BizTalk: Mapper Enhancements with BizTalk 2009 R2

In the recently concluded PDC 2009 in LA, there were some interesting sessions. The upcoming WCF and WF components will be named Windows AppFabric (former named “Dublin). Keeping all aside, there was an interesting talk about the roadmap for BizTalk. I was specially interested in the following upgrades:
   –> New mapper enhancements to make it easier [...]

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BizTalk 2009 Light and Easy Webcast Series

I haven’t had the chance to spread it across. Pasting it from the MSDN site..
Info:
During the recent months a group of world wide MVPs and Field Experts answered to create this series.
We call this series BizTalk 2009 Light and Easy Webcast Series and we cover 16 different topics all listed under the downloads page.
Contents:

Download page:  [...]

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BizTalk: Highlevel run on the WCF Adapter

The BizTalk Adapter (v2.0) pack provides several WCF adapters to connect to LOB systems. Looking at the SQL adapter to explain how does the magic happen
 
Follow the comments on the right marked in GREEN that describes how a call from BizTalk gets communicated with the SQL database (with ADO.Net as the intermediary). The concept [...]

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BizTalk Server 2006 R2: Compare Editions

After the release of BizTalk 2009 – finding the BizTalk 2006 R2 edition comparion chart has become more than important (just because I couldn’t find it ). Hope it saves you the pain of searching around !

Comparison Matrix

 

Capability Poster

 

Capability Doc

 
(Click icon to download)

 Happy choosing

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BizTalk: Retrieve the “document strong name” value from a BizTalk message stream

Here is a small code snippet to extract the strong name value from a BizTalk message stream.
 
//messageStream is the stream extracted from the BizTalk pipeline context
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(messageStream);
 
string documentMessageType = xmlDoc.DocumentElement.NamespaceURI + “#” + xmlDoc.DocumentElement.LocalName;
 
IDocumentSpec documentSpec = pContext.GetDocumentSpecByType(documentMessageType);
 
string documentStrongName = documentSpec.DocSpecStrongName;
 
Happy coding J

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BizTalk: Performance problems using the SOAP adapter

Consulting with one of my colleague on a BizTalk assignment, we came across a performance question while calling web-services from a BizTalk application. The application was quite simple in BizTalk terms doing the following:
 
1)     Input is an xml file (around 1KB in size)
2)     BizTalk consumes the file and sends it to a web-service (SOAP Adapter)
3)     The [...]

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BizTalk: Database ‘BizTalkMsgBoxDb’ is full

 
Error:
The transaction log for database ‘BizTalkMsgBoxDb’ is full. To find out why space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in sys.databases (.Net SqlClient Data Provider)

 

 
Solution:
sp_helpdb ‘BizTalkMsgBoxDb’
 
ALTER DATABASE BiztalkMsgBoxDb
SET RECOVERY SIMPLE;
GO
 
DBCC SHRINKFILE (BiztalkMsgBoxDb_log, 1);
GO
sp_helpdb ‘BizTalkMsgBoxDb’
 
Hope that helps..
Happy coding
 

 
 

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Update on BizTalk and WCF whitepapers/downloads

There have been a few updates on the BizTalk front – especially with 2009 beta being released recently. With that, here are a few whitepapers/downloads that got me interested…
 
 
1)    Using the WCF adapters in BizTalk 2006 R2
Link: Click here 
 
2)    WCF, WF and .NET 3.5 Whitepapers
Link: Click here 
 
3)    Modifying Messages with the WCF Adapters
Link: Click here 
 
4)    Using [...]

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