BizTalk360 improved User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) in 7.2

One of the things we are very passionate in BizTalk360 is the user experience. That’s one of the reason we invested heavily last year moving from Silverlight based UI to modern HTML5 based single page interface. Out of the box BizTalk server comes with BizTalk admin console, a standard MMC based snap-in, which is15 years […]

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Blog Post by: Sriram Hariharan

ESB Toolkit Tip #1: Create a Custom Extender for an Itinerary Service

In an Itinerary Service you can use a Resolver for dynamically resolving endpoint information and BizTalk Maps. Most of the times when you create a custom Itinerary Service you want to transform or send your message but there are also cases that you want to do something else like logging or validating your message. In that case Resolvers are not useful because the properties and data that they return contain endpoint information and maps.
The Itinerary Designer in Visual Studio fortunately allows you to create custom extenders for Itinerary Service model elements that can be used to add properties to the property bag for use by Orchestration-based Itinerary Services. Through this you no longer need to use a Resolver to feed your Orchestration with dynamic data because you can set the properties directly on the Itinerary Service.

 

Figure 1. Itinerary with an Itinerary Service that uses a custom Extender.
 
Figure 2. Itinerary Service Properties.
 

 

See Also

For more information see: Creating a Custom Extender for an Orchestration-Based Itinerary Service

Rich Schema View in BizTalk360

There is no reason to explain how important schemas are for BizTalk server solutions. The structure of the message whether you are using XML or Flat File is defined in a XSD schema in BizTalk server, schema’s will also contain some important aspect like property promotion details. When you are doing some administration/operations work, from […]

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Blog Post by: Sriram Hariharan

Sentinet-Service Virtualization Part 5 – BizTalk Server

In the previous post I have discussed the benefits of the service virtualization concept for BizTalk applications that have to provide many alternative endpoints configured with different security requirements. I have demonstrated how Sentinet provides easy means to achieve this goal where I configured Sentinet virtual service with two endpoints that route messages to the same single BizTalk