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I presented at the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference last week in Redmond. The title of the presentation was: Robust Error Handling for BizTalk Solutions. I did the presentation once on Thurs Nov 1 and again on Friday Nov 2. A number of people
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I deleted the original post by mistake (woops!), so below is to replace the deleted one. Last year a customer had a requirement to process DBF files in BizTalk. I created a custom pipeline component that saved the incoming binary stream to a physical
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This entry discusses using a real RFID reader (Phidget) with BizTalk 2006 R2 RFID Beta 2. There are a couple of RFID samples provided with the RFID install, but they involve simulators for RFID devices. If you want to try a real RFID reader sample with
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A few people have asked for the BizTalk 2004 version of this BizTalk SqlBulkInsert 2006 Adapter Follow the below instructions to install on BizTalk 2004: 1) Download the zip file at the end of this blog entry. 2) When unzipping, unzip it a different folder
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This entry describes two helper methods to interact with messages in a BizTalk orchestration. The first helper methods will return the string representation of a BizTalk message. The methods are as below: /// <summary> /// Pass in a BizTalk Message
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One thing that you learn pretty fast in BizTalk is that messages in an orchestration are immutable/read only. If you need to modify a message in a BizTalk orchestration, you are pretty well restricted to using a Construct shape with encapsulated Transform
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There was a delay in posting this, but just wanted to write a quick note on the MVP Summit that I attended last week (March 12 - March 15) Overall this was an awesome event, well organized, great sessions. Thanks to Sasha Krsmanovic (MVP Lead - Canada)
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This post discusses Failed Message Routing and Failed Orchestration Routing in BizTalk 2006 Failed Message Routing Failed Message Routing is a new feature of BizTalk 2006. You can read about it here: Using Failed Message Routing Below is an excerpt from
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This entry discusses the use of the following to programmatically alter a receive or send pipeline component(s) properties: BTS.SendPipelineConfig BTS.SendPipelineResponseConfig BTS.ReceivePipelineConfig BTS.ReceivePipelineResponseConfig There is a link
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A staple in BizTalk 2004/2006 is to design and implement mapping/transformation operations using the BizTalk mapper. Mapping in BizTalk can be extended and improved by: a) Using a rich set of Functoids that ship with BizTalk. b) Using custom XSLT in a
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Short notice, but I am doing a presentation tomorrow (Thurs. Feb 9) at the Metro Toronto .Net Users Group. You can read more about it here: http://www.metrotorontoug.com/User+Group+Events/231.aspx Demos will include dealing with binary documents (Word
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Below is an example using the new POP3 and Sharepoint Adapters (Sharepoint Adapter now out of the box) for BizTalk 2006. This example demonstrates the following: 1) Processing binary documents in BizTalk. 2) A method to process multiple attachments in
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Jesús Rodríguez has finished a Beta 2 version of Service Broker Enhancements Adapter for BizTalk Server 2006. They are looking for beta testers, so please go HERE if interested. Service Broker is an exciting new feature for Microsoft SQL Server
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The below mapping example could most likely be accomplished using a series of BizTalk maps. In the maps, Table Looping / Table Extractor / Looping functoids etc. could be used to perform the transformation. Sometimes it makes sense to craft your own custom
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I am in the process of writing a new BizTalk 2006 course as below: Preamble BizTalk is all about messaging and how messages are processed and routed between a companies internal applications (for example: Sap/Mainframe/Peoplesoft/ Database/JD Edwards/Web
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