Patrick Wellink

Something you REALLY should know about dates ! (beeing Kind to DateTime.Kind)

Patrick Wellink — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:07:00 GMT

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...(read more)

I think this is a bug in the orchestration engine but I am not really sure.

Patrick Wellink — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:59:00 GMT

Today I had a very weird problem. I submitted a message via a WCF webservice and had an orchestration listening on the messagebox for that particular messagetype. The orchestration does some serious data-massage and needs to store the converted message...(read more)

Ntrace is available for Visual studio 2010

Patrick Wellink — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:16:00 GMT

Ntrace is a great tool for logging. It has virtually no impact and is blazing fast. Finally it's been migrated to Visual studio 2010. So now I can start building my BizTalk Bestpractice toolbox with it. The author of Ntrace can probably explain best...(read more)

Really nice BizTalk Admin tool, BizTalk 360

Patrick Wellink — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:10:00 GMT

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 !...(read more)

Removing unwanted namespaces from a BizTalk Map

Patrick Wellink — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:53:00 GMT

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...(read more)

XSLT Distinct another way to determine distinct in XSLT 1.0

Patrick Wellink — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:26:00 GMT

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...(read more)

xs:int and xs:integer, what's the difference....

Patrick Wellink — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:05:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Millions of records in the BAMAlertsApplication and how to get rid of them (NSVacuum to the rescue)

Patrick Wellink — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:22:00 GMT

As a BizTalk consultant I always implement BAM to do basic auditing. This is besides the BAM a business analist would want to see. The basic functionality of this audit trial is: When was the message received Where did it came from Where did it go What...(read more)

Getting rid of : WCF-Custom" raised an error message. Details "System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Timeout expired

Patrick Wellink — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:27:00 GMT

I had a nice setup in my BizTalk environment. I had 4 receive locations polling for data (in the same table) and it all boiled down to execute a stored procedure with different parameters. I used the WCF adapter with SQL bindings for that. For some obscure...(read more)

Download all files referenced in an xsd locally (+ Possible fix for BizTalk CS0013 compilation error)

Patrick Wellink — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:23:00 GMT

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...(read more)

My BizTalk infrastructure design baseline

Patrick Wellink — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:53:00 GMT

Today I found a great post about a nice BizTalk infrastructure baseline. It's always hard to specify what you need and why you need it. In an excellent blogposting Johan Hedberg explains what he needs and (more important why). Follow >> this...(read more)

Strange COM exception in BizTalk

Patrick Wellink — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:11:00 GMT

A while ago I had serious problems with BizTalk. For some obscure reason the BizTalk engine would throw some XLANG errors and stop processing all messages. A restart of the hosts would fix the problem for a while but after some time the same problem would...(read more)

Using XSLT Templates in a map (reminder@self)

Patrick Wellink — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:24:00 GMT

We all know that using XSLT inside a map can be very usefull to do stuff that's very hard to do with the mapper itself. Sometimes using XSLT it is the only way things can be done. I find myself struggeling each time to figure out how specific tasks...(read more)

Again a BizTalk Hotrod issue you should not miss

Patrick Wellink — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:57:00 GMT

Last week I stumbled upon the Tenth issue op BizTalk HotRod. I have looked into it a couple of times cause there are so much goodies in there. The items covered in this issue are: Creating Business Documents Automating deployments of BizTalk change requests...(read more)

Interessante Blog Postings

Patrick Wellink — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:47:00 GMT

Gedurende een bepaalde periode kom je op het internet interessante zaken tegen of zijn er interesante blogpostings gedaan. Soms google je wat en kom je een oude maar zeer interessante blogposting tegen. In dit artikel wil ik een aantal van deze blogpostings...(read more)