BizTalk 2006
Recently I ran into an issue with the SOAP adapter giving me the error 'Failed to Serialize the Message Part 'Foo'' ever so often. If I sent 20k messages through I was maybe getting about 100 messages suspended for this error. Now I spend about an hour looking at the messages that failed and I realized the problem really had 'nothing' to do with BizTalk and it was a serialization issue. I basically took the messages that failed and attempted to de-serialize them using a utility in .NET which is what...
Here's my article on SSO. Now I have been a huge DotNetRocks fan forever. I love this show and their others (Mondays and Hanselminutes). I actually just created an application that crawls their sites for new torrents and downloads them. Might be posting that soon as I know a lot of developers that don't want to try to find all the old shows. Also if your a big torrent fan, like I am, get your hands on uTorrent, one of the first torrent clients built in C#. (gotta love it) -B...
Seems like they are making up for the fact that the samples for BizTalk 2004 weren't that great and some never worked at all without massive changes. Here are the new pile of great samples for BizTalk 2006. Thanks Luke. Happy downloading. Now I just need to find the time to look at these. Here's the full sample site from Microsoft. -B ...
First thing you need to do is to make sure that IIS's security is not going to be blocking your calls to the BTSHTTPReceive.dll. To do this goto your IIS manager and click on the Web Service Extension node and right click it and 'Add a new Web Service Extension'. Now browse to the location of BTSHTTPReceive.dll (by default installation its in <drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\HttpReceive\ folder). Also remember to check the 'Set extension status to Allowed' checkbox. It is...
There's nothing like more samples for BizTalk. Get them here. They include using SSO as a configuration store, atomic transactions for COM+, collerating message within orchestration instances, etc. Enjoy. -B
I just installed and used this utility and I must say that I'm a HUGE fan of saving time (it is money!). Go here to download it. This add-in will add a menu item under your tools menu so once your BizTalk project is highlighted you can create an *.snk file. To install the add-in, just compile the add-in project and add the *.add-in file and assembly into your Addin folder (Ex. C:\Documents and Settings\\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Addins\ ) and open VS2005 and goto your Add-in Manager and add...
Here's the new blog from the BizTalk Product Team. Seems that BizTalk 2006 RTM is right around the corner here. Cannot wait for that as I am in the middle of the design phase at a large client and we are designing around 2006 and I was getting nervous that come May (start of construction phase) it still wasn't released. But I can finally sleep at night. We are also looking at using SQL Server 2005 Service Broker with BizTalk 2006 to replace an older MSMQ solution between two systems, and I'll be...
I thought this was a great idea to put the documentation into CHM format for easy accessiblility and navigation. This is still for the beta 2 that is currently out and is the last public beta before the RC is released. There are some topics that are still missing however its still a pretty good read, especially on a long flight. Here's it is. -B...
In testing out the new BizTalk 2006 feature of having Recoverable Interchange Processing I ran across settings in the pipeline component that also have to set up correctly in order for recoverable processing to work properly. You'll get a compilation error (Saying its unsupported) if you set Recoverable interchange processing to True and also have Validate document structure set to True. It seems that once recoverable interchange processing is turned on, the disassembler component splits up each...
My BizTalk 2002 project is finally winding down and needless to stay I'm excited. It was a very successful project but at the same time it was very frustrating to be tied down to old technology. Our team spent weeks upon weeks developing solutions that newer versions of BTS already fixed out of the box, it was a good exercise in self control. Its a great time to get back into BizTalk 2004-06 and WF. I just saw that the WinFX January CTP was released. Get it here. There seems to be significant changes...
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