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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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This post is a follow-up to the previous BizTalk: Create Message based on deployed schema post. In the current solution I am working on, we are implementing the ability to run versions of the BizTalk application side-by-side. This will allow us to deploy early and verify the solution before any real...
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While writing my previous blog posting, I remembered that Paolo Salvatori had posted about another very usefull " Synchronous To Asynchronous Flows Without An Orchestration "scenario. So again I can recommend the article found >> Here <<
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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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A couple of days ago I finally had some time to install the beta of BizTalk 2009. One of the new features in BizTalk 2009 is the ability to debug maps. You will get the possibility to debug the actual XSLT that BizTalk generates. This is how the menu in BizTalk 2009 looks like when you right click the...
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Right after BizTalk Server 2009 beta was announced I worked on a virtual PC image to check this new stuff. I installed Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and of course BizTalk Server 2009 beta. When I tried to create a new Empty BizTalk Server Project in Visual Studio I ran into...
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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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The "For Standard and Branch editions, joining a BizTalk group is not allowed." failure was recently encountered by a colleague while configuring a new implementation of BizTalk. After trudging through countless posts, he came across the solution to this issue. When encountering this error...
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I was reading the post of Charles Young about Dublin and BizTalk Server - What's the difference? I can only say, it's really worth a read, and after reading it, you will probably know you will still be doing BizTalk and XLANG for a long time. The goodies mentioned in the article that come with...
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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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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...