BizTalk 2006

101 of 235 | Advanced BizTalk 2006 Web Services, Part I - I've recently had the opportunity to build some advanced web services with BizTalk Server 2006, and wanted to show 4 interesting use cases over this 2 part blog post. Over these 2 posts, I will demonstrate and investigate the following topics ... Using the "bare" and "wrapped" settings during web service generation Creating multi-parameter web services via BizTalk How the "one way" flag affects the web service Decoupling the BizTalk web service from a particular assemblyThis post will focus on the first two. [UPDATE: See Part II here] I would venture to say that virtually no one has clicked the "Advanced" button in the Web Services Publishing Wizard and changed any of those val......

102 of 235 | Advanced BizTalk 2006 Web Services, Part II - In Part I of this two post series, I began a look at some advanced concepts around BizTalk-generated web services. In this post, we look at two additional concepts. In the last post, I demonstrated the following topics ... Using the "bare" and "wrapped" settings during web service generation Creating multi-parameter web services via BizTalkIn this post, I'll investigate the final two points ... How the "one way" flag affects the web service Decoupling the BizTalk web service from a particular assembly First of all, what does the Force Request Response flag in the Web Services Publishing Wizard actually do? The idea is that you can control whether you have a one-way or request......

103 of 235 | Another New BizTalk 2006 Book Available - Another new BizTalk book is now available from APress.This book, Pro BizTalk 2006, published by APress and written by George Dunphy (works for Microsoft Consulting Services) and Ahmer Metwally (works for Microsoft) is described as a high-end resource based on real feedback from developers.  It covers topics not covered well in other BizTalk books like performance tuning, scalability, and administration.Amazon.com also has a package so you can get both the Pro BizTalk 2006 book and the BizTalk 2006 Recipes book for one price.  Lots of other great BizTalk Books coming around the corner as well...  ...

104 of 235 | Pro BizTalk 2006 Book Now Available - Another BizTalk 2006 book is now available on Amazon.com. Pro BizTalk 2006 by George Dunphy and Ahmer Metwally is described as a high-end resource based on feedback from developers.  It covers topics like scalability, administration & performance tuning.  I have not had a chance to take a look at this book yet, but it appears to cover some topics that are not covered well in the BizTalk help guide or in other books. Amazon.com is also having a special so you can get this book along with the BizTalk 2006 Recipes  book for one low price.  ...

105 of 235 | BizTalk 2006 Performance Metrics With SQL 2005 - Useful report released by our partner Infosys showing performance improvements using SQL Server 2005 with BizTalk 2006 instead of SQL Server 2000. I like how they explain the scenario they tested, show the results with BizTalk 2004 and SQL 2000, BizTalk 2006 and SQL 2000, and then BizTalk 2006 and SQL 2005. I also appreciate their commentary as to *why* the BTS06 + SQL05 combo performed better. One number you'll see a lot here is a 40% improvement in performance with BTS06 + SQL05. You'll find scenarios such as interchange (batch) processing, executing rules from orchestration, atomic transactions, convoys, and more. Don't miss the section on "backlogs" where you see how SQL 2005 signif......

106 of 235 | InfoWorld Product Review of BizTalk Server 2006 - InfoWorld has posted their product review of BizTalk Server 2006 and awarded the product with the highest rating.   This article is called BizTalk 2006 deftly connects enterprise apps.  InfoWorld concludes their review with: "BizTalk Server 2006 is a huge product, and I have only hit the high points of describing its capabilities.  It appears to be much improved from BizTalk 2004. The updated product has more capability, better tools, better scalability, better security, better value, and cleaner deployment." Some other notable quotes: o       BizTalk 2006 offers amazing scalability, which will make enterprise IT departments......

107 of 235 | BizTalk 2006 deftly connects enterprise apps - Suppose you’re the new CIO at an enterprise-scale company that has “islands of automation” for accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory control, sales, support, and HR, and your goal is to integrate all business processes....

