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Robust Error Handling for BizTalk Solutions Presentation

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 Read More...

BizTalk -> Custom Pipeline Component for Processing DBF, Excel and other ODBC types

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 Read More...

BizTalk R2 RFID and working with a real Reader Device (Phidget)

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 Read More...

SqlBulkInsert Adapter for VS2003 and BizTalk 2004

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 Read More...

BizTalk Message Helper Methods

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 Read More...

Turning an Immutable Message in BizTalk into a Mutable message

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 Read More...

MVP Summit 2007

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) Read More...

Failed Message Routing and Failed Orchestration Routing in BizTalk 2006

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 Read More...

Dynamically Configuring Pipeline Component Properties in a BizTalk Orchestration

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 Read More...

Extending BizTalk Mapping/Transformation operations into Sql Server

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 Read More...
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