Hi all, I've just read an article from Richard Seroter, about whether BizTalk Server would stay with us for a long time. Check it out - it worth your time. I feel a little bit sad about it - the potential dead end of a nice product, but, looking at the bright side of it - I'm happy with it. It's a nature way of life - to stay on move, to change. Is BizTalk Server Going Away At Some Point? Yes. Dead? Nope. The Future of Middleware and the BizTalk Roadmap BizTalk Server still has a pulse...

Hello, Couple of days ago, I've been requested to make a little POC, about hosting published orchestration as WCF - in biztalk process, instead of on IIS. After looking for a solution, I've created a tiny orchestration - "GetRequestMessage-BuildResponseMessage_WithHardcodedValue-SendResponseMessage". The orchestration received an incoming message through Request-Response port, with direct binding. The subscription was on the Incoming Message type, or any suitable for your purposes...

Today I will tell you how to implement some cool option with BizTalk and send port macros. Lately we were requested to build one of our subsystems, which is responsible for creating reports once a day. Actually, the data is taken from DB, and transformed with a map to a flat file. The trick we needed to implement - was creating a file with a name, built partly of permanent part, and partly to be a date of creation "File_Name_ddMMyyyy.ext" In BTS (for those who don't know) - there's...

Hi, New thing I learned not long time ago: You actually can create template of some orchestration you commonly use in your projects. Can't say it is useful in every and each project, but those who find it suitable for their needs - cool. Steps: 1. Create an orchestration you commonly use, and save it. 2. Go to : C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\Developer Tools\BizTalkProjectItems. 3. Create a folder named [Your Orchestration name]. 4. In the folder put a file named : [Your orchestration...

Hi, Today I'd like to share some problem we met. We got new machine, (happy for that one who got it finally ;) ), and on the machine was installed Windows server 2008 32 bit with prerequisites for Development environment BizTalk 2009. We installed BizTalk, started configuration wizard and hhooop! Not working! After Googling couple of miniutes, the solution was found : If there's .Net Framework 4 on machine installed (yes, we installed it for future work) - you need download and install this...

I've exposed an orchestration as WCF with direct port, and this orchestration consumed another one, which also was exposed as internal service with direct port. After running first test - the described below errors appeared. 1. From Administration Console you can see a Zombie guy - with this error:The instance completed without consuming all of its messages (even if you get correct response on client side). The instance and its unconsumed messages have been suspended. 2. In EventVewer - another...

Hi to all again, long time no see :) Yesterday I begane to receive an error from my BTS application. Strange error - never seen before. The error was about "Operating System" which could not save file etc' (down here). At a first glance I coudn't get - where it comes from, but after couple of debugs I've found that: have no free space on hard drive, of phisycal server, where SQL resides., - we defined that files we save in an application DB, will be saved in file system. And...

BizTalk 2010 Beta 1 & AppFabric RC On the 20th , BizTalk 2010 Beta 1 was released ,  a day after the AppFabric RC. We all know ( at least a bit ) about BizTalk , but regardless we shouldn’t disregard the Windows Server AppFabric which is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS. Windows Server AppFabric targets applications built using ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow...

Hi, Lately I met a problem: BTS service stopped, and also did SSO. When I tried to start SSO - I've got an error " Could not create SSOSQL. To fix the problem, reinstall SSO or try ‘regasm SSOSQL.dll’ from a Visual Studio command prompt. Error Code: 0×80131700 " After googling a bit, found a solution: run next command from command line of Visual Studio regasm c:\Program Files\Common Files\Enterprise Single Sign-On\ SSOSQL.dll This action re-registers SSO Dll. Have a nice week :)

"Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapter.Wcf.Converters.CreateBindingException: Unable to get binding type for binding extension "sqlBinding". Verify the binding extension is registered in machine.config." Hi folks! Couple of days ago, I've tried to run some application on a 64bit machine. The Application uses WCF-SQL adapter (64Bit installed with LOB SDK as prereq.) After I've started an application, I've received a warning, which I never saw before, (of course not, didn't...