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1 of 386 | ESB Guidance 2.0 (CTP) - There’s an announcement around for the ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP (October 2008) . It’s good to know that this is already getting worked on to have new features and work with the upcoming BizTalk Server 2009. The strange thing is that I can’t actually find...(read more)...

2 of 386 | Handle the "bodyTypeAssemblyQualifiedName" SOAP Adapter bug in MSBuild as a RegEx ninja - This is a very specific problem but I’m sure some of you stumbled over it. When disassembling a XML message in a SOAP port BizTalk can’t read the message type. This causes problems when for example trying to handle an envelope message and...(read more)...

3 of 386 | Source Code For BizTalk Rules Authorization Manager - Back on the old Microsoft blog, I built and demonstrated a tool that exploits the built-in (but hidden) BizTalk Business Rules Engine API for securing access to business rules. I have a link to this Rules Authorization Manager on the downloads page of...(read more)...

4 of 386 | Visual Studio Crashes When Debugging SharePoint Workflow - This has happened to me in the past - sometimes randomly, sometimes consistently. After a quick search I found that all you need to do is make sure you select "Workflow" as the type of code you want to attach to, as described nicely in this...(read more)...

5 of 386 | Latest version of the Microsoft ESB Guidance announced - The Enterprise Service Bus Guidance is Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices and the Connected Systems Division’s implementation of an ESB using BizTalk Server and the Enterprise Library. Not only the guidance implements a wide range of ESB scenarios, it...(read more)...

6 of 386 | Configuration issues with BizTalk Server - So we're running our development environment on a virtual environment and the team that setup the environment setup one Windows 2003 server as a base and then cloned this multiple times. One of these clones became our BizTalk server and another one...(read more)...

7 of 386 | "Oslo"==SOA++? - In my last post I wrote "Oslo" == Windows Registry++, to describe the simplicity of "Oslo". I also said " the simplicity of "Oslo" is what makes up its complexity ". SOA has different impact upon different roles...(read more)...

8 of 386 | "Oslo"==Windows Registry(++)? - So finally, Microsoft revealed "Oslo" . There has been so much rumors about what it is. Starting of at the SOA & BPM conference last year, "Oslo" was to be the next generation of BizTalk. For some time now, it's been clear...(read more)...

9 of 386 | Using BizUnitExtensions to poke around in some XML - I’ll start by saying that I really (like in "really, really!") like BizUnit! BizUnit in combination with MSBuild, NUnit and CruiseControl.NET has really changed the way work and how I feel about work in general and BizTalk development in...(read more)...

10 of 386 | PDC2008: Introducing BizTalk Express, sorry, Dublin - Just at a session on BizTalk Express , sorry Dublin… Dublin is a set of extensions to Web Application Server (WAS) also known as Web Process Activation Server (also WAS) – confused yet?! Basically, Dublin allows hosting of WCF/WF services/workflows on...(read more)...

11 of 386 | BizTalk Server 2009 CTP comming up - One of the things we have learned at PDC is that BizTalk Server 2009 will most likely be released as a CTP very soon. It's not available now, but "two weeks" was a number mentioned by Mike Woods, PM on the BizTalk Server team ....( read...(read more)...

12 of 386 | PDC Pre-Con - WCF - PDC Pre-con Conference Tip #1 : A Pre-Con is an introduction. At least the first part of the pre-con will be taking it from the beginning. Don't be dissapointed if you feel you know all the stuff they say during the first hour or two. Conference Tip...(read more)...

13 of 386 | Announcing the WCF REST Starter Kit! - I am pleased to announce the release of the WCF REST Starter Kit today on CodePlex.  The folks on the WCF team have been working hard on this for several months and it is exciting to see it released.  WCF has always had, and will continue to have, great support for SOAP and WS-*.  But Representational State Transfer , or "REST" is becoming popular these days in many circles and we want WCF to have great support for both web services programming models.  Because of the...(read more)...

14 of 386 | Blogical Sftp Adapter - New release - Johan Hedberg has updated the Sftp adapter with various features such as: Supports file Rename on top of the default Delete behavior for Receive, with macro support - you can specify eg. %SourceFileName%.old for rename name. Support for a temporary filename...(read more)...

15 of 386 | Blogical SFTP Adapter v1.3 - I've updated the Blogical SFTP Adapter previously released to codeplex by Mikael to include a couple of new features that have been requested and developed for or by customers or community. The abaility to leave files on the source server and rename...(read more)...

16 of 386 | Screencasts: Workflow (WF) Screencast Series - As part of Pluralsight's WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series , my colleague and friend Matt Milner has been busy building the "getting started" videos for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). They've already published four on Channel9 endpoint...(read more)...

17 of 386 | Populating BizTalk Server Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) from a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package - As some of you may know, BizTalk Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) activities can be populated from outside of BizTalk solutions. Say you have a large solution where you want to monitor the full lifecycle of certain data. For example, you have prospective...(read more)...

