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Third party BizTalk monitoring tools
>> **Update 2012-03-28** When looking into BizTalk monitoring and overall governance tools for BizTalk, don’t miss [BizTalk360](http://www.biztalk360.com/). BizTalk 360 wasn't available when this...
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What kind of integration patters do you implement in BizTalk?
I like to divide BizTalk based integrations into three different patterns. Point-to-point integration Broker-based integration ESB-based integrationI am sure someone could come up with fancier names...
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BAM tracking data not moved to BAM Archive database
There are a few really good blog post that explains BAM – like this from Saravana Kumar and this by Andy Morrison. They both do a great job explaining the complete BAM process in detail.This post will...
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Checking if BizTalk binding file is up-to date during deployment
As all of you know the number one time consuming task in BizTalk is deployment. How many times have you worked your way through the steps below (and even more interesting - how much time have you spent...
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Streaming pipeline and using context ResourceTracker to avoid disposed streams
Recently there’s been a few really good resources on streaming pipeline handling published. You can find some of the here.aspx) and here.aspx).The Optimizing Pipeline Performance.aspx) MSDN article has...
View ArticleUsing XSLT 1.0 to summarize a node-set with comma separated values
Pure XSLT is very powerful but it definitely has its weaknesses (I’ve written about how to extend XSLT using mapping and BizTalk previously here) … One of those are handling numbers that uses a...
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Is there a bug in BizTalk 2006 R2 SP1?
>> **Update 2012-03-28 **This bug was fixed in the CU2 update for BizTalk 2006 R2 SP 1. Further details can be found [here](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2211420) and...
View ArticleUse code blocks to extend your BizTalk custom XSLT maps
**Update 2010-04-13 **Grant Samuels commented and made me aware of the fact that inline scripts might in some cases cause memory leaks. He has some further information...
View ArticlePromote properties in a EDI schema using the EDI Disassembler
I’ve doing a lot of EDI related work in BizTalk lately and I have to say that I’ve really enjoyed it! EDI takes a while to get used to (see example below), but once one started to understand it I’ve...
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End-to-end tracking using BAM services and the BAM Service Generator tool
An integration between systems can often be view upon as a chain of system and services working together to move a message to its final destination.One problem with this loosely-coupled way of dealing...
View ArticleUpdate to BAM Service Generator
I have previously written about how to generate a types set of WCF services to achieve end-to-end BAM based tracking – making BAM logging possible from outside potential firewalls and/or from non .NET...
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Using BizTalk Web Documenter as a new way of documenting your BizTalk solutions
2012-09-30: I’ve renamed the whole project and moved it to GitHub. Hope to see you there!As most BizTalk developers/architects you have probably been in a situation were documentation of your...
View ArticleReborn as BizTalk Web Documenter!
About a year ago I published a project that helps automating documentation for BizTalk Server – much like BizTalk Documenter but with the difference that this tools instead generates a dynamic web...
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Presenting on “Efficient system integration documentation” at BizTalk User...
I’ve talked a lot about efficient documentation previously on this blog, both when in comes to splitting the documentation up in different layers as here, but also in relation to tools BizTalk...
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Export BizTalk Server MSI packages directly from Visual Studio using BtsMsiTask
Getting a full Continuous Integration (CI) process working with BizTalk Server is hard!One of the big advantages in a working CI process is to always have tested and verified artifacts from the build...
View ArticleTalking Application Lifecycle Management and BizTalk in Gothenburg
Back in February I and my college Robin did an presentation on ALM and BizTalk for the BizTalk User Group in Stockholm. In the two hour presentation we talked about things like:Pros and cons on...
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Why full NuGet support for BizTalk projects is important!
Let’s start with a summary for those who don’t feel like reading the full post.Using NuGet to handle BizTalk dependencies for shared schemas, pipeline components and so on works fine today.As .btproj...
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Getting digital certificates right in BizTalk using a third party root...
Digital certificates and asymmetric security is notoriously hard to get right in a Windows environment. Getting it right in a BizTalk context isn't exactly easier.In this scenario a BizTalk Server act...
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Calling an on premise Microsoft Dynamics CRM using BizTalk and Active...
This post was originally posted here.Federated security is a great way of accomplishing single-sign-on (SSO) security for your applications. It’s also a technique that is becoming increasingly relevant...
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Build and generate MSI for BizTalk Server using Team Foundation Build Services
Using a build server and leveraging continuous integration is good practice in any software development project. The idea behind automated build and continuous integrations is to have a server that...
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