Every organization (and developer) has their own development project structure. I’ve set up a BizTalk project structure that my company will use for all new BizTalk projects. To make life easy, I also built a simple VBScript file to automatically… Read More ›
Month: March 2007
Reusing BizTalk Oracle Adapter DSN
I finally had the excuse to use BizTalk Server 2006 Single Sign On for application configuration data. In one of my current BizTalk projects, I’m using a long running transaction which loops through and starts up other orchestrations. When those… Read More ›
New BizTalk Book Out
Big congrats to Darren Jefford for finishing Professional BizTalk 2006. Darren throws out a quick summary of each chapter here. Given how few books existed for those struggling to learn BizTalk Server 2004, it’s a welcome change to see so… Read More ›
Fun With BizTalk, XPath, and Namespaces
The BizTalk Xpath statements usually required for my projects never seem to be as simple as the examples I find online. Usually, it’s because I’m stuck using namespaces, unlike virtually every sample Xpath ever written. Last week I was working… Read More ›
View XSLT Output In Internet Explorer
Yesterday I was working on some XSLT stylesheets, and was testing them in Internet Explorer. That is, I was applying the <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”<stylesheet>.xsl”?> declaration to the top of my XML document, and then viewing the transformed output in IE…. Read More ›
A Walk Through the BizTalk 2006 Oracle Adapter
Two of the six BizTalk projects I’m currently working on require me to access Oracle databases. So, I set out to prove out four major uses cases for the out-of-the-box Oracle BizTalk adapter. Scenario #1 – Receive messages into BizTalk… Read More ›
Building a Complete Certificate Scenario With BizTalk Server 2006
I’m working on a BizTalk project where we’re testing the use of security certificates, and I’ve just had a bear of a time finding thorough walkthroughs of setting this up. It’s barely mentioned in the available BizTalk books, and while… Read More ›
