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BizTalk integration with SharePoint is … interesting. Using the Add Generated Items… Consume WCF service might result in a proxy that will not build due to a bad reference. The proxy file Lists_schemas_microsoft_com_sharepoint_soap.xsd contains the bad reference. The reference in particular is...
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Just some notes on connecting BizTalk to SharePoint’s /_vti_bin/lists.asmx">http://<site>/_vti_bin/lists.asmx webservice. After using Add Generated Items –> Consume WCF Service to create the proxy and binding you might find that when calling the service a transport level...
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I recently presented at the Auckland Connected Systems User Group . In order to prepare, I created several examples of methods of using the rules engine. The sample solution is here . Included in the sample solution are: Various Vocabulary definitions including using a function in XPath...
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I decided it was about time I presented something at the Auckland Connected User Group … Recently I have been involved with two projects where the Business Rules Engine was exposed as a WCF web service. Though this is the basis for the presentation, most of the examples will be applicable to using...
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At the end of January the SOA & BPM conference was in held in Seattle . I intended to go there but I didn't get authorisation to go there from my boss unfortunately. There was a lot of information on BizTalk 2009, Dublin, WCF & WF. Lucky for me and I guess for a lot of other people that couldn't...
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Topics covered : Application Servers: BizTalk vs. Dublin Unit Testing in BizTalk Server 2009 Monitoring a WCF Service Using BAM: A Walkthrough Operations Management for BizTalk Governing the SOA Runtime with AmberPoint BizTalk monitoring and exception handling from any desktop Add Governance to BizTalk...
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Today I found an excellent post about BizTalk Protocol transition by Paolo Salvatori . It's absolutely worth reading if you have to work with Webservices / Single Sign On. He covers 3 scenarios: Scenario 1 – Messaging Only Scenario with a SOAP Receive Location Scenario 2 – Messaging Only...
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It is really nice to have WCF around. With WCF you are ready for the future. Unfortunaltely this is only true in a Microsoft landscape. The new style WSDL with the schema's no longer included is one of those enhancements that should be really nice. Unfortunately there are tons of software out there...
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I really can't wait for the BizTalk Adapter pack. Finally we get a good SQL adapter capable of almost everything. I had concurrency problems in the past cause the Adapter always has a transaction level Serializable. Now with the new SQL Adapter the transaction level is settable. Have a read of the...
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I was looking at my list of Blog entries at bloglines and I saw an interesting screen cast from Aaron Skonnard I decided to have a look and was surprised to see how many extra functionality is provided by the WCF adapters. I decided to look at some more web cast about the WCF adapters and learned very...
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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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I use bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/) to monitor several BizTalk related blogs. First of all, I saw a post of Jesus Rodriguez about some SOA Tips .Via his blog I ended up at the blog of David Pallman . Now this guys has some interesting tips on WCF. WCF Tips #1 - Service Interface Design WCF Tips...
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When trying to get the example in Instrumenting the WCF Getting Started Sample (BizTalk Server Sample) to run, I encountered the following error: Server Error in '/servicemodelsamples' Application. Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file...
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The BizTalk Server Developer Center has been updated to highlight integration with WF and WCF. Finally Microsoft has written a view articles on how they will include and use WF an WCF in BizTalk. Some things of BizTalk will cover the same features (e.g. BRE is very close related to WF). Reference Application...