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At the moment I'm working on integrating the great Pipeline Component Wizard by Martijn Hoogendoorn into the BizTalk Software Factory . I decided to use a T4 template to get the job done. T4 templates are very powerful and easy to write (but hard...
It took me a while, but v1.0 of the BizTalk Software Factory is finally on CodePlex. You can get it from http://www.codeplex.com/bsf This first release took CodePlex/BASF developed by Dijkstra as a basis and added some functionality. Create BizTalk multi...
On the project I'm working on at the moment we're using custom exceptions in BizTalk. We have adopted the exception handling part of the ESB guidance and so the custom exception consists of a string indicating what to do next and an XLANGMessage...
On a blogpost by Yossi Dahan I read about a BizTalk tool I didn't know about: MsgBoxViewer Via Google I couldn't find much about it so I decided to unpack it and try it. This was a very easy process because it doesn't require any installation...
In an earlier post I wrote about Microsoft researching possibilities for BizTalk Server 2006 supporting the latest Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio releases. Today I read a blogpost by Richard Seroter who writes about a new release of BizTalk Server...
From the Microsoft site: The BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer performs configuration-level verification by reading and reporting only. The Best Practices Analyzer gathers data from different information sources, such as Windows Management Instrumentation...
I just read a post saying that Microsoft is investigating options for BizTalk support in Visual Studio 2008 and have BizTalk run on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. It is all scheduled for this year so that is good news! http://blog.paul.somers...
I was working on a PC on which I wanted to install the BAM definitions that come with the ESB guidance for exception handling. So I browsed to the <installpath>\ESB Exception Handling Install\Install\BAM folder to execute "deploy_exception_tracking...
In the past few weeks I have been installing the ESB guidance for BizTalk server. Yes, it took me a few weeks because it isn't as easy as clicking setup.exe. Of course I wasn't busy all day during that time, but actually it took me longer than...
While looking for something totally different, I found this very informational poster. It shows the various scale-out options for Biztalk Server 2006 R2, not in text but in very clear pictures. I assume the scale-out options are also valid for regular...
Yesterday I finally did the 70-235 exam, "Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006" and I passed it! Now I'm officially a MCTS for Biztalk Server 2006! :-) In the days before the exam I read...
This weekend I ran into some strange behaviour. I have an orchestration in which I do the following: Write a record in a database Read the ID of the record Send an email with that ID Wait for a reply Update the record in the database It took me some time...
For a customer I had a very simple Biztalk task: call a webservice from an orchestration. The thing was that the webservice was secured using SSL, but Biztalk normally detects that and everything works fine. However, in this case the SSL certificate was...
Have you ever faced the following error while exporting your BAM definitions to XML from Excel? Unable to export BAM definition. Transformation of Excel XML to OCW failed. Check if your Excel file isn't read-only...........
if you're familiair with BAM in BizTalk 2004, it is easy to notice the changes between 2004 and 2006 while setting up a BAM environment in BizTalk 2006. Changes can be found for example when defining the activities and views. Besides textual changes ...
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