Patrick Wellink

Excellent post of Charles Young about Dublin and BizTalk

Patrick Wellink — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:55:00 GMT

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....(read more)

How to expose an old style WSDL (Flattened) with the schema's included from BizTalk 2006 R2 with a WCF adapter

Patrick Wellink — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:49:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Interesting stuff coming with the BizTalk Adaper Pack

Patrick Wellink — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:52:00 GMT

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...(read more)

HowTo define a Custom Soap Header in BizTalk. Expose it, Consume it , even map them..

Patrick Wellink — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

New Style SSO Available on Codeplex

Patrick Wellink — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:28:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Choosing the Right Workflow Tool for Your Project

Patrick Wellink — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:14:00 GMT

And another interesting artickle here >> CLICK << about Choosing the Right Workflow Tool for Your Project...(read more)

Some guidance on BizTalk Testing.

Patrick Wellink — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:33:00 GMT

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....(read more)

Using a Bitwise AND in a BizTalk Send Port as a Filter Expression

Patrick Wellink — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:54:00 GMT

I knew this was possible but I guess a lot of people are unaware of this functionality. Somebody told me I should blog about it, so here I am adding another entry to my Blog. How to define the BitWise and in a send port. Define a property schema in biztalk...(read more)

Microsoft BizTalk Server Operations Guide

Patrick Wellink — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:17:00 GMT

This is a post from Microsft Download Center. I found it in my RSS feeds. (Don't know where). It's such a usable BizTalk document that I really don't want to loose the link so it's a reminder for myself. But a nice read (+700 pages) for...(read more)

Suspended Messages are Included in the Message Count in Database Throttling Threshold

Patrick Wellink — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:59:00 GMT

I had read this once but I couldn't remember where. But it can be of importance to BizTalk developers when they have the question : " To Suspend or Not to Suspend ". When you are faced with this question, remember that Suspended Messages...(read more)

Finally Project templates in BizTalk 2006 / BizTalk Template Wizard

Patrick Wellink — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:27:00 GMT

I have a certain aproach on how to solve common integration scenarios. It involves Process Services, Business Services, Receiving Interation services and Sending Integration Services. It's a clean way to set up an integration. Although it is a flexible...(read more)

The truth about Dynamic SQL and Stored Procedures....

Patrick Wellink — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:34:00 GMT

Well I am not going to say what's better or what I prefer, but I can only give my view of things. What everybody seems to forget is that an external person with very good understanding of SQL ( commonly know as a DBA ) can solve performance problems...(read more)

Some very interesting BixTalk/WCF screencasts

Patrick Wellink — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:58:00 GMT

I was looking at my list of Blog entries at bloglines and I saw an interesting screen cast from Aaron Skonnard I decided to have a look and was surprised to see how many extra functionality is provided by the WCF adapters. I decided to look at some more...(read more)

BizTalk ESB guidance Available on MSDN

Patrick Wellink — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:34:00 GMT

Yesterday it was my Birthday and how nice of Microsoft to give me what I really wanted .... The BizTalk ESB guidance is available for download NOW Go and get it here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e3957253-24ce-45aa-ac32-60abffe15bac&DisplayLang...(read more)

BizTalk V-Next

Patrick Wellink — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:28:00 GMT

At last they have shed some light on what the next version will be : Service Oriented Architecture • Deeper alignment with the .NET Framework – Building deeply on the investments made with Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation...(read more)