BizTalk Server 2010 Feature Pack
The BizTalk Server 2010 Feature Pack is an add-on to BizTalk Server 2010 that allows BizTalk functionality to be invoked from Windows Azure’s Service Bus. The feature pack specifically...
BizTalk and Gartner Oct’2010
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration Projects (October 2010) places Microsoft in the leader’s quadrant for integration, with BizTalk Server and the global integration platform,...
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...
Interesting BizTalk links…
Details for Version 2.0 of the BizTalk ESB Toolkit (Brian Loesgen) Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Explained for BizTalk Users (Charles Young) Interview Series: Four Questions With … Ewan...
BizTalk Server 2009 RTM on MSDN
This news is a few days late, but couldn’t let it pass: the 2009 version of BizTalk is out on MSDN for download. This is another evolutionary release, containing...
DevDays09: Wrap Up
This year the usual TechDays event focused exclusivelly on Dev contents, and reduced to two days. I was help at IST’s campus on Tagus, a smaller but also cosier...
Using xpath function in orchestrations
Xpath is a function that can be used in any orchestration to set and retrieve data from/to messages.The syntax is very simple:Set a value in message xpath(message, "xpathQuery") =...
BizTalk 2009 Beta Docs & BAM Guidance
Microsoft just published a very interesting an in-depth 86-page document about BAM, one of the most under-used features of BizTalk Server, “Business Activity Monitoring in Depth for Developers”. You...
Replace namespace prefix pipeline component
In some biztalk integrations with legacy systems, there are message specifications that requires a specific namespace prefix, but all biztalk messages use ns0, ns1, ns... definition to define prefix...
ESB Guidance 2.0 (CTP)
There’s an announcement around for the ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP (October 2008). It’s good to know that this is already getting worked on to have new features and work...