108 of 235 | What is the difference between Microsoft.RuleEngine.RuleSetDeploymentDriver and Microsoft.BizTalk.RuleEngineExtensions.RuleSetDeploymentDriver? - The Microsoft.RuleEngine assembly can be used by any .NET application. The BizTalk Server can be considered as one of the consumers of BRE. The Microsoft.BizTalk.RuleEngineExtensions is the extension for BizTalk to provide some additional functionality. The main difference is that the Microsoft.BizTalk.RuleEngineExtensions.RuleSetDeploymentDriver writes out information to the BizTalk tracking database so that rules can be tracked using HAT. If you use the Microsoft.RuleEngine.RuleSetDeploymentDriver class, deployment go a little bit faster (no need to save the rules to the tracking database, but it is not recommended. In general, you should use the one configured. In BizTalk 2006, the sta......

109 of 235 | New BizTalk Server 2006 Publications - Here they come!  2 new BizTalk Server 2006 books are published.      You can already order BizTalk 2006 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach and pre-order Pro BizTalk 2006 (Pro).  Happy reading!   Regards Marjan...

110 of 235 | New BizTalk 2006 Performance Papers from HP - Having a great time here at the SOA and BPM Conference in Redmond. Got to hang out with Stephen Thomas, Alan Smith, Scott Colestock, Matt Meleski, Larry Beck and lots of other fellas. It's so foreign to me being in a room with dozens of folks who deeply know this product. I'm used to a small customer subset of knowledgable folks, not a big group of peers with a deep base of experience. One thing I've seen here at the conference that I wanted to share is a new set of whitepapers from HP that outlines a series of case studies and performance tests on BizTalk Server 2006. You can find such nuggets such as Case study: HP internal migration of Microsoft® BizTalk Server 2004 to 2006, and SMB ......

111 of 235 | Sign and GAC your BizTalk 2006 Custom Pipeline Components ASAP - Recently I was working with a custom pipeline component in BizTalk 2006.  As you know, a change was made to how these components behave in BizTalk 2006.  That is, now they can be placed in the GAC as well as in the \Pipeline Components directly.  So what does this mean?  Put them in both place, one place, who knows?In general, the rule is when working with custom pipeline components on a development system put the components in the \Pipeline Components folder and put them in the GAC on non-development systems.  Although this is not really the approach the help guide says (under Developing Custom Pipeline Components), this approach works great since it......

112 of 235 | Working with Custom Pipeline Components in BizTalk 2006 - As you know, a change was made to how custom pipelines components behave in BizTalk Server 2006.  Now they can be placed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) as well as in the \Pipeline Components directly.  So what does this mean?  Put them in both place, one place, who knows? In general, when working with custom pipeline components on a development system the components must be placed in the \Pipeline Components folder to be available for the designer.  When working on a non-development server, putting the components only into the GAC can save on deployment time.  Although this is not really the approach the help guide says (under Developing......

113 of 235 | New BizTalk Book Hits the Shelves - A new BizTalk Server book is now available.  It is the first BizTalk book available that covers some of the new features of BizTalk 2006!  It's called BizTalk 2006 Recipes and is now available on Amazon. This book is a must have for any BizTalk project!...

114 of 235 | BizTalk 2006 Recipes Book Now Available - BizTalk Server books are in short supply.  And finding one that really helps solve real world problems is event harder to find.  A new BizTalk book is now available.  It's called BizTalk 2006 Recipes and is currently available on Amazon.com for around $38. I was fortunate enough to get to work with the authors of this book as a Tech Reviewer. This book covers BizTalk from end to end and is a must have for any BizTalk project!...

115 of 235 | Biztalk 2006 Map Advanced Properties - It's a been a while I blogged. I literally did not have time even to check the blogosphere for past few months. My projects are going very very busy and having fun with Biztalk. In the midst of work, I learnt a few advanced properties in Biztalk mapping which can be set directly by editing the Biztalk map file. As usual use this at your own risk. These are not tested fully to use in Production/Live environments. Optimizing Value Mapping Functoid Code Generation If you have worked with Value mapping Functoids in Biztalk maps and had a chance to look at the generated XSLT, you can notice that there are a bunch of variables declared which may not be used if the xsl:if condition evaluates fal......

