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With the announcement of BizTalk Server 2013 Beta Microsoft also announced the next minor version of the ESB Toolkit: v2.2 My experience with the previous versions of the ESB Toolkit was that the installation procedure was complex hence preventing people from using it. Microsoft already announced that...
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This week Microsoft released the first public downloadable beta of BizTalk Server 2013, which is scheduled to be released H1 2013. Curious about the changes in the installation procedure, I decided to grab a Windows Server 2012 VHD , Visual Studio 2012 and SQL Server 2012 to create a base setup for BizTalk...
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Tonight Microsoft announced the public download of BizTalk Server 2013 beta. I’m not going to relist the features because, they are perfectly described here on the blog of the Microsoft BizTalk server team . Formerly this release was known as BizTalk Server 2010 R2, but it was rebranded with a...
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In January this year I participated in a SOA architect workshop and after 5 exams I officially became certified SOA architect. The certification was issued by SOA schools which is an initiative of the well known SOA author Thomas Erl. It was a very interesting course which discussed concepts I already...
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Via a blog post it came to my attention that the BizTalk user groups of Australia and New Zealand organise a combined event around BizTalk Server 2010. It is called BizTalk Saturday . It looks like a very nice event, so if your in the neighbourhood you should attend. One of the presentations I found...
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This blog post is about several experiences I had when building my own Sybase adapter. Normally i would suggest to the customer that they should buy an adapter, but in this case that was not possible since the only good working Adapter for Sybase was produced by TopXML and they vanished from this globe...
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Last night the good news of BizTalk Server 2009 beta being public received me, finally! It consists of the following items: 12/8/2008 BizTalk Server 2009 Beta - Release Notes Document BizTalk Server 2009 Beta - Release Notes 12/8/2008 BizTalk Server 2009 Beta - Installation and Configuration Guide Document...
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Today I found a very intersting post about schema vesrioning and BizTalk >> Here << Basically it says, if you have schema versioning, just increase the version number of your DLL with the schema. BizTalk will then resolve automatically to the latest version. Just one of those things that...
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1. Create the schema that defines your custom header. This schema should be a NORMAL schema. (Give it a decent rootnode name) 2. Create a PROPERTY schema with TargetNamespace : http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/SOAPHeader . 3. Make sure you define a property in the PROPERTYSCHEMA with EXACTLY...
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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 object to store messages in. There was something...
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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.cmd". Unfortunately I was unable to...
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Yesterday it was my Birthday and how nice of Microsoft to give me what I really wanted .... The BizTalk ESB guidance is available for download NOW Go and get it here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e3957253-24ce-45aa-ac32-60abffe15bac&DisplayLang=en
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At last they have shed some light on what the next version will be : Service Oriented Architecture • Deeper alignment with the .NET Framework – Building deeply on the investments made with Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation by closer alignment of these technologies and BizTalk...
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If you are working with BizTalk you have probably used context properties for routing etc. Sometimes you want to inspect a message and see what the context properties are. Or if you have build a (kind of) ESB using the messagebox it would be nice to have a listener and spit all the messages that hit...