Excel into BizTalk 2006 - the easy way
FarPoint just released a pipeline disassembler component for Excel documents (called "FarPoint Spread for Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006"). It looks pretty cool! It comes with a "Spreadsheet Schema...
View ArticleVS 2005 project on the old IIS
As most people know the web project that are created and tested in VS 2005 run on an internal web server (called Cassini).In some situations this is useful as it enables one to quickly get the project...
View ArticleMore BizTalk and integration related Webcasts!
I found a couple of really good webcasts here!
View ArticleFileSystemWatcher Class
I just found the FileSystemWatcher class in the System.IO namespace. It provides the functionality to listen on the file system for changes on a file or directory. The class fires a couple of events:...
View ArticleBizTalk Server 2006 Troubleshooters Guide
I've just started reading the new BizTalk Server 2006 Troubleshooters Guide, it's basically 133 pages packed with best practices and common pitfalls to avoid. It's seems to be a great resource and I'll...
View ArticleCSS Control Adapter Toolkit
A while ago Microsoft released the CSS Control Adapter Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0. It finally makes it possible to use all the time saving ASP.NET controls in 2.0 without all the horrible HTML they used...
View ArticleVisual Studio Database Project
I've realized that I never understood the full potential of the Visual Studio Database Project. None of the projects I've worked on has had a effective process on handling changes and versioning of the...
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Virtual Desktop Manager in XP PowerToys
Today someone complained about Windows XP's lack of virtual desktops and that Mac had the possibility to have several desktops active with different content. I remembered that had tried something like...
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XML comment in BizTalk output message
We ran into an issue today when we had to have an XML comment just below the XML declaration in a message we're producing in our BizTalk 2006 solution. We needed to produce something like the...
View ArticleARCast - Patterns and Anti-Patterns for SOA
I'm a loyal ARcast listener and I think I've listened to most of the shows that ever been produced (at least those that are available in the archive). I also listen to a couple of other podcasts that...
View ArticleBizTalk Deploy Tool
I'm currently working in a stabilization phase on a deployment application for BizTalk 2006 projects. We based the solution on the Enterprise Solutions Build Framework and the BizTalk Explorer Object...
View ArticleNevermind the XML namespaces in Xpath expressions
Understanding Xpath expressions is definitely a success factor when working with BizTalk development. Xpath is extremely powerful (when one gets it right) but it's one of the must frustration...
View ArticleGmail and Opera Mini on the phone!
A couple of months ago I found the new Gmail mobile application. It's a clean small Java application that one downloads to the mobile phone for accessing the Gmail account.The application has easy...
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BOM - Byte Order Mark in BizTalk output
Today was another day of new BizTalk problems ... The task was easy; produce a XML file and send to a receiving system. Fine. Done. ... Not.The receiving system could not read the file because of some...
View ArticleAdvanced Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005...
Scott Colestock has a vary thorough article on TechNet about MOM 2005 and BizTalk. It's really amazing what it possible to accomplish when one gets these two solutions to play together.
View ArticleHow to set a custom file name using the file adapter in BizTalk
Found this article on the code project on how to set a custom name on a output file - something I recently had to do. It also contains a list of all the macros that are available in the file adapter -...
View ArticleWeb service times out before the orchestration completes
Today we ran into some problems when making a call to a web service that took more than 90 seconds via the SOAP adapter. After 90 seconds we got a "System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed-out"...
View ArticleTestable data access code
As one of the most important rules for a test is that it can't rely on state, I've always found automated data access testing hard. As I view it there are three approaches to accomplish reliable...
View ArticleUnderstanding persistence points
I found this post from Richard Seroter's blog on persistence points interesting. The post deals with the basics in persistence points and how to tweak them to get a resumed orchestration to resume at...
View ArticleAssembly loading policy from the GAC
UPDATE: This does not apply to BizTalk ... I've made an update post here. Sorry.We're working with a lot of code libraries that we use in different parts of our BizTalk solutions. As the are used on...
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