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Deploying a BizTalk web service using setup project
Sun, Sep 24 2006 1:14 PM
Here’s another thing we bumped into recently that took a lot of time to find and fix. In a project in which I’m sideways involved a BizTalk generated WebService was deployed using a setup project. These projects by default include all dependencies, which are all BizTalk assemblies. Deployed this way, our webservice did not work, without any error logged in either... Read More...
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Don’t close the original DataStream in a Custom Adapter
Sun, Sep 24 2006 1:07 PM
I have written a custom adapter over two years ago that worked a charm back then. Recently I had to use it again in a little project. It worked, but not when an error occurred on transmission. In that case it failed with the following errors in the eventlog: “The Messaging Engine encountered an error while suspending one or more messages” and “The Messaging Engine... Read More...
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BizTalk seems to be hot at Tech-Ed
Fri, Apr 8 2005 7:59 AM
Just came across this post on the newsgroups. 15 Sessions and 7 Labs dedicated to BizTalk, including at least 4 on BTS 2006. Mmm, last year I needed to perform on a chair to get a Tech-Ed ticket, I wonder what they make me do this year ;-). Read More...
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Doing cool things with the Business Rules engine in BizTalk
Thu, Mar 24 2005 8:35 AM
When I learned BizTalk 2004 over a year ago now, I also took a day to play with the Business Rules Engine. That day always left me with the feeling that you could do really cool things with that, but not a single occassion last year allowed me to put this engine to test. Now Microsoft published an interesting article about complex business rule processing up... Read More...
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The truth about large message support in BizTalk 2004
Tue, Mar 1 2005 12:07 PM
When BizTalk 2004 was launched, Microsoft announced that it supported large messages (into GB's). It was important to them because they broke the 4 MB limit that previous versions had. What wasn't very clear, is that this statement is mainly about the fact that they use streaming to handle incoming messages. Which also means that scenario's that can't be solved... Read More...
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Indigo and BizTalk roadmap
Wed, Feb 9 2005 9:05 AM
One of the interesting questions that raises with the release of Indigo coming is how Indigo and BizTalk will relate now and in the future. A roadmap was presented about that during the VSLive keynote . Surprisingly nothing was announced for BizTalk 2004. BizTalk 2006 will have an indigo adapter, so connectivity is arranged through that, which is a very natural... Read More...
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BizTalk FTP Receive Adapter might fail on large files
Fri, Jan 21 2005 9:12 AM
Just saw that my last serious post dates back to november 5th. A lot has happened in between, like a project with no internet connection (aaargh), two weeks of serious illness and some BizTalk deployment issues on one of my projects. It's one of those issues that I like to blog about. We use the BizTalk FTP Receive adapter to pull down XML files that might become... Read More...
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The fun of being 'in-between' projects for a week
Fri, Nov 5 2004 4:42 PM
I had a great week last week. The project I was starting suddenly changed direction, in such a way that BizTalk was no longer needed. End of project to me and nothing in the pipeline yet (apart from some open issues). Don't worry though, my days are filled for next week and on. But not with BizTalk. SharePoint is hot all of a sudden. I have 6 projects scheduled... Read More...
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How to do workflow in BizTalk and what happens to HWS
Wed, Oct 13 2004 8:24 AM
Scott posted a very interesting document about choosing a workflow approach with BizTalk. I was particularly surprised with the statement that HWS (Human Workflow Services) will not be extended or enhanced and ultimately removed from BizTalk (not in the next version, though). HWS will be replaced by the workflow tools that will be natively build into Longhorn... Read More...
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The Bloggers guide to BizTalk
Mon, Oct 4 2004 6:36 PM
Want to see the best of the blogging community? Alan Smith selected and grouped the most interesting ones and compiled them into a windows helpfile. The article is here . Read More...
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Wouldn't it be great to have BizTalk implementation samples of the Integration Patterns?
Fri, Oct 1 2004 2:05 PM
A while ago I though it would be great. In fact, there is already a document that touches part of it on the EAI Patterns site, but that one touches the ones that are quite easy. I was thinking about doing some more complex samples, both as a learning experience and a nice contribution to the community. But I just don't get around to actually doing it. Lucky me... Read More...
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Deploying a custom BizTalk Adapter in a merge module (and registry trouble)
Thu, Sep 30 2004 9:38 AM
I've been struggling the last two days to deploy a custom BizTalk adapter using a merge module. My idea was to deploy the binaries and add the necessary registry keys using standard installer technology and then run a custom script to register the adapter in BizTalk using WMI. It didn't work in one go. If you create a adapter project using the adapter wizard... Read More...
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MQSeries adapter release
Wed, Sep 29 2004 8:12 AM
Now this is something I could have used in my current project where I need to tie Oracle and BizTalk together. We now go via the filesystem, with all issues like no garanteed delivery, no garanteed message order, etc. We could have solved these issue much easier when we would have used MQSeries. The announcement by Scott Woodgate is here , the download is here... Read More...
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Why you need to change operation names
Sun, Sep 26 2004 6:38 PM
Kevin Lam is yet another Microsoft-employee that starts a blog about BizTalk. His introductionary post tells us why we should have unique operationnames in our ports. Turns out that if you don't the stress on the master-messagebox (the one you can't scale out) can increase dramatically, effectively lowering your solution scale limits. Read More...
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Funky BizTalk pipeline logic?
Thu, Sep 23 2004 4:02 PM
Charles Young describes some strange behavior in pipelines . The topic is quite complex but he manages to describe it in a readable manner. Very good job. It made me rethink about some of the issues I had in the past that I couldn't get to work in the way I expected it to. It re-emphasizes the value of knowing what is really going on. Read More...
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