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.Choosing the Right Integration Technology- November 29, 2006 Yesterday Irena Kennedy posted a great compilation of multiple sources which resulted in a big fat post outlining selection criteria for an integration solution. She summarizes choosing between SSIS, MSMQ, WCF, BizTalk, SQL Service Broker, and Host Integration Server. Check it out. Also, if you've never undergone a code review by Irena, you haven't truly lived. It's a truly terrifying and rewarding experience from a brilliant MCS asset.http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/11/29/choosing-the-right-integration-technol... Installing BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta 1- November 28, 2006 Yesterday I did a quick evaluation of the Beta 1 release of BizTalk Server 2006 R2, and thought I'd walk through the installation process and highlight some new things I noticed. The Beta 1 release looks to be for early adopters only, so there is no "public" release at the moment. Hopefully there will be one in the Spring. Also please note that anything shown here is subject to change by Beta 2 or final release. First, I walked through the standard installation. Next I chose the components..http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/11/28/installing-biztalk-server-2006-r2-beta... MSDN Magazine Article on Custom BizTalk Adapters- November 18, 2006 Good article in this month's MSDN Magazine called Integrate E-Mail Processing Into Your Business Solutions. It covers a variety of topics, including the POP3 adapter, orchestration and some BizTalk plumbing. I also found the part on writing a custom adapter to deal with email message attachment parts fairly interesting. The custom adapter takes each message part and adds it to a custom database. Check it out. Technorati Tags: BizTalkhttp://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/11/17/msdn-magazine-article-on-custom-biztal... BizTalk Property Schemas Separated From Associated Schemas- November 17, 2006 I caught a glimpse of something in the BizTalk Server 2006 Help the other day that surprised me a bit. The note said:If a property schema is associated with a message schema, then these two must be in the same BizTalk project. Separating property schema from its associated message schema in different BizTalk projects is not supported. I had seen that mentioned elsewhere and had mentally discarded it, but I wanted to see whether it's not possible, or it's not supported. First step was to build.http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/11/17/biztalk-property-schemas-separated-fro... Using Only BizTalk Messaging With RequestResponse On Both Ends- November 10, 2006 So is BizTalk really smart enough to allow me to do requestresponse operations on both sides of my process without an orchestration in the middle I set out to prove this scenario out for myself and wanted to share the results. I want to see if I can create a web service input into BizTalk, and have that request message trigger a requestresponse send port, and then take the response of that send port, and match it back to the response message of the original call. Make sense So ... Call...http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/11/10/using-only-biztalk-messaging-with-requ... Exposing BizTalk Web Services That Accept Generic Content- November 10, 2006 So what if I want to open up a BizTalk web services channel that accepts any XML message and then lets BizTalk Server figure out what do with that data In considering ESB functionality, you often have the concept of generic ways to get messages "on the bus." Given that BizTalk can be a perfectly good bus, with a robust publish-subscribe engine, it's logical that BizTalk could support such a broad requirement. So what I need is a one-way "BizTalk web service" that accepts untyped content....http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/11/10/exposing-biztalk-web-services-that-acc... Setting Promoted, Distinguished Fields on BizTalk Web Messages- November 10, 2006 Just finishing up a week-long 12-hour-a-day BizTalk workshop for my SoCal customers, and wanted to post a few bits I built for the class. This post focuses on using promoted properties and distinguished fields on web messages. One apparent challenge when consuming an existing web service from within a BizTalk orchestration is the fact that you don't appear to have a schema added to your project. Oh, you get "web message types" and so forth, but that's not the same. What if you need to access..http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/11/09/setting-promoted-distinguished-fields-... |