116 of 235 | BizTalk Receive Locations Disabling - Error: "exhausted the network retry attempts" Do you have over 50 receive locations that you use for Biztalk 2004/2006. Have you ever found them disabled because of Exhausted Network Retries? The problem is not Biztalk but Windows Server 2003 and NetBIOS. Basically it comes down to a default value of connections to a particular server. The default value is 50. You can set this value up to 65000. We used 100 as the value and run at 91 connections constantly. This article will help: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810886   Here is the basics of what you need to do: 1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click ......

117 of 235 | How to Add Multiple Binding Files to an Application in BizTalk 2006 - BizTalk 2006 makes it easy to add multiple binding files to an Application.  By adding multiple binding files to an Application, you can easily select environment specific settings during deployment.  So if you have a Dev, Test, and Prod environment you can have three binding files all built into the same MSI package.  Of course, you need to create and maintain multiple version of your binding files in order to use them in this manner.To add multiple binding files to an Application, just follow these steps.1.  Export your binding files using BizTalk Server Administration (you'll need to change your setting for each environment). 2. Once you have all the binding files......

118 of 235 | BizTalk Deployment Wizard thronging error while deploying a BizTalk Assembly. (SOX051116700042) - This is known bug of Biztalk 2004. I'm not sure this would happen in Biztalk 2006 environment again but I just want to make a memento of the issue. When the Biztalk server has a NNTP service, above error will defenitely come up, due to the nntpsvc.dll which is NNTP service component. Biztalk deployment wizard loads the dll and try to call function, NNTPSVC_LPC ( this calls LookupAccountName ) using security context of NNTPSVC. But deployment wizard doesn't actually have a permission to do so, one of the parameters will be empty and this AllocateCCall will throw an exception "Out of memory."This error does look like has something to do with DTC, but it doesn't. It's simply a matter NNTP svc.......

119 of 235 | Biztalk Resources - Biztalk 2006 Resourcesby ganeshpSelf Paces Trainingby biztalk server teamBiztalk 2006 Learning Resourcesby luke nyswongerBiztalk Wikiby biztalkwiki...

120 of 235 | Flat file tutorials - Even though we have Flat file wizard in Biztalk 2006, it's still worth to know basic of flat file. Here's flat file tutorials. BizTalk 2004 Flat File Schema Tutorial 1 BizTalk 2004 Flat File Schema Tutorial 2 BizTalk Flat File Parsing AnnotationsThis next one is a good overview of property setting on a flat file schema it is taken from this blog post: http://weblogs.ilg.com/brumfieldb/archive/2004/08/09/440.aspxExtending the flat file disassembler pipeline Component Test your flat file processingThe Anatomy of a Positional Flat-File...

121 of 235 | New Methods in XmlReader 2.0 - As you might have guessed it I work on a lot in the XML namespace of .NET and I'm finally starting to use some of the new XmlReader features.  This post will go over some of them here.  And remember a wise man once said that everything can be solved with one more layer of abstraction.  These new features are nothing more than an encapsulation of code that the major of us have written thousands of times before but its all about productivity.  Why just today I was at a meeting going over some change requests and noticed that n new features were being added and schedule and budget remained constant.  :) .ReadToFollowing(string)  This method wil......

122 of 235 | BizTalk 2006 Documenter Available - I hadn't realized we released this publicly yet, but noticed this morning that the BizTalk Server 2006 Documenter is now available for you to download. See Paul's blog for the link. I love this tool. To be able to generate a CHM file containing summaries of all your BizTalk artifacts (and relationships), plus business rules, plus port configurations, plus orchestration image snapshots is freakin' great. Essential way to quickly document your entire BizTalk application without writing a single line in a boring Word doc! Technorati Tags: BizTalk ...

