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Some BizTalk pipeline development advice

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 28th Oct, 2004

Charles Young has put together a number
of recommendations for
anyone embarking on BizTalk 2004 pipeline
development. He calls them “The
Ten Commandments“, and the only thing I can say is: If I knew all this before
I embarked on developing custom pipeline component, I might have more hair on
my head today!

MSMQT problems …

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 26th Oct, 2004

Scott Colestock recounts an interesting
experience with MSMQT together with some pointers he picked up along the way. The
lessons learnt include:

“As it turns out, although it isn’t
documented as such, a Send Port with this option checked can only work if MSMQT has
been installed in Active Directory-integrated mode.  If
you have the “Use MSMQ Authentication” option checked on [...]

Create your own BizTalk Assembly

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 26th Oct, 2004

Very interesting post on Jon Flander’s blog on how to manually create your very own BizTalk assembly.
“In BizTalk schemas are compiled into a .NET type. The type derives from Microsoft.XLANGS.BaseTypes.BaseSchema and has a read-only property named XmlContent that returns a string which is really just the XSD. When an assembly with a schema type is [...]

BizTalk 2004 Convoys

Posted by: Owen on Friday, 22nd Oct, 2004

Interested in how BizTalk 2004 handles
Sequential Correlated Receives. Check out the Convoy
Processing presentation on MSDN
TV. Interesting stuff, presented by Erik Leaseburg.

HOWTO: Set up MSMQ and MSMQT on the same machine

Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 13th Oct, 2004

EldarM has
the low down on how to set up MSMQ and MSMQT on the same machine. I’ve seen this question
asked countless times on the BizTalk newsgroups.
Must try it one day. Read about it here.

Blogger’s Guide to BizTalk

Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 9th Oct, 2004

Alan Smith has collated a most excellent collection of BizTalk-related posts from around the blogsphere into a .chm file with around 88 articles. He calls this The Bloggers Guide to Biztalk and also plans to update this monthly!
Great work Alan!!!

Rock on Solidsoft

Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 6th Oct, 2004

James ran into a BizTalk Server 2004 problem today where SQL Server was reporting the following error (amongst others):
Warning: The table ‘#catalogs’ has been created but its maximum row size (8281) exceeds the maximum number of bytes per row (8060).
Duncan beat me in pointing out that there’s a KB article about this problem and how [...]

BizTalk 2002 Revisited

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 5th Oct, 2004

I’ve just spent the day playing with BizTalk
2002 trying to fix a mapping problem for a client. Using the BizTalk Mapper is
tantamount to smashing open a walnut with a towel. You’ll get there in the end, just
not the way you think. I could have fixed the problem in a couple of lines of XSL,
but instead [...]

MQ Series adapter for BizTalk 2004

Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 29th Sep, 2004

Microsoft’s MQ
Series adapter for BizTalk 2004 has been officially released!

BizTalk bits

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 23rd Sep, 2004

Time to catch up on some BizTalk news ..

Kevin releases a Test
Framework for Rapid Test Case Development.

Martijn releases a BizTalk
Explorer UI.

Charles describes some
problems he’s been having with custom pipelines (and goes into detail on how these
work.

Gilles is writing a whole series of articles on the format of BizTalk assemblies, here, here and [...]

Querying the BizTalk Messagebox

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 21st Sep, 2004

In case you haven’t seen this yet, Lee has posted some documentation on how you can
extract valuable information from the BizTalk messagebox. If you’re interested in
what BizTalk is doing under the covers, or simply want to tune your system, this is
a must-read. Get it here.

Paul gets famous

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 16th Sep, 2004

My mate Paul Somers (who really needs to start updating his blog), has been all over the BizTalk news recently for winning the BizTalk 2004 Developer Competition. Check out his entry: a much needed BizTalk 2004 Management Tool.

The Dummy’s Guide to Installing BizTalk 2004

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 9th Sep, 2004

Just came across this guide which has a step-by-step installation process, together with links to all the relevant patches and software and the estimated time for each section to complete. Thanks Luke.

BizTalk 2004 - Essential Links

Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 28th Aug, 2004

A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that Pete
Wright, a great guy I met when interviewing for Edenbrook,
was delving into BizTalk 2004. I sent
him some links to get started, but since then I’ve compiled a series of BizTalk 2004
related links to blogs, references and other integration-related resources on the
web. Here’s what I have:

BizTalk-specific Links

Understanding
BizTalk - excellent [...]

Windows XP SP2 breaks BizTalk2004

Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 14th Aug, 2004

Windows XP SP2 will
break BizTalk 2004 and you’ll need
the to follow this
KB article to get the two working together. This is due to changes in the
DCOM security model which break SSO .. and consequently cause BizTalk to
fail.

Oh .. and don’t forget it also breaks the Rules
Engine.