So over the years I’ve had my share of “meltdowns” or failures in BizTalk. I pretty much feel like I’ve seen them all, and I would like to contribute some of the errors and solution to this problems, call it a teaser since there is a lot, this will be the first post in a
Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl
I have just been looking at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2012/08/29/getting-started-with-biztalk-server-2010-r2-ctp-in-windows-azure-virtual-machines.aspx to understand some of the new features. I am not going to wax on about any of the new features here because other people are already doing a good job at this (See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2011/12/08/biztalk-server-2010-r2.aspx) but I want to highlight how refreshing it is to preview a new product […]
Blog Post by: mbrimble
When choosing a color in the properties window in visual studio, there is the possibility to choose from so called System Colors. An example for this is the color ‘Window’, which is the default for a textbox.
Now, I tried to set the BackColor of a Textbox programmatically back to this system color ‘Window’. Turned out not to be as easy as I thought it would be.
I tried things like Color.? … I hoped to find the color in this namespace, or even a System subsection for the systemcolors. Nothing to be found however.
Nor was there any namespace like System.Color to be found.
But how can these system colors be set from C# code than?
Well, one way turned to be using this command:
System.Drawing.Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.Window)
And, as you’d expect, the KnownColor enumeration contains all of the other user-definable colors.
Or even an easier method to achieve this is
System.Drawing.SystemColors.Window
Welcome to the 42nd interview in my series of talks with thought leaders in the “connected systems” space. This month, we have Shan McArthur who is the Vice President of Technology for software company Adxstudio, a Microsoft MVP for Dynamics CRM, blogger and Windows Azure enthusiast. You can find him on Twitter as @Shan_McArthur. Q: […]
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
We are exited to announce the immediate availability of BizTalk360 version 5.0 BETA. This is one of the comprehensive release for BizTalk360 with the following set of new capabilities, enhancements, performance improvements and bug fixes.
The development for this release is frozen and we dedicated the whole of September for regression testing, bug fixes and minor usability improvements.
For time being we got bullet list of features that’s coming in 5.0, over the month of September we will put more articles and video covering the topics.
You can download 5.0 beta here http://www.biztalk360.com/Content/beta
We wanted to thank people who are willing to helps and get excited about releases. So, we are offering $10 for each bug you report during the BETA testing period (till 31st September). The general guidelines and procedures to log the bug can be found here.
/Saravana Kumar
This week I ran into the most bizarrely annoying problem, and I found that there was very little information available to guide me. I had a solution that included a BizTalk WCF-NetMsmq receive location for which I had published metadata as well. However, every time I tried to generate proxy code, either using Visual Studio’s […]
Blog Post by: Johann
One of my colleagues
was getting the error.
Activation
context generation failed for “”. Dependent Assembly
Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture=”amd64″,publicKeyToken=”1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b”,type=”win32″,version=”8.0.50727.6195″
could not be found.
We thought
installing Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable package on machine should resolve
this problem so we installed the following packages
If you have been wondering how to create a Biztalk VM on Azure, there is a very good article recently posted on The BizTalk Server Team Blog. Check it out here. This post will walk you through the steps involved to create a virtual machine running BizTalk Server 2010 R2 (CTP) in the cloud.
Blog Post by: DipeshA
I recently ran into an interesting one while building some InfoPath forms for SP2010/2013
forms services.
I wanted to return some Rich Text (XHTML) fields back from a WCF
WebService call.
I was at the point as a developer, where I couldn’t even say ’Works on my
machine’.
The problem was – no matter what I tried, I would always have *plain text* and no
’richness’ of the Rich Text. Didn’t work for me.
So I have:
1) a basic WCF Web service – running on my dev environment.
2) an InfoPath Form that makes the call and displays the results.
The WCF Service:
This is the field that I eventually want to return as RichText to InfoPath.
Here’s the Service Method code (which basically goes into a file and returns back
a list of clauses) – just focus on the CONTENT = GetXHTMLRichText()
InfoPath and Returning a RichTextField
2 things need to happen for this to work.