18 of 386 | BRE usage survey - The CSD/BizTalk Product Group is conducting a survey to assess customer usage of the Business Rules Engine (BRE). If you are interested in participating please click the following link: : https://live.datstat.com/MSCSD-Collector/Survey.ashx?Name=BRE_Usage_Survey_Blog...(read more)...

19 of 386 | When to use InlineValue attribute in Insert in Oracle EBS adapter? - In typical Oracle EBS scenarios, it is a common requirement to insert computed values into a table. For example, one might want to populate the key column using a sequence, or insert something like SYSDATE into a date column. However, if the adapter makes...(read more)...

20 of 386 | BizTalk Server and “Dublin” (Me Too) - Check out Charles Young’s post “ Dublin and BizTalk Server - What's the difference? ”. It’s well worth the read, for all BizTalk developers, and a very interesting analysis.  I’ve been to some of the events Charles mentions, where there was some...(read more)...

21 of 386 | Precedence while setting Application Context in Oracle EBS Adapter - The messages sent to Oracle EBS Adapter can take three message context properties (starting CTP4): 1. Application Short Name 2. Responsibility Name 3. Organization Id We introduced these properties so that one can invoke operations on a single port with...(read more)...

22 of 386 | Charles Young on Dublin and BizTalk Server, and other tidbits - If you follow or stumble upon my blog and haven’t read Charles Young’s post about Dublin and BizTalk I really suggest you do. His articulate views on how how the two fare against each other (and the subsequent Comments on the post) are a great...(read more)...

23 of 386 | Screencast – WCF Service Reference Configuration - In this week’s installment of the WCF screencast series, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight guides the viewer through how to configure your WCF service reference in Visual Studio 2008 . Aaron starts off from the previously created WCF service (see the screencast covering the creation of a WCF service ) and WCF client (see the screencast covering the creation of a WCF client ). Picks up where we left off, Aaron first updates the service reference to refresh the contract from the WCF service,...(read more)...

24 of 386 | Oracle EBS Adapter: Application Context - When the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Adapter performs an operation on an Interface Table, Interface View, Concurrent Program, or a Request Set (Coming in the CTP4), it compulsorily sets the application context. To set application context, the adapter...(read more)...

25 of 386 | Cross-Application Subscription - Applications in BizTalk 2006 for me are just logical buckets that allow you place like-minded artifacts (maps, schemas, orchestrations etc.) together, so your environment when viewed through the BizTalk Admin Console looks clean and tidy and can be easily...(read more)...

26 of 386 | In-Memory BizTalk Resequencer Pattern - I was asked a couple days ago whether it was possible to receive a related but disjointed set of files into BizTalk Server and both aggregate and reorder them prior to passing the result to a web service.  Below is small sample I put together to...(read more)...

27 of 386 | Simple Reflection Based Assignment Using Extension Methods - Have you ever had two objects, of different types, and wished that C# could just be smart enough to realize that objA.FirstName should be assigned to objB.FirstName? For me this comes up quite a bit when working with WCF services. I don't want a service...(read more)...

28 of 386 | WSCF Blue is now open - Christian Weyer has now announced that WSCF-Blue the code name for the next version of WSCF - Web Services Contract First is now an open project on CodePlex and is looking for people to participate and take the lead on driving the tool forwards. In case...(read more)...

29 of 386 | WCF and WF at the PDC 2008 - I know a lot of you are excited about attending PDC2008 from the 27th through the 30th of October . There are some very interesting sessions at the PDC this year, I wanted to draw your attention to some of the sessions by members of my team. WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0 Presenter: Ed Pinto WF 4.0: A First Look Presenter: Kenny Wolf Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML Presenters: Rob Relyea, Daniel Roth Workflow Services: Orchestrating Services...(read more)...

30 of 386 | New Screencast – Using the Persistence Service in WF - Welcome to the fourth week of WF screencasts. This is the last screencast in the WF mini-series; next week, we return to the WCF technology, starting to look at consuming WCF services on your client. This week, CSD Matt Milner from PluralSight guides you through how to add the standard WF persistence service into a WF program . The persistence service is typically used by .NET developers to allow applications to persist application state (if the application were to crash or be shut down, the state...(read more)...

31 of 386 | How the WCF BAM Interceptors Work Under the Hood - Business Activity Monitoring is a feature of BizTalk Server that allows businesses to capture important pieces of information throughout a BizTalk Solution. Once the information is captured, or recorded, any reporting tool such as SQL reporting services...(read more)...

32 of 386 | Q: Can I run BizTalk Server 2006 R2 on Windows Server 2008? - Q: Can I run BizTalk Server 2006 R2 on Windows Server 2008? A: No. I've been asked this enough times in the last couple of weeks to take the few minutes it takes to write this post and link to the three main resources I give customers who wants to...(read more)...

33 of 386 | /dev/null Adapter on GitHub - I’ve just uploaded the source code for my old /dev/null BizTalk Adapter sample on GitHub , which is where I’m posting all my utilities, libraries and tools now. The repository contains both the original version of the adapter, as well as the special BizTalk...(read more)...

