BizTalk Server: Basics principles of Maps – Introduction to map editor (Part 3)

by community-syndication | Apr 1, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

The map editor, BizTalk Mapper Designer, enables us to perform transformations of complex messages in a visual and extremely simple way, expressed in graphics associations of links that define the relationships between the various elements of messages. These relationships between elements are internally implemented as XSL Transformations (XSLT – Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) which is […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Publishing an InfoPath form to Sharepoint 2010 for WebBrowser

by community-syndication | Apr 1, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Publishing an InfoPath form to SharePoint 2010 is not that difficult, that is difficult is getting it published, when it has code behind for the use in the Web Browser.

I recently battled with this, and I must say it’s better than it used to be, making InfoPath VERY powerful, particularly if you can use code behind, and even call your own .net dll’s from the form.

For most they have got somewhere, but have not got it fully working.. if you are one of these people read on.

Do you want to activate it in the site collection, but can’t upload it?

First you need to do this:

1. Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.
2. Click General Application Settings.
3. On the General Application Settings page under InfoPath Forms Services, click Upload form template.

You GET: ERROR: This form template has not been published. Open the form in the InfoPath Designer and publish the form to SharePoint using the Administrator-approved form template method in the Publishing Wizard.

Do the following:

Important: Ensure that the security and trust is set to full trust, with a certificate.

1. Publish the form to SharePoint from InfoPath.

2. Note down where you published it: http://msite/template.xsn

3. Go to your web browser and go to this URL, download the PUBLISHED template.xsn

4. SAVE IT locally.

OR

4a. Better way: Publish it to a network location say c:\MyFormTemplates, you do not need it in SharePoint YET.

5. Now upload the {template}.xsn, (Rename if you like) to SharePoint admin.

You should get: The form template has been successfully uploaded to the farm. To make the form template available in a site collection, activate the form template from the Manage Form Templates page or from the feature activation page in the site collection.

6. Now you can activate it in your site collection… etc…

Go to your site where you want to use the form.

Site settings / site collection administration

Site collection features

Look for your Infopath Form Template, (it’s sorted alphabetically)

Press Activate

THE KEY to enabling the form for the browser is in how you set up for form library…

Under Site/{FormLibraryName}/form library settings/ advanced settings.

SAY Allow management of content types = YES

Then hit ok.

Now go down to content types, and defined your content type, say add from existing site content types, which you just activated… You do remember the NAME of the form you uploaded in admin before??

Make sure that it is the default content type, and everything will be good.

Grant permissions to your users, and have them press new document, and up comes your form in the browser…

You can then put your workflow on the form library, or hook BizTalk up to the form Library, and you have full end to end Form and Workflow.

Merging details from two messages using a BizTalk Map

by community-syndication | Apr 1, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

A common problem you might come across in orchestrations is the need to merge records in two different messages together based on key data. You might even want to take it further and make it such that in those cases where there is no match for key data, you might want to make a record […]
Blog Post by: Johann

.NET: Microsoft’s new .NET language ’D-flat’ .net

by community-syndication | Apr 1, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Local MS Developer pillar Andrew Coates spilled the beans on this next new language
to come out of MS Research.

Db.NET or ’D flat’ – F#, C# and the Cinderella of the 3 sisters ’VB.NET’

(Last year I was introduced to F# over a 5 month project and absolutely loved the
simplicity and freshness of it – async was simple, tasks, functions and code that
would normally take 400 lines in C#, we were able to do in 100 in F#)

It promises:

– speed

– optimisation (I wonder if it’ll be smart enough to run tasks on different CPU cores?)

There is a focus on Orchestration – data Orchestration found here http://thenextlanguage.net/a-focus-on-orchestration/

Where it talks about “An example of the close collaboration between the product team
and the company’s research arm is the use of Schenkerian Analysis in
the compiler to maximize orchestration between sections of the code.”

Oooh I thought – let’s check out what this is Schenkerian Analysis and
a quick check of Wikipedia reveals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenkerian_analysis

“Schenkerian analysis is a method of musical
analysis of tonal music based on the theories of Heinrich
Schenker. The goal of a Schenkerian analysis is to interpret the underlying structure
of a tonal work. The theory’s basic tenets can be viewed as a way of defining tonality in
music. A Schenkerian analysis of a passage of music shows hierarchical relationships
among its pitches, and draws conclusions about the structure of the passage from this
hierarchy. The analysis is demonstrated through reductions of the music, using a specialized
symbolic form of musical notation that Schenker devised to demonstrate various prolongational
techniques. The concept of tonal prolongation, in which certain pitches determine
the goal of other, subordinate pitches, is a cornerstone of the pitch hierarchy that
Schenkerian analysis involves itself with.”

So tones, pitches and music is where this algorithm has its rootsI can see how you
could take this analysis when applied to the frequency of music and apply it to the
frequency of code items; data being hit etc.

I’ll crack open this VS.2011 extension and see what transpires

Grab the TOOLS here – http://thenextlanguage.net/tools/

Blog Post by: Mick Badran

I’m going to Amsterdam

by community-syndication | Mar 30, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Today I registered for TechEd Europe 2012. Last time was in cold autumn Berlin. This time it will be warm summer Amsterdam. Time to stock up on motivation, knowledge, contacts and also some “Bitter Cookies” and Heineken.

Last time I blogged my proverbial a$$ off and I can guarantee I will do the same this time.

Blog Post by: Mikael Sand

BizTalk Server: Basics principles of Maps – What are maps and where BizTalk can use them? (Part 2)

by community-syndication | Mar 30, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

BizTalk maps are graphical representations of XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) documents that allow us to perform, in a simple and visual manner, transformations between XML messages. We can enumerate the following standards used in the BizTalk Mapper: XML (Extensible Markup Language) – designed to transport and store data of messages; XML Schema (XSD – […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Encrypting Connection Strings in web.config using aspnet_regiis.exe

by community-syndication | Mar 29, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Sometimes you just don’t have a choice but to hardcode the credentials for a SQL connection string in a config file. I’m not cowboy enough to accept that storing a username and password in plain text in a web.config file is a good practice, so I started trawling around the web for an alternative. My […]
Blog Post by: Johann

BizTalk Server: Basics principles of Maps – Introduction (Part 1)

by community-syndication | Mar 29, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Introduction Maps or 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. In this article, as we explore the BizTalk Mapper Designer, we will explain its main concepts, covering slightly themes such as product architecture, BizTalk Schemas and […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Backup BizTalk: Don’t make ordinary Full backups

by community-syndication | Mar 29, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Off course you make backups of your BizTalk databases! You have set the Recovery Model from the databases to Full and every single day your Maintenance Plans or (actually) the SQL Server Agent jobs make Full and Log backups. So in case you need to restore your BizTalk databases, you are safe…
Well, I’ve got some news for you… You’re not so safe…

If you make BizTalk Backups like described above, you could be in deep trouble in case you need to restore. When it comes to making backups from your BizTalk databases, Microsoft supports only one way….

Read this very nice written blog on how to backup Biztalk Databases the right way: Backup BizTalk: Don’t make ordinary Full backups

Lab: Deploy an Azure App. and explore the deployment thru RDP | Exercice: Déployer une App. Azure et explorer son déploiement via RDP

by community-syndication | Mar 29, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

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Blog Post by: Benjamin GUINEBERTIERE