Biztalk xml header processing
When we use infopath or similar technologies with biztalk, the messages have always a xml processing header. Biztalk does not copy xml processing header to the output messages by...
BizTalk 2006: Custom Functoids and their Icons
When you develop custom functoids in BizTalk Server 2006, one of the steps you have to do is create icons to represent them in the mapper. These functoids...
Editing .ODX Files / Regenerate Orchestration Code
Everybody with some experience with BizTalk Server knows that sometimes the ODX files get garbled and have to be fixed manually. I’ve had situations where the compilation of an...
BizTalk Mapper: Reverse Map’s Links Direction
In data sincronization or entity integration scenarios developed using BizTalk Server, there are frequently situations where bi-directional maps have to be developed between two schemas: from A to B...
Custom Property demotion – Using IDocumentSpec and IPropertyAnnotation
Sometimes the property demotion rules are very difficult to apply in the Xml Assembler Pipeline. There are some limitations: • The Biztalk context dependency forces that data must be in...
BizTalk 2004 SP1 – Pipeline component “Properties validation failed. The document schema does not...
There is an issue in BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 that came up while configuring a flat-file disassembler pipeline component with a given document schema. The problem is as follows.
The...
BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide + MsgBoxViewer
Microsoft has published a few days ago a new guide around optimization of BizTalk Server performance. This is a lengthy guide (over 200 pages), but it has a lot...
Instrumentation Best Practices for High Performance BizTalk Solutions + BizTalk Software Factory for BizTalk...
This one slipped me last year. A Microsoft whitepaper about Instrumentation Best Practices for High Performance BizTalk solutions. A reminder of the impact of trace and debug on BizTalk...
BizTalk 2004/2006: Not all Delay Shapes are created the same
While doing a simple copy&paste of a Delay shape to the outside of a Listen block, I noticed a slight difference between the use of delay shapes inside and...
BizTalk 2013 RTM and Azure IaaS Support
A few days ago I attended the Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day with my colleagues Pedro Vala and Tiago Oliveira. Steef-Jan’s session on cloud based adapters was interesting (although part...