Mocking APIs with MMock
There is a time during the development of a project when a developer needs to test the interaction with an external API service. Maybe he needs to...
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 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...
Calling Excel (Web) Services from WCF
Interfacing with Excel Services by means of WCF can be somewhat difficult at first and very subject to a trial and error experience. On my development environment I...
BizTalk Server HL7 – Strange break lines in MSH segment
If you create an HL7 MSH segment with XmlDocument, you can get a strange break line in all empty values, like in the following image.
The HL7 message will also...
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 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...
Developing a WCF Service – Fault Exceptions AND FAULT Contracts
This next post about WCF will show how to integrate Fault Exceptions and Fault Contracts in your service. As written in MSDN Fault Exceptions are used for "......
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...