December 2009 Entries

Persistence points in Biztalk

What are persistence points in Biztalk? To have a recoverable proces and to be sure that Biztalk can dehydrate orchestrations Biztalk will persist the state of the orchestration in the database. Because this proces will slow down the Biztalk application it is important to know when Biztalk will persist the orchestration. There are a few rules that apply to persistence in Biztalk: - Send ports will persist the orchestration at the end of the send shape - Orchestrations will be persisited at the end...

Moving functoids to another page in the Biztalk mapper

One student asked me if it is possible to move functiods from one page to another in the Biztalk mapper. To move functiods from one page to another in the Biztalk mapper follow these steps: Open the Biztalk map Create a new page in the map Select all links and functiods you want to move Drag the selected items over the newly create page tab Wait a few seconds until the page moves to the front Drag the selected items in the design surface of the page...