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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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More a note to self than a serious blog post (haven't got the time to do screen shots and stuff). When creating BAM views in Excel, you can copy the initial PivotTable that is generated to create multiple predefined 'views'. To copy the PivotTable select it (go to the edge until you get a...
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Here is technique for generating an instance of a BizTalk message (a.k.a, XmlDocument) based on a deployed schema. It requires references to the following assemblies: Assembly Location Microsoft.BizTalk.Pipeline %Program Files%/Microsoft BizTalk Server Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM %Program Files%/Microsoft...
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Here is a little gem that I have come across recently... I have only confirmed this in BizTalk 2006 R2. If you create a receive shape with a filter expression of (BTS.Operation=="somevalue") and your namespace contains BTS. then you will get a build failure similar to: The type or namespace...
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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 to debug, as I found out). This post is dedicated...
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Here are some notes on customising exports created via the BizTalk Administration Export MSI file. Before creating the export, add any externally referenced .Net assemblies by adding them as a resource in the BizTalk Application's Resources folder: This will allow you to include the added resources...
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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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If you are working with BizTalk you know the dilemma, where do I store my configuration data. Could be on several locations. Have a read of this article to have some in-dept information . I created a base class SSOBaseFunctionality thad deals with storing and loading configuratioin data to and from SSO...
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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 project solution structures using a wizard Create...
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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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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, just unpack and run the GUI. It appears to be...
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And another interesting artickle here >> CLICK << about Choosing the Right Workflow Tool for Your Project
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Via BlogLines I monotor lot's of BizTalk feeds. And once in a while there is an article worth reading. The same with this article >> CLICK << from michael Stepenson. It has some interesting points about BizTalk testing. Worth a read.
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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 2006 marked as R3 is scheduled for the first half...
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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 (WMI) classes, SQL Server databases...