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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...