I learnt something new about SOAP adapter today so thought of sharing. I never realised but BizTalk SOAP adapter by default is configured to look into Orchestration proxy code while creating a SOAP request. In other words message natively formed within orchestartion is mapped to the body (SOAP:Body) part by the adapter by using proxy code embedded in the orchestartion assembly. This became obvious when we tried to create a web request using BizTalk WCF adapter which required mapping applied on a...

Business rules do not fire even when all match conditions seem to have been evaluated to true Have you ever been in a situation when all match conditions in your business rule evaluated to true and still rules didn’t fire? If yes, then read on; you might have been stuck in same situation as mine. Today I was working to modify a business rule that I wrote a while ago when I got completely stuck with the issue described as below. For a minute I thought that I might have unearthed a bug in Business...

Other day I was playing with BizTalk 2009 UDDI feature. With no real background in this area, I was bound hit issues. One of the annoying ones that I came across was to do with simply trying to publish my service. After standard installation and configuration, I browsed http://localhost/uddi/ on my machine with all excitement to publish my very first service. As soon as I selected Publish option (see below) web request failed with an error “Internet explorer cannot display the web page”. I noticed...