Michael Stephenson

Over the years one of the tools we have used to help guide improvement of the development of BizTalk applications and deployment to through test…

Been meaning to blog about this topic for a while and it's an area that I've been wondering if it will come up in the future as a governance challenge for…

As many of my readers will know, I've been doing a lot of work around Hybrid integration solutions over the last few years involving Windows Azure Service…

In this post I wanted to explore the options around building a Windows Azure Service Bus appender for log4net (sample download). This would allow me to…

Recently a few people have asked me about the differences between the BizTalk Health Check and the BizTalk Maturity Assessment so I thought I'd put a few…

Just a note to recap some of the discussion and activity from the recent UK Connected Systems User Group in July.

For anyone who is interested I have written a small paper about the theory behind the BizTalk Maturity Assessment using a generic framework I have called…

This week we are preparing for a training course that Alan Smith will be running for the support teams at one of my customers around Windows Azure. In…

Ive been interested in exploring the opportunities around the Fakes Framework for testing BizTalk solutions for a while now, and until recently its been…

Recently I have been working with a customer where we wanted to migrate some source code to TFS Services for source control but we had an existing Build…

I thought I’d brain dump a few thoughts after the recent BizTalk summit and how some of the information will help shape solutions with the customers whom…

As discussed in the introduction article this walkthrough will explain how you can implement WCF security with the Windows Azure Service Bus to ensure…

Recently we have been working on a project using the Windows Azure Service Bus to expose line of business applications. One of the topics we discussed a…

When you work in an integration environment it is common that you will find yourself in a situation where you integrate with some unusual applications or…

Recently I have been working a little with RabbitMQ and also learning about the new Microsoft Service Bus for Windows Server offering which is now…

Name: Don't automatically shove your config in BTSNTSVC.exe.config because its easy? Description: I wrote a blog post a few years ago around the options…

I have recently been having discussions with some of the guys from our Ops Team about the GAC and BizTalk. One of the things they had observed was that…

UPDATE Just to provide an update on this Udi Dahan advised me that: This has now been fixed on the 2.0 branch and on the trunk and a fatal-level log entry…

A while ago I posted an article about an issue when the tracking information for BizTalk appeared not to be working and it was because the stream status…

Just a little plug for the team at Black Marble. On 3rd December they will be hosting the Northern Architecture Forum event.

I've been revisiting a POC I did a while back that involved some custom Windows Service development. It reminded me that it's a little bit of a pain…

A while back in my series of articles about testing with BizTalk I covered a technique for testing pipelines and pipeline components. The background to…

Article Source: https://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson Introduction I did this article ages ago and have just found where I had misplaced it.

Written by: Michael Stephenson (https://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson) Problem Definition It is a common design decision on BizTalk projects when…

Written by: Michael Stephenson (https://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson) The Scenario This is a common scenario with potential BizTalk solutions. You…

The next in my series on BizTalk testing will cover testing pipeline components. I will begin this post by discussing some of the traditional ways I have…

I have been setting up some performance tests using LoadGen today and was having a couple of problems where the message sent by LoadGen wasnt working…

Problem As always happens when you take a few days off work, the build server started having problems. When i looked at it the problem in our build was…

What is reference data? Typically by reference data we mean an attribute of an object within a system that is restricted to a specific list of values. In…

Just wanted to put the word out that the API Management video from the recent user group meeting is available. The page on the below link has resources…