1. When InfoPath adds the WCF Service to the form, it needs to ’detect’ the field
correctly when it build the underlying schema.
You need (nb – ’Content’ is my field name):
<xs:element minOccurs=”0″ name=”Content” nillable=”true”>
<xs:complexType mixed=’true’>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:any minOccurs=”0″ processContents=”lax” maxOccurs=”unbounded” namespace=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”></xs:any>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
Note the namespace on the ANY element above – this is the winner to tell InfoPath
that this is a richtext field.
2. When returning data via this field (in my case the ’Content’ field),
it needs to be in a certain shape, as in:
<Content xmlns=http://yournamespace>
<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Rich text here</div>
</Content>
Your rich text content needs to be ’wrapped’ for InfoPath to play nicely with it.
This was the purpose of my GetXMLRichText method as
The gotcha:
When I pointed InfoPath at my webservice and added a service reference I was getting
back a SimpleType for the field and not a ComplexType/Rich
Text field.
The WCF Service WSDL was ’almost there’ but not close enough:
The Content field described in a ComplexType which
is almost there, but not quite.
It’s missing the <xs:complexType mixed=’true’><xs:any namespace=’http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’ />.
The rest were good.
The fix:
Cutting a long story short, the simplest way forward here was to simply edit the form
components that InfoPath had built and correct the schema. Then reuse the form.
The form looks like this:
From the File->Publish->Export Source Files you can get to
the source and edit the correct schema (XSD) file.
Close the form down in InfoPath (or you may even need to close InfoPath) to edit the
Schema.
You may need to hunt through a few of them to find the right one. My file was GetKCCTerms12.xsd
Modify, save and close that file.
Right click on manifest.xsf -> Design to launch InfoPath and then
select Save As to work with it as *.XSN form (*.xsn files are just
CABs with all these files inside)
The final result as viewed from an InfoPath form – notice the bolding sent through.
Enjoy,
Mick.
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
To get started, you need access to a Windows Azure subscription. If you don’t have one already, you can sign up for Windows Azure 90-day free trial here.
To use this feature and other new Windows Azure capabilities, login to your account and sign up to use the preview features.
It’s easy to create a virtual machine that is running BizTalk Server 2010 R2 (CTP) when you use the Image Gallery in the Windows Azure Management Portal. This post will walk you through the steps involved to create a virtual machine running BizTalk Server 2010 R2 (CTP) in the cloud.
To learn more about Windows Azure and Virtual Machines, refer to this blog post.
You use the From Gallery feature to create a custom virtual machine in the Management Portal. When you create this virtual machine, you can define the size of the virtual machine, the connected resources, the DNS name, and the network connectivity if needed.
You can log on to the virtual machine that you created to manage both its settings and the applications that are running on it.
1. Sign in to the Windows Azure Management Portal.
2. Click Virtual Machines, and then select the MyBTSVM1 virtual machine.
3. On the command bar, click Connect.
4. Click Open to use the remote desktop protocol file that was automatically created for the virtual machine.
5. Click Connect.
6. In the password box, type MyPassword1, and then click OK.
7. Click Yes to verify the identity of the virtual machine.
You can now work with the virtual machine just like you would a server in your office.
1. Log into the machine using the steps mentioned above
2. On first logon, a few start up tasks will be executed. Wait until the SQL Server – Getting Started link is created on desktop.
3. The machine already has all the pre-requisites for running BizTalk Server from SQL Server to BizTalk Server installation to IIS configuration, etc.
4. Launch BizTalk Configuration Wizard
5. Use the basic or custom configuration and apply configuration Settings
6. Once configured, you have a fully configured and running BizTalk Server environment in Windows Azure.
The best way to get started with the offering is just to do some experimenting, developing and testing BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP on a Virtual Machine. This means you can deploy a Virtual Machine, perhaps as part of your new free trial and install BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP.
If you have any issues, problems, or questions, you can always find us on the help forums.
Blog Post by: BizTalk Blog