bye bye BizTalk, 2002 that is.

Bryan Corazza — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:30:00 GMT

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 from Beta 1 to 2 so grab up those bits and play around.

On another note, just some new BizTalk 2006 webcasts to wet your whistle.

Implementing End-to-End Sequential Processing in BizTalk Server 2006

High Availability, Fault Tolerance and Scalability with BizTalk Server 2006

Enjoy.

-B

BizTalk 2002 Symbols (MACROS)

Bryan Corazza — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:07:00 GMT

Since I have recently been working on a BizTalk 2002 project I thought I would write a little bit about the major differences and how to perform certain tasks that I've forgotten over the years while working on nothing but 2004 (I've been spoiled).

I'll start with the list of usable MACROS (or symbols in the help file):

%datetime%             Date and time, in milliseconds, of the file creation. The time is based on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than local time.
%document_name% Name of the document definition used to process the source file.
%server%                Host name of the server that processed the document.
%src_filename%      Name of the file that is being submitted for processing.
%tracking_id%        Globally unique tracking number.
%uid%                    Counter that increases over time, represented in milliseconds. This number is reset when the server is restarted.

That's a start and there will be more to come as I remember more BizTalk 2002 tips and tricks.