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The guys from the well known BizTalk Deployment Framework have been working very hard lately. Last year there was a version 5.0 beta for BizTalk 2009 solutions and BizTalk 2006 developers had to use version 4.0. A few days ago they released a new beta of version 5.0 which supports not only BizTalk Server...
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Schema versioning in BizTalk is always a difficult thing to do. When small changes are done on a schema (for a new solution), but this schema is already in use by a solution which is currently in production, you have to be very careful. BizTalk defines the schema type of a message by the combination...
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Yesterday I had to connect a Delphi back-end system to the BizTalk 2006 R2 environment of my customer. Since this Delphi system could only call webservices exposed as SOAP-RPC/Encoded, I had to expose the needed schemas as such. While searching on this subject I found a good post of Tomas Restrepo on...
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Today I have started a blog on BloggingAbout.Net. Here I will be posting my findings on Microsoft BizTalk Server and .Net development. For the past five years I have been working with .Net (mostly ASP.NET) and Microsoft BizTalk Server and many times I turned to blogs for finding answers to tech related...
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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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Well some people are still not convinced BizTalk is here to stay, today some very nice information popped up in bloglines (my favorite RSS reader) about the futur of BizTalk. Almost every new technology MS has released are mentioned, to name a few: WCF WF Future plans Pub/Sub pattern StreamInsight Have...
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Microsoft released a demo VPC for BizTalk Server 2009. It contains demos and hands-on labs aiming for integration with Sharepoint Server 2007 and WF 3. Get it here: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Demo VPC The VPC will expire on October 1st, 2010. Update: The download seems to be corrupted, I got a CRC...
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When you are working with the Guidance Automation toolkit, you are creating all kind of wizards yoursef. Currently I am in the middle of doing so and after adding a specific recipe to create a Biztalk Project I got the following error :" project creation failed " So I tried to create a BizTalk...
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I have a solution where I use BAM to build a complete audit trail of a message flow. Custom components write a message to a predefined BAM view whenever you want it to. Normal points where you would use this functionality is in receive & send pipelines. And if an important business decision was made...
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Yesterday I co-presented at the Dutch BizTalk User Group. It was a talk about the BizTalk Software Factory and I did the demo. Afterwards I got the question on how to set the icon on a guidance recipe, like in the picture below. I had to look it up in the code but I found it. By blogging it now it is...
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The BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 , formerly known as the ESB Guidance 2.0 - is being released tonight (June 8th) to the web on the new ESB page in the BizTalk Developer Center on MSDN. This toolkit is a collection of tools and libraries that extends BizTalk Server 2009 capabilities of supporting a loosely...
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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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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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Ok, I have seen this error a couple of times on the internet. They all have to do with the same issue. And in my current project i stumbled upon this problem. I found a solution and thought it would be nice to share this with the community You have created an adapter with the AdapterWizard on codeplex...