One of our BizTalk developers had a requirement to collect related messages and send a single email summary with details about those messages. I built the example below to help her out. In this scenario, a series of independent, but related, messages are sent to BizTalk. Each of these messages will have a “batch ID” […]
May 22, 2008
The latest issue of the BizTalk HotRod magazine is out. Some of the topics you’ll find are: Detailed look at using the ESB Guidance Exception Management framework Exposing BizTalk BRE rules via WCF services Look at parallel convoys Peek at the BizTalk WCF adapters Taking control of XSLT in BizTalk solutions Hosting WF in BizTalk […]
May 19, 2008
I’m currently architecting a project where one of the requirements is to limit the number of concurrent calls to a web service. I’d covered a similar topic in a previous post, and outlined two ways one could try and configure this behavior. First, you could limit the number of simultaneous connections for the SOAP adapter […]
May 16, 2008
So the documentation that comes with the BizTalk Adapter Pack makes scant reference to flowing transactions to the adapters. That is, if I want to call the “Insert” operation on an “Orders” table, but only commit that if the “Insert” operation on the “Order Items” table succeeds, how do I wrap those operations in a […]
May 15, 2008
Earlier this week, I grabbed a couple new CDs, hopped in the car, and drove down to San Diego to present at the .NET User Group’s Connected Systems meeting. The topic was the BizTalk Adapter Pack and I outlined what the BAP is, what the core use cases are, and demonstrated how to build a […]
May 14, 2008
Michele recently wrote a lengthy but deliciously thorough article on MSDN (hat tip: Lynn) called Application Deployment Strategies which identifies five core scenarios for using Windows Communication Foundation within a distributed application. Those scenarios include: Enterprise web services. Think secure, interoperable services that may also utilize new-ish WS* standards such as WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-ReliableMessaging. Web […]
May 8, 2008
UPDATE: I have since moved these articles to my own blog and they can be found here. Whew. My 9th and final article for TopXML.com on integrating BizTalk Server and WCF is now published. This one looks at the BizTalk Adapter Pack and how to consume the Oracle adapter from inside BizTalk Server. I demonstrated […]
May 5, 2008
UPDATE: I have since moved these articles to my own blog and they can be found here. So how would you use the BizTalk Adapter Pack to build a RESTful HTTP URI on top of an Oracle database table? What about calling Oracle stored procedures that made use of either strong or weak ref cursors? […]
May 29, 2008
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