Biztalk
I was able to attend most of the Launch event in Atlanta on Tuesday. I enjoyed it and learned a few new things. The big thing for me was getting VS2005 standard and SQL2005 (1 cal) as well as a voucher for BizTalk 2006 developer edition. The demonstrations were interesting and I definately look forward to using the new products the rest of this year and 2006. Microsoft mentioned that the Launch Event CD packages were “not for ebay”. Go search ebay and see how many auctions there are that...
I haven't had much to say lately, but I want to mention one thing. If you stop a Biztalk Orchestration, don't forget to stop the ports too!!! Otherwise they just keep sucking
I learned a few important things about calling a stored procedure from an orchestration today. 1. Use “add generated items” instead of trying to create the schema and ports yourself2. Make sure your SQL in the procedure ends with “for xml auto, xmldata” BEFORE you add generated items. Then remove the “, xmldata” part when you have your orchestration running.3. Make sure in the adapter properties of your send port that the “document target namespace“...
Being so new to Biztalk as I am, I've been surfing the web looking for helpful Biztalk sites. I recently found a blog post by Jon Flanders that has been a huge time saver and I'd like to share it. The chart he created is very useful. When can you just re-gac and re-start by Jon Flanders
For my first blog entry I'd like to mention something that seems to be left out of the many Biztalk tutorials and examples out on the web. Let me start by saying how much this little quirk drove me nuts and how much time I wasted trying to figure out why this strange behavior was happening. I was ready to throw my face into a brick wall a few times. So... its really simple, here goes: Symptoms:In HAT, under Orchestration debugger, your current Orchestration shows up just like you would expect. As...