June 2005 Entries
Here's the latest update to The Bloggers Guide to BizTalk. I think this is a wonderful resource and I've been reading it since the beginning. I noticed Neal Walters (of http://biztalk-training.com/ ) has added some content to the resource. I had the opportunity (when BizTalk 2004 was not released yet) to have Neal come to my companyand put on a week's worth of training based on the MS beta curriculum. It was a great experience for our development team. Thanks Neal. -B...
Well I have been doing this for a while now (Using Enterprise Library Logging and Exception Handling with BizTalk 2004) and I happened to google it (how did this turn into a verb?) one fine day and found this great blog by Andy Morrison on the topic. Remember to strong name your Enterprise Library assemblies before starting this. Here's an article by Tom Hollander about strong-naming your Enterprise Library assemblies. I remember when Enterprise Library first came out and I was thinking of using...
I needed to put this up for my own reference because this issue has been plaguing my entiredepartment of developers. A developer wants to be on the up and up and attempts to use Enterprise Library's data or logging blocks and runs tests on their local machines and everything seems to work fine (as they always do!) and once the code is deployed on a Windows Server 2003 the same code is blowing up whenentering the logging or data block saying: [Win32Exception (0x80004005): Access is denied] [InvalidOperationException:...
At TechEd 2005 they just announced that BizTalk 2006 (a.k.a Pathfinder) will be released with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 on Nov. 8th, 2005. I can't wait! -B...
I keep forgetting to put this link up for BizTalk Naming Conventions for Artifacts. Great Resource! -B
First of all the reason you would even want to install this is that it shows you an explorer type list under the My Computer Node in windows explorer of all the BizTalk assemblies that are currently deployed. Very useful resource when handling multiple versions of an assembly. Go to your (BizTalk Installation Folder)\Developer Tools\ Then register the btsasmext.dll file like so: regsvr32.exe btsasmext.dll Now go to My Computer in file explorer and you should see an extra node at the bottom that says...
Here's a list (I got from Jan's Site) of send macros that I reference all the time. Macro Name Value %datetime% Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) date time in the format YYYY-MM-DDThhmmss (for example, 1997-07-12T103508). %datetime_bts2000% UTC date time in the format YYYYMMDDhhmmsss, where sss means seconds and milliseconds (for example, 199707121035234 means 1997/07/12, 10:35:23 and 400 milliseconds). %datetime.tz% Local date time plus time zone from GMT in the format YYYY-MM-DDThhmmssTZD, (for...