB was designed with sharding in mind. But sharding was always a complex topic, and it scared people off. Following the same principles that guides us with the rest of RavenDB design, we have taken sharding to the next level, made it easier to work with, performant and self optimizing.

Come to this talk with Ayende Rahien to discover RavenDB sharding, discuss scaling scenarios and see how we can use RavenDB in a high traffic scenarios.

Shay Friedman

Shay Friedman is a Visual C#/IronRuby MVP and the author of IronRuby Unleashed. With more than 10 years of experience in the software industry, Friedman now works in CodeValue, a company he has co-founded, where he creates products for developers, consults and conducts courses around the world about web development and dynamic languages. You can visit his blog at http://IronShay.com.

Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien)

Oren Eini has over 15 years of experience in the development world with a strong focus on the Microsoft and .NET ecosystem and has been awarded the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional since 2007. An internationally known presenter, Oren has spoken at conferences such as DevTeach, JAOO, QCon, Oredev, NDC,…

Are you using schedules/service windows in Receive Locations/Send Ports

by community-syndication | May 21, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

There are some challenges in using BizTalk administration console if you are taking advantage of schedule/service window capabilities in BizTalk receive locations and Send ports.

If you are one of those customers with lots of scheduled receive locations and send ports, then you need to take a look at this blog post "BizTalk Receive Locations/Send Ports with service window – BizTalk360 can make your life easy"

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Nandri!

Saravana Kumar