Richard Seroter - SoCal BizTalk MusingsBlog featuring tips, code and guidance for BizTalk Server, Commerce Server and Host Integration Server from Microsoft's former Southern California BizTalk Technology Specialist. For new postings, check out http://seroter.wordpress.com.Using BizTalk Server For Email Alert Bus- December 28, 2006 Just recently I had a customer ask me if they could use their existing BizTalk infrastructure to manage events that were spawned from their primary application. So, I built a small demonstration that I've outlined here. Basically, this company's primary application triggers events that should result in email notifications. They wanted something that could listen for these events, send emails, and be flexible and easy to modify. The key is that last part. I wanted..http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/12/28/using-biztalk-server-for-email-alert-b... Versioning Strategy for BizTalk Assemblies- December 20, 2006 I spent a bit of time today reviewing some best practices for assembly version in BizTalk applications, and wanted to also elicit community feedback. One of the first things that a new BizTalk developer is told when building up a BizTalk solution is to not cram all the various artifacts into a single .NET project. Often that developer will be told to put schemas in one project, maps in another, pipelines in another, and finally orchestrations in an isolated project. I've become...http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/12/19/versioning-strategy-for-biztalk-assemb... Transactions and Compensation Using BizTalk Server- December 6, 2006 After reading Charles Young's fantastic post today on BizTalk transaction compensation, I was finally inspired to write a post that's been on my blog "to do" list for 7 months. Specifically, I wanted to demonstrate simple compensation handling, and dealing with loops and transactions. I'd like to walk through a simple solution I just built and demonstrate the transactional considerations. The first thing to show here is that data (variables, messages) manipulated within an...http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/12/06/transactions-and-compensation-using-bi... |