Configuring the BizTalk application This is the final step of this process. In order to properly test the solution we have been developing in BizTalk Server, we need to configure the application that was created in the publication. Este %u00e9 a %u00faltima etapa deste processo. Por forma a podermos testar a solu%u00e7%u00e3o que tivemos a […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
Constructing a Flat Files Schema – Practical example For this project we will use the BizTalk Server 2010 and Visual Studio 2010, and explain step by step what needs to be developed. Briefly these are the steps we have to perform: Creating an instance of the text file that will serve as a test file […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
Necessary tools and artifacts As mentioned earlier, to solve this problem – BizTalk Server: Transform text files (Flat Files) into XML – we must create at least two artifacts: Flat File Schema: withall the necessary information embedded in the form of annotations in XML Schema (XSD), such as the delimiter symbols, or the element size […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
Mikael Sand and Gareth Kavanagh had an intresting chat on twitter which ended up here,this is an interesting topic. You have a ton of *nix based operation system, Linux, FreeBSD, RedHat etc. But how would these operating systems communicate easy with BizTalk? (this is dedicated to receiving since this is not an issue on sending)
Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl
Introduction Transformations are one of the most common components in the integration processes. They act as essential translators in the decoupling between the different systems to connect. This article aims to help you understand the process of transforming a text file (also called Flat Files) in an XML document using BizTalk Server Flat File Schemas. […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
The short, short version: A very good book arriving very late. If you have an implementation that uses Windows Server AppFabric (or AppFabric for short) then there is no reason what so ever for not getting this book. A definite 5 star!
Anyone remember the days when we called it Dublin and was afraid that Microsoft would topple out whole livelihood? Well I do and remember embracing it.
No matter how you look at it AppFabric is a good product and it is free, as in no charge. I cannot really understand why it did not take-off as it should have. Maybe it just got lost in all the Azure hype.
I would like to state that this book would really have improved the chances of it being used in enterprise applications. The book is just that good. but late. I wish I had this book in 2010 when I was trying to implement AppFabric and make it work like a “light and free version of BizTalk”. Others, like Jon Flanders and the ever working Ron Jacobs.
The book is following the, now established, pattern of the cookbook series from Packt Publishing; a short introduction, a description on how to do something and the a “how it works”. Sometimes they add a “there’s more”. I like this pattern a lot , however as I have pointed out before, you loose some overall continuity and each recipe can be a bit isolated.
The writing is very good and as always I feel that the authors are really knowledgeable about the subject and that they have worked hard to keep it simple. A definite plus in my opinion.
Installing Windows Server AppFabric
Getting Started with AppFabric Caching
Windows Server AppFabric Caching – Advanced Use Cases
Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Fundamentals
More Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Features
Utilizing AppFabric Persistence
Monitoring Windows Server AppFabric Deployment
Scaling AppFabric Hosting, Monitoring, and Persistence
Configuring Windows Server AppFabric Security
They pretty much cover everything even if you should really know something about WCF and WF to really have use for this book, but if you are looking for a way to host your WCF and WF-services I think you already do.
This book is very good if you already have some application(s) running on AppFabric or if you are considering hosting some existing services on AppFabric. If you do not then this book is of no use. To me it is a nostalgic trip on a very good product that I never got to use.
Once again: If you want to use, or have, AppFabric: Buy this book. It is better that the only other existing book.
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Blog Post by: Mikael Sand
With the introduction of Linq in .NET 3.5, the task of querying data became a lot simpler. In BizTalk, we often work with xml messages, so it seems like a good fit. This blogpost goes into detail on how to use linq to xml in a custom pipeline component.
Found an interesting article on fragmentation in SQL.
It explains the two types of fragmentation that can occur, namely internal and external fragmentation.
Internal fragmentation means that the pages are not completely full. While external fragmentation refers to the lack of correlation between the logical sequence of an index and its physical sequence.
For more details I’ll refer to this excellent blog post.
Source: Stairway to SQL Server Indexes: Level 11, Index Fragmentation – SQLServerCentral
Cannot activate your copy of Windows 8? Try running the command-prompt in elevated mode and enter the following command:
slmgr.vbs -ipk "ENTER-YOUR-KEY-HERE”
More info on Slmgr can be found here.
Blog Post by: Mikael Sand
I was doing some load testing from my laptop against a BizTalk application on a remote server, using LoadGen 2007 to generate XML messages that would be sent to a WCF service with WCF-NetMsmq binding hosted in a BizTalk receive location. After a few heavy tests I ran into an out of memory exception, and […]
Blog Post by: Johann