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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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Back in December 2011 Microsoft released the first CTP of the Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI. It showed what direction Microsoft is heading with bringing BizTalk like functionality to the cloud. Or to quote Microsoft: “Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs provides integration capabilities for the Windows...
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We all know Microsoft is putting an enormous amount of effort in their cloud initiative called Azure. It started with compute and storage but in the mean time it has grown and more and more products are released in a cloud version before the on-premise version is released. An example is Microsoft Dynamics...
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Here we go, some important stuff about dates.....(it's not only BizTalk related) I had a very simple scenario. Webservice Receives a request (with several datetime fields in it) Send the received message to SQL via the WCF adapter For some obscure reason some datetime values originating from the...
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It took a while but now I can proudly announce the release of v3.0 of the BizTalk Software Factory ! This version supports: BizTalk Server 2010 Visual Studio 2010 BizTalk Deployment Framework 5 BizUnit 4 BizTalk Solution Instrumentation Framework Opposed to the BSF versions for BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk...
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Today I stumbled upon a really nice BizTalk admin tool. (thanks google reader) Have a look at it >>here<< It's a kind of Silverlight BizTalk Administration console with quite a few extra's. Really good work !
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BizTalk is a great tool but sometimes the output is a little unreadable because of the number of namespaces in a document. This post is related to a previous post where I had to import a zillion schemas . Once I had those schema's imported I could map them but the ouput looked as the picture below...
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I had a requirement to map a buyer only if it was the same buyer throughout the entire document. The reason for this was that in the source document the buyer was defined in a sub sub sub node of a document and in the destination it occurred only once. So I ended up with several choices. Only map the...
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In case this helps someone track down a silly little defect… I have an orchestration that uses an outbound map on a send port. The map had a script shape that had incorrect xslt. Simply running the Test Map would have caught this one and saved me some time. The full detail of the Exception...
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I am busy creating schema's and exposing them as a web service. I always generate a client and try to post some messages and this time I was again surprised by BizTalk. (or should I say XML). When creating a schema you can chose several types for an element. Some of these are xs:int and xs:integer...
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In a BizTalk 2006r2 solution, we encountered a build issue with BizTalk where a map that referenced a particular schema was causing BizTalk to fail to build. The symptom was that Visual Studio would continually build until it ran out of memory. The cause of the issue was tracked down to a particular...
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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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Well if you ever end up like me with a XSD that has about a zillion includes ( schemaLocation ), maybe this tool is something for you. It is a pretty simple tool. You give it an XSD, and it will download all files that are referenced to your local system. It will parse the file names a bit and set them...
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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...