My experiments with BTS

Nice Regex Tool Espresso..

2012-02-09T09:22:00.000-08:00

Nice Regex tool .http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm

Sharepoint and BizTalk Goodness

2011-01-25T13:38:00.001-08:00

Found this excellent post on Sharepoint BizTalk adaptor

How Enterprise Ready is SQL

2010-08-19T15:37:00.000-07:00

I recently got into an interesting debate on Oracle vs SQL and my point was SQL is pretty rock solid and cheaper for most customers. I will let some statistic do some talking

BizTalk 2010 Beta available for Download

2010-05-20T15:28:00.000-07:00

Folks get your hands on the new BizTalk 2010 Beta here The mapper imporivements alone is worth the money if you do lot of complex maps , HIPPA maps , EDI maps.

Quick EDI Sample Reference

2010-04-01T12:39:00.001-07:00

Just Bookmarking for my own use a good link while I mentor people on BizTalk EDI

Biztalk 2009 R2

2009-11-24T18:35:00.001-08:00

Cant wait to get my hands on BizTalk 2009 R2 after the demo video from PDC . See here The mappergets a complete overhaul with help from MSRTop Features - Relevance Tree - Auto Scroll - Gray out out of focus links ( reduce clutter ) - Move to Page - Search - VS 2010 integration

Returning Data from SAP Tables.

2009-08-26T08:18:00.000-07:00

After spending a few frustrating hours on why my SAP RFC call was not returning data and the call was successful . We founf this little gem here from the LOB adapter team blog If you're sending messages using the channel model instead of using a .NET proxy (for example, in BizTalk) - if the table node is missing from the input XML, we interpret that as if you're not interested in that table. If

DTC

2009-08-11T09:35:00.000-07:00

I find myself referring to these mostly trying to analyze SQL issues with BizTalk using DTCPING.I thought I will bookmark these links INFO: Configuring Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) toWork Through a Firewallhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/250367/EN-US/How to configure RPC dynamic port allocation to work with firewallshttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/154596/How to troubleshoot

Bing..

2009-05-31T09:24:00.000-07:00

I have not been excited on anything related to search from Microsoft in a long time . But I am really excited about Wolfarm Alpha the new decision engine from Microsoft . Now named Bing. The site is not up yet and has a video on it's capabilities for now . I cant wait to get my hands on the real thing . It is pretty cool actually. Check it out... www.bing.com and see the video here

SAP mapping and XSLT fun

2009-04-21T12:31:00.001-07:00

If you are on a BizTalk , SAP project , Your XSLT skills can come real handy . For e.g. here I needed to set a flag to true based on the existence of value in a node. Normally this is easy but in this case that node happens to be in a repeatable group node which can occur n number of times where n is unknown . It would be a mapping nightmare or a

Visual Studio 2010

2009-02-16T14:08:00.000-08:00

There are some cool channel 9 videos on Visual Studio 2010 out there . Check them here here

BizTalk and Dublin

2009-02-03T11:28:00.000-08:00

Where is Biztalk going Post OSLO , Have heard this being talked about in many forums lot of FUD out there . For all those I say read Charles Youngs post on Biztalk and Dublin. Highly recommended read .

Playing with BizTalk 2009

2008-10-17T01:42:00.001-07:00

I have started playing with BizTalk 2009 previously R3 bits and there is so much exciting stuff here . The one that I am most excited is Support for Hyper-V virtualization Support for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio .NET 2008 and SQL Server 2008 MSbuild (finally ) EDI enchancementsUpdated ESB guidance New SQL and Oracle Apps adapters ( Connect natively to Oracle Financials)UDDI 3.0 RFID

BizTalk HTTP Chunked Encoding issues

2008-02-15T11:42:00.000-08:00

You are probably reading this snippet because you have a perfectly working Biztalk App that works and performs in development and unit test but fails during volume tests with a downstream LOB app like say Peoplesoft with which you are trying to post via HTTP. As you may have realized already this due to a chunked encoding issue with BizTalk . BizTalk uses chunked encoding when a message is larger

SOA Conference 2007 Photos

2007-11-11T06:25:00.000-08:00

Marjan has uploaded the MVP Dinner photos with the product group for those of us who were are at the conference . See the photos at the Biztalk Team blog

