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1 of 417 | Orchestration Designer Crash - I recently encountered a troubling problem while creating a BizTalk 2006 R2 solution. Everything was working fine until I tried to open the Orchestration Designer to edit one of the orchestrations I had been working of for a couple of days. Visual Studio...(read more)...

2 of 417 | Viewing tracking and archived data in BizTalk Server 2009 (beta) - There have been some great posts so far on the new features included in BizTalk Server 2009 beta. For example: Richard Seroter’s overview of new features, Michael Stephenson’s BizTalk Testing Guide on 2009,  Steef-Jan Wiggers’s building a sandbox...(read more)...

3 of 417 | Busy travelling, busy speaking… -   So, I’ve been booked into the Microsoft 2009 SOA conference in Redmond at the end of this month to speak about the new version of the ESB Guidance (V2.0). For those of you who are familiar with version 1.0 of the guidance, I strongly recommend...(read more)...

4 of 417 | A Quick Walkthrough of the BizTalk 2006 R2 Upgrade to BizTalk 2009 - Originally posted by Nick Heppleston at: http://www.modhul.com/2009/01/04/upgrading-biztalk-server-2006-r2-to-biztalk-server-2009/ In this post, I’ll quickly walk through upgrading a production BizTalk 2006 R2 installation to the latest BizTalk...(read more)...

5 of 417 | SQL Connection Information for BizTalk Adapters - I created a SQL Bulk load adapter as the standard SQL Adapter casts the stream to a string and runs out of memory for large datasets. While developing the Bulk Load adapter, I need to specify the connection information. I was about to implement a custom...(read more)...

6 of 417 | Happy New Year BizTalk-ers! - Just a quick post to say Happy New Year to all of the BizTalk community. I was planning on writing about the BizTalk 2006 R2 to 2009 upgrade experience, but I managed to forget my external drive so I can’t start the VM… instead you’ll...(read more)...

7 of 417 | Failed to create the transport adapter - I have received this error when testing my adapter I am creating: The Messaging Engine failed to create the transport adapter "SQLBulkXML". OutboundAssemblyPath: "D:\Eric\Warehouse\Adapter\Run-Time\SQLBulkXMLTransmit\bin\Debug\SQLBulkXMLTransmitAdapter...(read more)...

8 of 417 | BizTalk Server 2009 MSBuild Tasks - I’ve been looking around the new project system introduced in the BizTalk Server 2009 beta. As you might have heard before, it’s now based on MSBuild. This is an extremely welcome change from the obscure compilation model in previous BizTalk versions...(read more)...

9 of 417 | PipelineTesting and BizTalk 2009 - Now that the a public beta release of BizTalk Server 2009 is out, I thought I’d download it and try building and testing PipelineTesting on the new release. After downloading and installing the beta, I proceeded to import the existing Visual Studio 2005...(read more)...

10 of 417 | I'm in .iso installation hell - I've been installing a new VPC with Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and BizTalk Server 2009. I've never had so much trouble installing from .iso files. It seems to work 1 out of 5 times, or less. Even when you try the same file...(read more)...

11 of 417 | Auckland Connected User Group Meeting - New Capabilities of BizTalk 2009 with Thiago Almeida - Hi everyone, The next Auckland Connected Systems User Group meeting will be held on Thursday, the 22nd of January, 6pm, at Datacom – 210 Federal Street, Auckland CBD. Yours truly, Thiago Almeida, will be presenting on the new capabilities of BizTalk Server...(read more)...

12 of 417 | BizTalk mapper - Appending new records to existing (looping) records - Does BizTalk Server maps have patterns? What are patterns? Wikipedia states that it's a pattern if "...it happens 5 or more times..." and that a design pattern in computer science "...is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring...(read more)...

13 of 417 | So What’s ACTUALLY In The BizTalk 2009 Beta? - Yesterday I installed the latest public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 (the artist formerly known as BizTalk Server 2006 R3), and thought I’d share the latest visuals and features.  Note that you shouldn’t expect any particularly revolutionary...(read more)...

14 of 417 | FHS/FTS with no BHS/BTS segments - A friend recently asked if it was ABSOLUTELY necessary to have the BHS/BTS segments if batching was enabled. I asked some friends and the HL7 DASM demands those segments: [FHS] (file header segment) { [BHS] (batch header segment) { [MSH (zero or more...(read more)...

15 of 417 | Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Beta Released - The first beta of BizTalk Server 2009 has been released today, and it is available for download from the connect website. Release notes, the single server installation guide, and the 2009 accelerators are also available for download on that same page...(read more)...

16 of 417 | Presenting at BrizTalk - 16th December 2008 - I will be presenting at the Brisbane BizTalk Community (BrizTalk) meeting on the 16th of December the topics will be BizTalk Server 2009 & Windows Azure. for details on the meeting see: http://www.briztalk.org/Events/tabid/56/Default.aspx...(read more)...