123 of 235 | Those long xpaths... - Tired of havng incredibly long xpath statements when using the "xpath" keyword in your orchestration expression shapes?  (They are generally long because of the xml namespace issues, unless your documents don't use namespaces.  When namespaces are in play, "local-name()" tends to overwhelm your actual path content.) For BizTalk 2006, we can take advantage of the fact that System.Xml 2.0 added the ability for documents to supply namespace mappings themselves when doing xpath work - without the need for manually populating and using a XmlNamespaceManager instance.  Note that XPathNavigator now has a SelectSingleNode method which can accept......

124 of 235 | Those long xpaths... - Tired of havng incredibly long xpath statements when using the "xpath" keyword in your orchestration expression shapes?  (They are generally long because of the xml namespace issues, unless your documents do not use namespaces.  When namespaces are in play, "local-name()" tends to overwhelm your actual path content.) For BizTalk 2006, we can take advantage of the fact that System.Xml 2.0 added the ability for documents to supply namespace mappings themselves when doing xpath work - without the need for manually populating and using a XmlNamespaceManager instance, as was the case for .Net 1.x.  Note that XPathNavigator now (as of .net 2.0) has a SelectSingleNod......

125 of 235 | How To Build and Deploy BizTalk Solutions Using MSBuild - MSBuild is the new build platform for Visual Studios.  It allows great flexibility, customization (through creating custom Tasks), and integration with unit tests. While MSBuild doesn’t directly support building BizTalk solutions, tasks are available to call the DEVENV executable and Microsoft UK has released a set of custom tasks to support a wide verity of common BizTalk tasks (available on GotDotNet).  This provided an easy method for scripting automated or ad-hock BizTalk builds and deployments using MSBuild. What can MSBuild do for you? -       Allow for automated and scheduled builds of your BizTalk code -     &n......

126 of 235 | Using MSBuild to Build and Deploy BizTalk 2006 Solutions - MSBuild is the new build platform for Visual Studios.  It allows great flexibility, customization (through creating custom Tasks), and integration with unit tests.   While MSBuild doesn’t directly support building BizTalk solutions, tasks are available to call the DEVENV executable and Microsoft UK has released a set of custom tasks to support a wide verity of common BizTalk tasks (available on GotDotNet).  This provided an easy method for scripting automated or ad-hock BizTalk builds and deployments using MSBuild.   What can MSBuild do for you? -       Allow for automated and scheduled builds of your BizTalk code -  &n......

127 of 235 | Free BizTalk 2006 Training On CDROM - AppDev Training is offering a free CD Training Class!  They have many great courses to pick from including a new Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 course called “Exploring BizTalk Server 2006”. If you are new to BizTalk 2006, this looks like it would be an excellent opportunity to get 3 hours worth of free training.  This CD covers the new features and functionally in BizTalk 2006. Some other titles available are: Exploring ASP.NET "Atlas" and Web 2.0 Exploring SQL Server 2005 It looks like this offer is also valid internationally but you have to pay shipping costs.   Oh, make sure you create a user account before you add anything to your cart.  When I signe......

128 of 235 | Free BizTalk Server 2006 CD Training - AppDev Training is offering a free CD Training Class!    They have many great courses to pick from including a new Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 course called “Exploring BizTalk Server 2006”.   If you are new to BizTalk 2006, this looks like it would be an excellent opportunity to get 3 hours worth of free training.  This CD covers the new features and functionally in BizTalk 2006.   Some other titles available are: Exploring ASP.NET "Atlas" and Web 2.0 Exploring SQL Server 2005   It looks like this offer is also valid internationally but you have to pay shipping costs.   Oh, make sure you create a user account before you add anyth......

129 of 235 | BizTalk 2006: Accessing flat file content in orchestration messages - I was recently asked if I would provide some insight into solving a BizTalk problem.  It's some time since I have blogged on BizTalk in depth, and the question gave me an excuse to write something on my favourite integration tool.   Advanced BizTalk developers will know all about this subject, but if your are fairly new to BizTalk, this might be of help.  In the given scenario, data stored in flat files in being delivered to the BizTalk message box via a pass-through pipeline.   An orchestration subscribes to these messages and creates XML output.   Each time a file is processed, the developer wants to 'dump' the contents of the flat file into a......

