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In the Part 4 I covered the XmlTranslatorStream in detail, explaining how it provides powerful coupling of an XmlReader and XmlWriter as it is read.  This revealed how BizTalk manages to execute a pipeline of components in an efficient way - because it is actually reading a series of wrapped streams added by each component in the ...

This post I will focus on BizTalk's stream design, and how it allows for the XmlReader and XmlWriter coupling detailed in Part 3.  Once this topic has been covered, we are finally at a point where all of this background can be applied to achieving actual real world tasks.  Yes I know, about time... This post I will cover the key BizTalk ...

Just in case you haven't heard from every other BizTalk blogger, BizTalk Server 2006 R3 has been announced.  This will support the latest release of technologies - Windows Server 2008, .Net Framework 3.5, VS2008 & SQL Server 2008.  It will also include some new bits too.  See here for the initial announcement.  See here for ...

After covering the ''why'' of streaming design and some comparisons with in memory designs in Part 1, and then some technical differences in regards to moving processing logic from the pipeline components to the readers and streams they use in Part 2, this post will finally begin to dig into how the streaming processing is achieved in ...

In Part 1 I provided a few comparisons of using streaming versus in memory approaches to pipeline component development.  In this post I will move into detailing the concepts behind developing streaming pipeline components (as in how is it technically different from the point of view of a pipeline component), and how a different mindset is ...

As most people that use BizTalk are probably aware, BizTalk 2004 and up allow the properties of a pipeline to be overridden in each send/receive location.  In BizTalk 2006 there is a nice UI via the admin console for doing this. However, what is NOT immediately clear to developers of pipeline components is how this affects when BizTalk calls ...

Hello thrillseekers.  Well here it is - Part 1 of ??? on developing streaming pipeline components for BizTalk Server.  My apologies for the delay of this post after causing mass hysteria with the earlier announcement of a series of posts on Developing Streaming Pipeline Components.  This photo was taken outside my apartment shortly ...

I recently presented at the Toronto BizTalk User Group on the topic of ''Streaming Pipeline Component Development in BizTalk''.  I found this to be a hard topic to present, as the content is possibly easier to absorb when reading it at your own speed and being able to take the time to soak it all in.  It is also a reasonably in-depth ...

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 who attended the presentation were asking for the demo code and powerpoint. The zipped code ...

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 file on the BizTalk machine and then used basic ADO.NET to parse the DBF File into an XML ...