Flat file parsing in BTS2006 is pretty nice in general - you get a very specific error back in the error log if your incoming file is in the wrong format for the schema (or, put a more likely way, if you have buggered up creating the schema). However, this vague error stumped us for a little while: There was a failure executing the receive pipeline: "Orders.ContoFFPipeline.Con... Orders.ContoFFPipeline, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=d5d6f7acdeb8... Source: "Flat file disassembler" ......
Here's a braindump that I did for people with 2004 experience who are moving across to 2006. It's just a very quick run through some of the new bits and pieces to look out for. It's not complete, but it might be handy as the 50,000 ft view. It's also written with a dev audience in mind and is not necessarily the view of my employer either! (Is that enough caveats?). New Features Functionally very smilar to 2k4 - nothing like the shift in experience from 2k2 to 2k4. It's a "tidying up/more functionality" ......
Today's tip is brought to you via the BizTalk 2006 Deep Dive training course that I'm on, run by Alan Smith of the Bloggers' Guide to BizTalk fame.. In BizTalk 2004, if you wanted to create an empty output element in your target document via the mapper, you had a couple of options. You could either use a string concat functoid with one empty input parameter, or use a value mapper with 'true' and an empty string as its inputs. Bit tacky really, and in the case of a string concat also a bit slow as ......
Well, Owen has been bugging me to blog... so just to keep him quiet, here's something random...
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