BizTalk
If you, like me, have set the GenerateCSFiles property to 1 (as described here) to get BizTalk to keep the .cs files after they have been generated from the orchestrations and maps, be a bit aware that it can cause some weird problems sometimes. I just had one of my orchestrations indicating that there was an error with some of the shapes. The map was missing, seemingly. The odd thing was that the whole solution was compiling correctly, so the problem seemed only to affect the editor. When looking...
I've been having an error lately that looks like this in the event log: Uncaught exception (see the 'inner exception' below) has suspended an instance of service 'SomeRoutines.OrderHandler(... The service instance will remain suspended until administratively resumed or terminated. If resumed the instance will continue from its last persisted state and may re-throw the same unexpected exception. InstanceId: 875947d5-5c01-4ad7-9d62-a03... Shape name: ConstructUpdateMessage...
If my previous posting was kind of sophisticated, this one is a lot more down-to-earth and basic... I've been struggling during the morning trying to use the "Call Orchestration" feature of BizTalk. A pretty straightforward feature. But, I couldn't just get it to work. If the called orchestration was in the same project as the calling orchestration, it worked Just Fine<tm>, but as soon as I tried to put the called orchestration in its proper place, it just failed. The solution? Well, I got...
I ran into a strange issue the other day with BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Imagine a map (.btm file) that takes multiple messages as its input. Imagine two of those messages being of the same document type, having the same schema. Now... make the first message be normal, like this (this is an excerpt from the full multipart input message to the map): <InputMessagePart_2> <ns4:stock_warehouse_fet... xmlns:ns4="http://StockWare... <ns4:stock_warehouse stock_warehouse_id="170A953...