34 of 386 | Oracle Open World - Thanks to all the folks who attended to my presentation Taming Web Services Interoperability at Oracle Open World. I've really enjoyed presenting for an Oracle-centric audience and we got some great reception and feedback . I will make the demos available...(read more)...

35 of 386 | BizTalk 2006 R2 Pre-requisites CAB Files - With many thanks to Sanket for posting this information originally, I wanted to post these links here so that the next time I can save my self the Google search and just hit this post. These links are for the EN language, but there's a link at the...(read more)...

36 of 386 | Differences in BizTalk Subscription Handling for SOAP and WCF Adapter Messages - I recently encountered a bit of a “gotcha” when looking at how BizTalk receives WCF messages through its adapters.  I expected my orchestration subscription for messages arriving from either the SOAP adapter or WCF adapter to behave similarly...(read more)...

37 of 386 | PipelineTesting v1.2.0.0 Released - I’m happy to announce a new release of my PipelineTesting library! PipelineTesting is used alongside your favorite Unit Testing tool to make it easier to create and test custom pipeline components, pipelines and schemas for BizTalk Server 2006 using Test...(read more)...

38 of 386 | Screencasts – Running Workflows in your .NET App - These last two weeks represent a shift in Endpoint WF/WCF Developer Screencast series. The first four screencasts in the series concentrated on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) development; we will now focus on Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) for four screencasts. We will then alternate back and forth every four screencasts. This week, CSD Matt Milner from PluralSight guides you through how to run a WF workflow in your .NET application and how to manage it. The screencast picks up with an...(read more)...

39 of 386 | Upgrading BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2006 R2 - New EDI components not available - An issue that I recently came across was when we upgraded our servers from BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2006 R2 is that we were unable to see the new EDI features. This is the context menu I saw when right clicking the parties: Which is incorrect, I should...(read more)...

40 of 386 | Can SOA be done with an agile approach? - In this article Martin Fowler looks at SOA and implementing Agile around the concept. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/EvolutionarySOA.html Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg...(read more)...

41 of 386 | ACSUG Meeting - Building SOA with Microsoft Technology, October 9th - Ulrich Roxburgh -   Auckland Connected Systems User Group   Building SOA With Microsoft Technology Ulrich Roxburgh       Ulrich Roxburgh has worked for Microsoft Consulting Services for 9 ½ years, in various capacities ranging from Senior Consultant...(read more)...

42 of 386 | Workflow Services & Application Protocols - Its taken some time (and a lot of procrastination) but I’ve finally decided to properly get into WF and WCF and as a Biztalk guy, one of the things that most interests me is Workflow Services. I’ve known the basics of all of this for a long...(read more)...

43 of 386 | Screencasts - Your First Workflows - These last two weeks represent a shift in Endpoint WF/WCF Developer Screencast series. The first four screencasts in the series concentrated on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) development; we will now focus on Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) for four screencasts. We will then alternate back and forth every four screencasts. This (and last) week, CSD Matt Milner from PluralSight walks you through how to create your first sequential workflow , and how to create your first state machine workflow...(read more)...

44 of 386 | The "Endpoint" show on Channel9 - Pluralsight's weekly WF/WCF screencast series is now part of a new Channel9 show dedicated to these technologies -- it's called the "Endpoint" show and you can find it at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/ . The show alternates...(read more)...

45 of 386 | The Canadian Connected Systems Conference 2008 - Canada’s Connected Systems Road show: Can’t make it to PDC but would like to hear more about BizTalk and how it relates to broader connected systems and SOA initiatives? Please join us at one of these locations for a day. We’ll be putting out a registration...(read more)...

46 of 386 | Next UK SOA/BPM User Group Meeting - 14th October 2008 London - The next UK SOA/BPM User Group Meeting has been announced which will be taking place on Tuesday, 14th October 2008 at Microsoft’s London office. The meeting will include an introduction to BizTalk 2006 R3 2009, a presentation by ISV Frends Technology...(read more)...

47 of 386 | WF and WCF resources - I just found out about a few new resources that Microsoft has put together to help developers locate relevant information for developing applications using WF and WCF. This includes some of the screencasts that Aaron and I have been doing on those technologies...(read more)...

48 of 386 | MOSS2007 Excel Services - Web Services performance - This is gold: Kb 955144 , "You may experience poor performance when you use many SetCell calls in Excel Services" . Thanks, Microsoft. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)...

49 of 386 | Oliver Sharp on what is next for BizTalk - Oliver Sharp, general manager of the BizTalk Server group at Microsoft, provides an update on how BizTalk has fared in the marketplace and progress the team has made on the next version of the product, BizTalk Server 2009. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass...(read more)...

50 of 386 | Add Gacutil to the Right Click Menu - I've used this quite a bit on BTS 2004. Instead of deploying projects through Visual Studio, sometimes I want to just overwrite the DLL in the GAC, restart BizTalk, and start using it. Here's one of the easier ways to do this: Create a .reg file...(read more)...