BizTalk 2006: The property has a value with length greater than 256 characters.

This is one of the unique errors I came across the other day.
Error: The value assigned to property is not valid…… The property “FurtherDetails” has a value with length greater than 256 characters.
The error was reproduced with a property that was being promoted (using correlations) – something very common with orchestrations. However, in [...]

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BizTalk 2006: Using the Assembly Viewer tool

How often have you wanted to look at the your deployed Biztalk Assemblies – and have ended up searching the GAC ! - which is messy and contains a big pile of assemblies.
The BizTalk Assembly Viewer is a tool (windows extension shell) for examining deployed BizTalk assemblies and assembly types.  Here are the highlights ..
  

     
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SQL : Deadlock priority

While using BizTalk with SQL, I have often come across scenarios where my database instances are being deadlocked. Mostly this has happened because another instance of my application has access to it.
One of the great things about BizTalk – is the retry functionality of the ports. Even, if my resources are deadlocked - BizTalk would retry [...]

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BizTalk 2006: Using the Rolling File appender in Log4Net

The rolling file appender  in Log4Net isn’t as perfect as we would expect. The feature creates another file every day OR when size has increased the threshold (depending on the configuration), has a potential bug . Although, the following bug cannot be replicated every time but there are tons of people asking about the following. [...]

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BizTalk 2006: MQSC Adapter – Attempted to read or write protected memory

Hope this saves you some valuable debugging time. While using the MQSC adapter with BizTalk, I received the following errors:
Error: Details “Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt
The error indicates that the queue is write protected, or the configuration pointing to the queue is incorrect.

Solution: Change [...]

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BizTalk 2006: Using the MQSC Adapter

 

 

I’m not a fan of IBM products – simply because MS creates better UIs J (.. I had to come up with some reasoning  ). We had a requirement to listen and write to queues hosted in Web Sphere. The Client-Based BizTalk Adapter for WebSphere MQ (MQSC Adapter) is designed for BizTalk Server and [...]

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