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Category Archives: BizTalk
Hosting BizTalk WCF Send Adapters in your Custom Application
The BizTalk Adapters for WCF is a collection of several adapters that are designed to make it easy to create BizTalk applications that communicate with WCF-based services or line-of-business applications. It ships with five physical adapters, corresponding to predefined WCF … Continue reading
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Unit-Testing Custom Inline Functoids with the CodeDOM
As far as extending the BizTalk Mapper, custom inline functoids are probably one of the easiest ways. This particular types of functoids are what I called design-time functoids in the sense that they are only required to be made available … Continue reading
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Preserving Input Sequence Order when Aggregating Debatched Messages
In a recent project, Jérémie wanted to improved one BizTalk solution where messages are debatched upon reception, processed independently and aggregated again before transmission to downstream processes or application partners. This is sort of a classic Scatter-Gather pattern. The catch, … Continue reading
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PowerShell Provider for BizTalk Server 1.2.0.4 Released
It’s been a long while since I did some blogging. Fortunately, Randal has been working towards producing a new 1.2.0.4 release of our PowerShell provider for BizTalk Server. This version fixes a couple bugs and I invite everyone to test … Continue reading
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Microsoft® MVP BizTalk 2012
It is with great honor and much pride that I have been given the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Microsoft BizTalk Server in 2012, for the second year in a row. A big thanks to all my family, my … Continue reading
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Building Multiple Projects in Order with MSBuild
When building projects grouped in a solution, Visual Studio figures out the project dependencies and respect the build order. However, if you’re not using Visual Studio .sln solution files when building a set of projects with MSBuild, the build order … Continue reading
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Enabling Incremental Compilation of BizTalk .btproj MSBuild Files
Since BizTalk Server 2009, BizTalk Server project files are MSBuild .btproj XML files. For some reason, BizTalk projects need to be compiled in two phases. The first pass compiles schemas, maps and pipelines, and produces an intermediate managed assembly. The … Continue reading
Debugging XSLT Stylesheet with Custom Extension Objects from Within Visual Studio
When developping complex maps with the BizTalk Mapper, you sometimes find yourself in a situation where you need to debug the underlying logic of the associated XML stylesheet. In situations like these, it is customary to have Visual Studio generate … Continue reading
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Exploring Performance, Throttling and Latency Settings with the PowerShell Provider for BizTalk
One of the new features in BizTalk Server 2010 is a new UI that lets you modify a whole host of performance-related settings. Those settings apply to the BizTalk Group, Hosts or Host Instances. This is a massive feature! Previously, … Continue reading
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Communicating with Windows Azure Queues with the WCF BizTalk Adapter for Windows Azure Storage Services
As part of its Cloud Computing offerring, Microsoft provides highly elastic and reliable capabilities for storing structured and unstructed data from anywhere over an internet connection. One thing I’m being very interested in, is the capabilities that Windows Azure Storage … Continue reading
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