130 of 235 | BzTalk Server partner and MVP Scott Colestock chats with Mike Woods - I recently had the chance to chat with Scott Colestock. Scott is the Chief Architect at Trace Ventures, LLC based in the Twin Cities, MN. He’s also a BizTalk Server MVP. Here’s the transcript from the chat.   Mike Woods says:So Scott I moved to the BizTalk Server team in July of 2002 after working in the developer division on the .NET Framework 1.0 project. I seem to remember you being part of the BizTalk community back then. What can you tell me about your experience over the years?   Scott Colestock says:Sure - I had a few experiences with BT2000/2002 in the past, but I've been working with the current incarnation of BizTalk since the summer of 2003, when BizTalk 2004......

131 of 235 | Enterprise Library Logging with BizTalk 2006 - First off, it has been a long time since I’ve last blogged.  I have been very busy working on some other endeavors and I was on vacations for a few weeks.  I am now working on some new blog posts and samples so I can get back into the swing of things.   Recently, I have been working with Enterprise Library for .net 2.0.  I was able to get basic logging set up and working with little effort using this static method call:   Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Logger.Write(oLogger);   Were oLogger is an instance of Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.LogEntry.  To get this to work, all I had to do was add a reference to Microso......

132 of 235 | Deployment Framework for BizTalk 2006... - The BizTalk Deployment Framework has been updated to work with BizTalk 2006...It is hard to believe that this project has been going on since May of 2004! The Deployment Framework for BizTalk 2006 still has the same goals as the 2004 version: Streamline the deployment process for developers, ensuring repeatability Make it easier for a team of BizTalk developers to stay in sync - not just with BizTalk artifacts, but with all the other infrastructure that surrounds the solution (virtual directories, queues, file folders, etc.) Extremely close parity between server-side deployments and developer deployments -......

133 of 235 | Deployment Framework for BizTalk 2006... - (Update: The original download files were missing the PDB-to-GAC functionality I've discussed before.  Please download again if you have already...) The BizTalk Deployment Framework has been updated to work with BizTalk 2006...It is hard to believe that this project has been going on since May of 2004! The Deployment Framework for BizTalk 2006 still has the same goals as the 2004 version: Streamline the deployment process for developers, ensuring repeatability Make it easier for a team of BizTalk developers to stay in sync - not just with BizTalk artifacts, but with all the other infrastructure that surrounds the solution (virtual directorie......

134 of 235 | Exam 70-235 Review - Just finished up a review process for the BizTalk 2006 exam.  Things appear to be on track. One thing I learned today, is the BizTalk trainer and consulting world is a small world. Every one barrows each other concepts and functionality.  Where you think one thing started from, you learn was from something else, which was barrowed from another product.... Gotta love the life cyle of software design, and we thought OOP is all about reusability, just take a look at life.  ...

135 of 235 | Generated C# code in BizTalk 2006... - In my last post I indicated there was a better story in BizTalk 2006 for working with the C# code that is generated as an intermediate when compiling ODX (orchestration) files - that is, better than having to deal with temporary files and the BizTalk 2004 File Dump utility.  I If you've worked with BizTalk 2006, you might have already stumbled across this.  The xlang compiler for BizTalk 2006 is kind enough to place the intermediate C# file for your ODX directly in the project directory.  If you have multiple orchestrations in an assembly, you will find a C# file for each orchestration - but only one of ......

136 of 235 | Generated C# code in BizTalk 2006... - In my last post I indicated there was a better story in BizTalk 2006 for working with the C# code that is generated as an intermediate when compiling ODX (orchestration) files - that is, better than having to deal with temporary files and the BizTalk 2004 File Dump utility.  I If you've worked with BizTalk 2006, you might have already stumbled across this.  The xlang compiler for BizTalk 2006 is kind enough to place the intermediate C# file for your ODX directly in the project directory.  If you have multiple orchestrations in an assembly, you will find a C# file for each orchestration - but only one of those files will actually have co......

