The document type does not match any of the given schemas – Encountered in an XML Disassembler/Assembler based scatter-gather scenario

The document type does not match any of the given schemas – Encountered in an XML Disassembler/Assembler based scatter-gather scenario

I’ve been working on a BizTalk solution which includes a scenario in which I am receiving envelope messages that are to be debatched in a receive pipeline using an XML Disassembler pipeline component, correlating the debatched messages which will be of different message types to relevant orchestrations where they will once again be batched up […]
Blog Post by: Johann

Unable to assign context properties to a BizTalk message until all body parts have been instantiated- use of unconstructed message

Unable to assign context properties to a BizTalk message until all body parts have been instantiated- use of unconstructed message

Some colleagues of mine called me over for some advice on a problem they were having in a BizTalk orchestration the other day. They were using a message assignment shape to set the bodies and context properties for a multi-part message which contained two parts which were to be sent out over SMTP on a […]
Blog Post by: Johann

When failure occurs!

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

BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP and Preview VM’s in Azure

BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP and Preview VM’s in Azure

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

Using System Colors in C#

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

Interview Series: Four Questions With  Shan McArthur

Interview Series: Four Questions With Shan McArthur

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

BizTalk360 version 5.0 BETA with exciting features, available for download

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

New Capabilities:

  • Monitoring Dashboard
  • Backup – Disaster Recovery configuration visualizer
  • Process monitoring for receive locations and send ports (aka silence/inactivity monitoring),
  • HP Operation Manager Integration
  • Support for Message Box Viewer (MBV) 12
  • Run MBV anytime directly from UI
  • Write alerts to Event Viewer (in addition to email, SMS, HP Operation manager alert)
  • Disable individual alerts

Enhancements

  • Clear exception messages during first launch
  • Select ALL applications during user access policy setting, monitoring setting etc.
  • Enhanced UI for monitoring sub-services management
  • Email template cleaned up, so empty sections won’t be displayed.

Performance Improvements

  • Better application loading times, trimmed down unnecessary data when not required
  • Improved Environment/Platform setting load times
  • Improved monitoring service by avoiding unnecessary DB calls and consolidated DB calls

Bug Fixes

  • Issue when same user assigned as super user both by Role and Individual user
  • Identity Mapping issue, when a user is removed from certain role.
  • Governance data filter in multi environment configuration
  • HTTPS end points monitoring when using test certificates
  • Chrome caching issue when new BizTalk360 upgraded to new version
  • Unable to set MBV schedules on Tuesdays
  • Typos and grammatical exceptions messages in couple of places

Earn $10 for each bug you report

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

Unable to create WCF client proxy from BizTalk generated WCF Service Metadata for a BizTalk WCF Service – Exception was thrown while trying to run a WSDL Import Extension

Unable to create WCF client proxy from BizTalk generated WCF Service Metadata for a BizTalk WCF Service – Exception was thrown while trying to run a WSDL Import Extension

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

Activation context generation failed for …

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