Vierde KaaS-sessie op 23 september 2014 te Utrecht

by community-syndication | Jul 9, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Wij zijn verheugd u te kunnen melden dat onze vierde KaaS-sessie op dinsdag 23 september 2014 plaats zal vinden op de unieke locatie De Fabrique te Utrecht.
Blog Post by: AxonOlympus

Integration Hashtags

by community-syndication | Jul 8, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

With the recent name change from Windows Azure to Microsoft Azure, the old WABS (Windows Azure BizTalk Services) hashtag has become obsolete. It wasa risky hashtag to view at times anyway, given some of the dodgy meanings for “WABS” particularly in my neck of the woods – but that’s another story! So far I haven’tseena […]
Blog Post by: Colin Meade

Sentinet Extensibility – Custom Access Rule Expression

by community-syndication | Jul 8, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

In Sentinet, authorization and access to any virtual service is defined using an Access Rule which is a combination of authorization expressions and logical conditions.Sentinet provides an out of the box access rule composer with a set of common Access Rule Expressions like X509 certificate, Claim and User validation. In this blog post I will go through the steps involved in creating a custom access rule expression, register it and test it.

Top 5 Free Mobile Application Testing Platforms

by community-syndication | Jul 4, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

The testing phase of mobile developmentis critical to the success of any application, and with the multitude of variations in both hardware and operating systems, this stage is arguably the most difficult to manage and execute properly. Fortunately there are a handful of useful toolsthat assist with the distribution and testing of mobile applications withthe […]
Blog Post by: Chris Fedge

Combine normal BizTalk processes with Itineraries via a MessageBox On-Ramp

by community-syndication | Jul 4, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

In an environment where the Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit is deployed, a BizTalk Receive Location responsible for receiving ESB-destined messages is referred to as an "On-Ramp." In the Receive Location you need to use one of the Pipelines provided as part of the Toolkit, and then correctly configure the components of that Pipeline to determine the Itinerary and link it to the message. So you can use almost any location outside BizTalk as an On-Ramp but what if you have for example a normal BizTalk process with Orchestrations and you want to sent a message from one of the Orchestrations to the MessageBox database and use an Itinerary to process that message? You can’t use Pipeline Components once a message is already in the MessageBox. Therefore you need to create custom code in .NET that has to be invoked in an Orchestration to perform the steps that are normally made inside the Pipeline.

Steps

The objects that are used in the Pipeline Components are not described on MSDN so Reflector is your best friend to figure out which objects need to be used and how to invoke them.

The following steps are necessary:

• Create XSD schemas for the messages in BizTalk 
• Create a Map to transform the inbound message to a message for the ESB
• Create a Custom Component in .NET to set the context properties that are needed for the ESB Toolkit
  • In the custom component:
    • Resolve the itinerary from the Itinerary Store database
    • Determine the first Itinerary Service in the itinerary
    • Write the properties of the Itinerary Service as context properties on the message
    • Attach the itinerary to the message
• Create an Orchestration to process the inbound message
  • In the Orchestration:
    • Receive the message
    • Use the Map to transform the inbound message
    • Set the ESB properties with the custom component
    • Create a Correlation Set to promote the context properties on the message
    • Send the ESB message to the MessageBox database with a Direct Port
• Create an itinerary to process the ESB message

See Also

For more information on creating a MessageBox On-Ramp see:

• Creating a MessageBox On-Ramp in the ESB Toolkit
• MessageBox On-Ramp Code Sample

Going down under-BizTalk Summit 2014

by community-syndication | Jul 3, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

There will be another BizTalk Summit event in august in Australia. The early bird tickets are on sale now until the end of this month! The event will take place in three different cities: Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

I will be speaking at each of the events together with fellow MPV’s Saravana Kumar, Michael Stephenson, Bill Chesnut, Mikael Hakansson and Mick Badran on various topics around

Maintaining BizTalk BAM databases

by community-syndication | Jul 3, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

A must read for all BizTalk professionals! In this article I explain how you should maintain your BAM databases. If you don’t maintain them and you are facing diskspace problems, you won’t be able to remove the data in a supported way!

BizTalk360 version 7.5 released with throttling analyser, graphical flow, BRE viewer and Knowledgebase

by community-syndication | Jul 2, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

As usual we are keeping our rhythm and momentum in bringing a new version with valuable features every 3-4 months once. We are delighted to announce the immediate availability of BizTalk360 version 7.5, anyone can just download and try it for free on your own environment. Our existing customer can upgrade to the new version […]

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Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

Microsoft Integration MVP 2014 – 5th Time in a row!

by community-syndication | Jul 1, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Today I have received an e-mail from Microsoft with exciting news that my MVP status has been renewed again!

For me this is the fifth time to receive this award. The fourth year in the program has been an awesome experience, which gave me the opportunity to do great things and meet inspiring, very skilled people. I have had some interesting speaking engagement, which were fun to do and were