Debugging BizTalk 2004 and .net 2.0

2007-11-06T13:11:00.001-08:00

I had to debug an old project in 2004 so got one old 2004 machine but I was not able to get my visual studio to attach to the Biztalk service . The machine had .net 2.0 Framework installed .Some googling and saw this post from Tom about problems with BAS installation and whidbey.So on similar lines I made the followwing changes to my BTSNTSvc.exe.config<?xml version="1.0" ?><configuration&

OSLO - The Microsoft SOA Road Map

2007-11-01T11:29:00.000-07:00

OSLO - The new SOA innovation WaveThe SOA Conference in Redmond always has something that gets you excited , This time it is OSLO .No OSLO is not another cool name for a new product . In fact I wont call OSLO oneproduct but a new way of thinking about having a comprehensive ( Shudder ! ) way ofMODEL driven developing and consuming web services delivered through out the stack spanning multiple

Releasing Source code for .net Framework , WCF, WPF , LINQ

2007-10-03T11:11:00.000-07:00

Visual Studio 3.5 Release 2008 is coming with an icing on the cake . The .net framework libraries souurce code is being released under Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL).The release will include full visual studio integeration and will intially have The .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net, System.Security,

Custom XSLT in Biztalk Maps

2007-09-14T13:50:00.000-07:00

Recently someone asked if you can use custom XSLT in Biztalk Maps . The answer is of course yes as the map you built .btm gets translated to an xslt anyway if yo look at the code that gets spewed out .In any case to do that create the map and select source and destination . Click on the map and go to properties. There you will see a property custom XSLT . You can select your custom XSLT here .

Microsoft BPM and SOA Conference 2007

2007-08-22T08:50:00.000-07:00

The dates for the Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference has been announced from Oct 29 to Nov 2nd in MS Campus in Redmond , WA. I like going to the SOA and BPM Conference as it is a more targeted to the line of work I do around BizTalk server 2006 and R2 and frankly between MVP Conference and SOA conference in a year takes up 7 days which I think are well spent on my conference allocation days. Hm..

Covast BBot - Supply Chain Appliance

2007-07-26T09:09:00.001-07:00

I was reading up about the new Covast B2B Appliance the BBot. The idea of appliances in a box is nothing new , but I think as a B2B appliance Covast is the first to offer one that offers supply chain end points an easy way to connect to larger partners . BBot promises built in RFID and SOX compliance . Since it is an appliance model meaning you get the box plug it in and you are ready to

BizTalk on VM machines( Virtual Server , Vmware)

2007-07-02T10:27:00.000-07:00

Though it is known that BizTalk Server 2006 was supported on Virtual Server 2005 . There was a silence on its support for othe VM's . It is quite hard to get some good documentation on what is Microsoft's stand on other VM's . This KB I recently saw throws more lightAs per latest documentation (June 7 , 2007 ) BizTalk 2004 and 2006 is supported on Virtual Server and from a guarded silence on

BizTalk Services Announced

2007-04-23T22:56:00.000-07:00

Some time back when I blogged about the future of BizTalk I got some pretty interesting comments , at that time I felt I could not reply more as it was still under NDA . Now that it is not as of today Microsoft is announcing BizTalk in the cloud or to give the newly christened name BizTalk servicesWhat are BizTalk Services?These services, which have been in internal incubation for the past year,

Morfik Patents AJAX compiler

2007-04-03T13:44:00.000-07:00

Just saw this post at slashdot . From all I understood about reading through the whole text , It converts code written in any language to another format( Let us ignore that it is Javascript for a moment here ) and the fact that it is now becomes executable in browser . Doesn't that make it a compiler of some sort . and here I was thinking you cant patent something like a compiler unless you are

BizTalk or WF vs BizTalk and WF

2007-03-23T08:18:00.000-07:00

Well it is interesting to imagine what the future of a product will be that you love very passionaltely . I am of course talking about Biztalk . Ever since WF was announced and was shipped there was a questionIs WF going to replace Biztalk .Is R2 going to be the last release of biztalk .What is after R2 V next . What after VNext .I have heard V Next is going to be based on WF .That is a lot of