137 of 235 | BizTalk Beta Exam 71-235 thoughts... - A couple of weeks back, the Beta exam for BizTalk 2006 was running, now I can't wait to hear the feedback about what candidates thought about the exam. If you have some thoughts, please record them here, any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Personally, there was about 3 questions or so which I really didn't remember. At least this is what I think. Hopefully, I did well enough warrant the title of "Author" of the exam. P.S. I'd just like to know overall if you felt the exam was too easy, to hard, or fair.  Did the questions represent real life situations and etc.  My invested interest in this is that, I help create some of the exam items. Thanks....

138 of 235 | Utility available for stitching together archives of your tracking database - A co-worker of mine, Vishal, has posted on GotDotNet a new utility which enables customers to take the archives of their tracking database and stitch them together into a single, large database. http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=67bbd6ea-850e-4d93-be87-df6788976cab This can be a very usefull tool when used in association with the Archiving and Purging features of BizTalk 2006 which will also be available in BizTalk 2004 SP2. Now you can schedule regular archiving of your tracking database and then reconstruct one single database against which you can mine your data. Thanks to Vishal for putting together this tool for everyone.   For those of you heading to ......

139 of 235 | Thoughts On Just-Completed BizTalk 2006 Beta Exam - Hopefully I don't get read the riot act, but I just finished taking the beta BizTalk 2006 exam and wanted to share some thoughts. First of all, it's 72 questions, VERY heavy on business rules and BAM. Also lots of scenarios revolving around trading partners. Plenty of questions surrounding messaging-only solutions. Also, saw a number of transaction-focused questions. In terms of what's new for 2006, expect to see lots of "application" and deployment questions, I saw a SEED mention in there, taste of recoverable interchanges, and more than a few questions on the BAM alerting. All that said, I really didn't like this test at all. Whereas I recall the BizTalk 2004 exam......

140 of 235 | Biztalk 2006 Map/Schema Backward compatibility - I found an interesting thing about Biztalk 2006 map backward compatibility with Biztalk 2004. As you cannot install both Biztalk 2006 and Biztalk 2004 on the same box, I am sometimes left with a Biztalk 2006 map on a Biztalk 2004 machine. I had a few maps which were initially developed in Biztalk 2004 and migrated to Biztalk 2006. I had made a few updates to the maps using Visual Studio 2005. If you try to open the Visual Studio Solution file created with VS2005 in VS2003, it would not open the project, However I found that you can open the ".btproj" project file in Visual Studio 2003 (Biztalk 2004 Machine) and make changes to the map/Schema. This backward compatibility was neat and helped......

141 of 235 | SQL Server Setttings to NEVER Change for BizTalk Applications - Just finished up a week of teaching a deep BizTalk 2006 course for local customers, and, taking a pleasant week-long vacation. In doing so, I've queued up a fat batch of topics to cover over the coming months. Here, I wanted to quickly point out a couple of SQL Server settings that you should NEVER change, even if one of our own SQL guys tells you to. First, of all we purposely set the Parallelism setting of the SQL Server instance to "1" during BizTalk configuration. Parallelism is the ability for SQL to take advantage of more than 1 processor while executing a T-SQL statement. See this KB article for why we DON'T want this value changed In the same vein, we also turn off ......

142 of 235 | Special 4-Day Class on BizTalk 2006 for Low Price! - Do you want to learn more about a wide range of features in BizTalk 2006? Are you a new developer, tester, or PM learning about BizTalk Server? Then this class is for you! PluralSight is going to teach a 4-day course at the Microsoft's Sammamish campus June 19-22. This is a specially discounted class offered at MS employee price of $1,300 per person. Currently we have room for 4 more people.  Please note that once someone signs up, their registration will be non-refundable if they cancel. For more information and/or to sign up, please contact Diane Faigel or Marjan Kalantar.  ...