17 of 417 | BizTalk ... WCF ... ProtectionLevel - a joust to the death (Part 2) - In my previous post ( Part 1 ) I introduced the problem and the fact that there didn’t appear to be a known solution out there … oh how we love a challenge! Considering I was running into all sorts of dead-ends on the BizTalk side of things we switched...(read more)...

18 of 417 | BizTalk 2009 Beta now on Connect - From the connect.microsoft.com Site: BizTalk Server BizTalk Server 2009 represents the next release in Microsoft’s long-term strategy to enable the connected enterprise. BizTalk Server 2009 enhances enterprise connectivity with broad industry support...(read more)...

19 of 417 | BizTalk 2009 Public Beta and ESB Guidance V2 CTP Available! - After a very valuable and interesting TAP (Technology Adoption Program) process, a public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 is now available at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218 . In unison, the CTP of the ESB Guidance Toolkit v2 is...(read more)...

20 of 417 | BizTalk Server 2009 CTP goes public - Finally. Ever since being told of a rough estimate of the date it was to be released I've been waiting for it to come. And now it has. Read the official word at Steve Martins blog . Get it here . ESB Guidance 2.0 is here . It took a while longer than...(read more)...

21 of 417 | BizTalk ... WCF ... ProtectionLevel - a joust to the death (Part 1) - BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has brilliant support for WCF out of the box; in fact I use it’s WCF based adapters almost exclusively now, unless I have a specific line of business system, like S.A.P / Microsoft Dynamics to connect to. It is really painless to...(read more)...

22 of 417 | How-to: Get status from a windows service? - I was asked: "How can I call into a Windows Service to get it's status?" A little more background said that status was to be retrieved by clients (a website) on the same machine. My response was to use WCF with the NetNamedPipeBinding. Since...(read more)...

23 of 417 | Resource availability for standard platforms (like BizTalk Server) is insufficient - The papers in Sweden reported last week that resources with expert level knowledge on standard platforms and systems are hard to come by. In summary it says that its an emerging trend in Sweden to use standard platforms, but the fact that resources are...(read more)...

24 of 417 | Using sequences inside Composite Operations with Oracle EBS adapter - Consider a scenario where I want to insert data into two tables in a single transaction. The tables have a field that should be populated using the same sequence - one using SEQUENCE.NEXTVAL, and the other using SEQUENCE.CURRVAL, so that both tables get...(read more)...

25 of 417 | Business Rules Engine - I have wrote a little about the BRE , and Microsoft is looking for customer experiences also here at this survey ....(read more)...

26 of 417 | Troubleshooting BizTalk Server Soap Adapter Whitepaper Released - Today the BizTalk Adapter Development team announced a new whitepaper on troubleshooting the BizTalk Server Soap adapter in BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk 2006 R2 (although a lot of if not all still applies to BizTalk 2004). The download link is here. The whitepaper...(read more)...

27 of 417 | New Virtual Lab - Using Test First Development with WF 3.5 - I'm very pleased to announce the publication of a new WF 3.5 hands-on lab to the MSDN Virtual Labs site: Using Test-First Development with WF . The new lab covers doing test-first development in the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) technology. The lab explains [at a high level] the concepts of test-first development, and walks the user through how to unit test both custom activities and full WF workflows. Unit testing and test-first development seems to become a very popular topic in the last...(read more)...

28 of 417 | Blueprints Diary 2 : Getting Started - The Videos - Mike Lehman has posted a set of screen-casts on Channel 9 that explain the process of authoring and composing blueprints, including how to use the WF process workflow, creating custom extensions, using T4 etc. Here is the list of videos and a short summary...(read more)...

29 of 417 | HIPAA 005010 will not be supported in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - I have just received word that the 005010 HIPAA schemas will not be supported in R2 but will only be available and supported in BizTalk 2009! I am VERY surprised that Microsoft would decide that, given the somewhat slow accepting of new products in the...(read more)...

30 of 417 | New RESTful .NET book available - Jon Flanders has been a thought leader in the area of doing REST in .NET.   His new RESTful .NET book is now available for purchase.   He goes into the motivation and background for REST and then shows how to consume and expose RESTful web services with WCF 3.5.  Very few people can make low-level technical details as accessible as Jon.  Definitely one to have in the library....(read more)...

31 of 417 | Blogical SFTP Adapter for BizTalk gets passphrase support - I've uploaded a new version of the Blogical SFTP Adapter for BizTalk unto Codeplex . This release adds support for passphrase protected identityfiles after a forums request . Get it here ....( read more )...(read more)...

32 of 417 | 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)...

33 of 417 | 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)...

34 of 417 | 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)...

35 of 417 | 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)...

36 of 417 | 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)...

37 of 417 | 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)...

38 of 417 | "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)...

39 of 417 | "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)...

40 of 417 | 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)...

41 of 417 | 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)...

42 of 417 | 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)...

43 of 417 | 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)...

44 of 417 | 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)...

45 of 417 | 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)...

46 of 417 | 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)...

47 of 417 | 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)...

48 of 417 | 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)...

49 of 417 | 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)...

50 of 417 | 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)...