143 of 235 | Virtual Machines, BizTalk Configuration and DTC Madness - Looks like an instance of my stupidly has actually positively impacted the BizTalk 2006 documentation. I'm teaching a class here in SoCal next week, and just finished building a server farm sitting in Virtual Server 2005 R2. I've got myself a nice Active Directory (plus DNS, plus DHCP) box, a server with SQL 2005 installed, and a couple servers prepped for BizTalk installation by the students. So in typical virtual-development style, I created my first virtual machine, copied the hard drive, and reused it for a different virtual machine. Now, I was bright enough to remember to change the new machine's SID using my favorite SID modification tool, NewSID from SysInter......

144 of 235 | BizTalk 2006 TS Beta Exam Available - Richard Seroter has blogged about the availablity of Biztalk 2006 TS Beta Exam. Use the promo code TS235 to take this test for free! Check it out here...

145 of 235 | BizTalk 2006 Beta Exam Prep Guide Available - The BizTalk 2006 exam is now in Beta. Check out the new preparation guide. Check out Bryant's blog for the promo code you can use to take the test for free. I just signed up to take the test on June 1st, and if I fail, so help me. Seriously, if I don't get like a 96% or higher, I'll probably ask to be made a "Notepad TS" instead of "BizTalk TS". Technorati Tags: BizTalk ...

146 of 235 | Important Biztalk 2006 links - I am trying to put all the links in one place... Biztalk 2006 Resources  MSDN Biztalk 2006 Online Help   : Online documentation with Whats New, Architecture, Reference,Utilities, Deployments etc. Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006 Help in PDF format : Download the above Help in PDF format MSDN Biztalk 2006 Code Samples : Download the samples on orchestrations, messaging etc. MSDN Biztalk 2006 SDK Samples : Downloadable SDK samples with guidance for installing and testing the samples. Microsoft Biztalk Home page   :  Microsoft's Homepage for Biztalk Server MSDN On-Demand Downlodable Webcasts : You can now download all the ar......

147 of 235 | Where Did My HAT Functionality Go in BizTalk 2006? - Since the last couple of weeks I’m spending again some time with BizTalk. Although there is no official training material for BizTalk Server 2006 available yet, U2U is already offering BizTalk 2006 training. So it was about time to upgrade my BizTalk Server 2004 skills! The first thing that I actually had to search for was the functionality that was previously available in Health and Activity Tracking (HAT). In HAT 2004 you can run queries that display the currently running, suspended ... orchestration instances. HAT is still available in when you install BizTalk 2006, but the Queries menu is quite empty: A great deal of monitoring functionality in BizTalk Server 2006 has been moved to th......

148 of 235 | Where Did My HAT Functionality Go in BizTalk 2006? - Since the last couple of weeks I’m spending again some time with BizTalk. Although there is no official training material for BizTalk Server 2006 available yet, U2U is already offering BizTalk 2006 training. So it was about time to upgrade my BizTalk Server 2004 skills! The first thing that I actually had to search for was the functionality that was previously available in Health and Activity Tracking (HAT). In HAT 2004 you can run queries that display the currently running, suspended ... orchestration instances. HAT is still available in when you install BizTalk 2006, but the Queries menu is quite empty: A great deal of monitoring functionality in BizTalk Server 2006 has been moved to th......

149 of 235 | BizTalk 2006 Development in Visual Studio 2005 - One of the requirements for BizTalk 2006 is that you must use Visual Studio 2005 for development.  This makes sense because everything in BizTalk is now based on the .Net 2.0 Framework.  Microsoft has made a few modifications for the developer on this from. If you look at the Properties of your BizTalk Project, you now have a couple of new options (You can right click your project, select properties and then navigate to Configuration Properties, Deployment).  You can now enter an Application Name which is a new feature of BizTalk 2006.  If you do not enter a name, it will use the default application (which defaults to BizTalk Application 1).  In this dialog window,......

150 of 235 | BizTalk News - Some News and Information regarding BizTalk 2004 and 2006: -         Understanding BizTalk2006 Document: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/techinfo/whitepapers/understanding.mspx -         Not a BizTalk topic but related to some extent ist he following white paper about the Business Value of RFID from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/techinfo/whitepapers/rfid.mspx -         Slides and Code Samples from Marty Wasznicky’s BizT