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Friday, August 29, 2008 12:41 PM

BizTalk - Predefined Macros that are useful when working with files

For some time I have been ploughing through documentation in search for a simple list of all predefined BizTalk macros ... have not found the consolidated list as yet, but the following post by Linglom summarises predefined macros that are very useful when defining output filenames on FILE send handlers: http://www.linglom.com/2008/06/08/biztalk-macros-on-file-send-adapter/ The post defines the following macros: %datetime% %datetime_bts2000% %datetime.tz% %DestinationParty% %DestinationPartyQualifier...
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Friday, August 29, 2008 12:27 PM

An introduction to BizTalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 6b of many BizTalk Fridays (Automating Processes)

Continued from this morning at http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/08/29/an-introduction-to-biztalk-2006-by-the-atc-collective-day-6a-of-many-biztalk-fridays-orchestrations.aspx . Automating ... or should that be controlling ... Business Processes Orchestrations need to be managed, controlled and synchronised. BizTalk packs a few pieces of tools in this regard, in terms of scope, group, flow control, expression and exception shapes. Let us explore all of these 'quickly': Scope  ...
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Friday, August 29, 2008 9:53 AM

An introduction to BizTalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 6a of many BizTalk Fridays (Orchestrations)

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/08/22/an-introduction-to-biztalk-2006-by-the-atc-collective-day-5b-of-many-biztalk-fridays-pipelines.aspx ... another BizTalk Friday begins. Orchestrations Orchestration Services and Designer make up an environment within BizTalk that allows us to model, define and save a business process, made up of multiple components, logic and rules, for compilation and use. Some notes: The Orchestration designer gives us an integrated, visual editor. The...
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Monday, August 25, 2008 8:15 PM

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) ... something new ... at least for me q;-)

So what is WPF according to our GUI/WPF/Silverlight Monk? The next generation presentation system. Takes advantage of modern graphics hardware. Allows developers and designers to build visually stunning user experiences. Introduces an architecture where development and design can be truly de-coupled. Based on Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), which in turn is based on XML. My 1.8 cents worth overview on WPF, based on the bootcamp Today we attended a gruelling ... for our monk Herman...
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Friday, August 22, 2008 1:35 PM

An introduction to BizTalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 5b of many BizTalk Fridays (Pipelines)

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/08/22/an-introduction-to-biztalk-2006-by-the-atc-collective-day-5a-of-many-biztalk-fridays-message-routing.aspx , part A of today, which focused on message routing. Pipelines Pipelines are the enabling magic in BizTalk that pre-processes messages as they enter or leave the BizTalk empire. As shown a receive pipeline is tied to a receive port and performs typical processing such as decryption or splitting of messages. A send pipeline performs...
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Friday, August 22, 2008 11:54 AM

An introduction to BizTalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 5a of many BizTalk Fridays (Message Routing)

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/08/15/an-introduction-to-biztalk-2006-by-the-atc-collective-day-4b-of-many-biztalk-fridays.aspx . Last time we looked at BizTalk Schemas and Mapper ... today we explored the fascinating world or routing a simple message and creating a pipeline. ... except that we are investigating BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Routing Messages BizTalk uses a publish and subscribe messaging model. The publishing process receives messages on the receive port places messages...
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Friday, August 15, 2008 2:00 PM

An introduction to BizTalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 4b of many BizTalk Fridays

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/08/15/an-introduction-to-biztalk-2006-by-the-atc-collective-day-4a-of-many-biztalk-fridays.aspx . Last time we looked at BizTalk Schemas, now let us look at BizTalk Maps and create one using the Biztalk Mapper. So what is the actual difference between XML import and include (re-cap from last post)? Import works well when two schemas have different Target Namespace attributes. Include only works when both schemas share the exact same Target Namespace...
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Friday, August 15, 2008 1:54 PM

An introduction to Biztalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 4a of many BizTalk Fridays

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/08/14/an-introduction-to-biztalk-2006-by-the-atc-collective-day-3-of-many-biztalk-fridays.aspx . BizTalk Server 2006 can receive messages formatted as XML, flat files or as Electronic Document Interchange (EDI). This brings us to the topic of BizTalk schemas ... Terminology XML Namespace ... W3C standard for providing uniquely named elements and attributes and the primary objectives is to avoid conflict. The xmlns attribute is used to define...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:03 PM

An introduction to Biztalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 3 of many Biztalk Fridays

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/08/02/an-introduction-to-biztalk-2006-by-the-atc-collective-day-2b-of-many-biztalk-fridays.aspx and focusing on administration. Due to the strange alien hosts visiting me last week as per post Sorry for blogging and mental absence ..., I was unable to attend the day 3 of our sessions and had to catch up after hours. Here are my notes... Administration Tasks Again the BizTalk Server 2006 Administration Console delivers a wealth of functionality...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 9:05 AM

An introduction to Biztalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 2b of many Biztalk Fridays

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/08/02/an-introduction-to-biztalk-2006-by-the-atc-collective-day-2-of-many-biztalk-fridays.aspx and focusing on our homework, BAM and concluding with a number of questions and answers. BAM What is BAM? Business Activity Monitoring gives us insight into the BizTalk applications, such as number of messages, trends and performance. BAM provides overviews of trends by aggregating data ... allowing developers to review the behaviour of their solutions...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 8:40 AM

An introduction to Biztalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 2 of many Biztalk Fridays

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/07/30/an-introduction-to-biztalk-2006-by-the-atc-collective-day-1c-of-many-biztalk-fridays.aspx , this is the second day of our BizTalk Server 2006 exploration journey. Business Rules Business Rules (BR) Engine BizTalk Server 2006 provides the Business Rule Engine (BRE), with a graphical Business Rule Composer, based on a IF-THEN condition-action. No, there is no ELSE! Rules are used to: Trigger notifications Automate approvals Reroute documents...
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Friday, August 01, 2008 12:10 PM

MSDN Community Distribution - July 2008

We have just received the July 2008 edition of the community distribution ... if you need a copy, please bring a DVD or external drive to TechED (South-Africa) and we can give you a copy. What's on the DVD? Main Themes Why Develop for Windows Vista? Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview Your Featured Content Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation Getting Started with Windows Presentation Foundation What's New in Windows Presentation Foundation...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:47 PM

An introduction to Biztalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 1c of many Biztalk Fridays

It is still not Friday yet,  but we have been working on our homework. In continuation from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/07/30/an-introduction-to-biztalk-2006-by-the-atc-collective-day-1b-of-many-biztalk-fridays.aspx let us briefly explore the removal of a BizTalk application. Firstly, my colleague Ryan added an excellent comment to my last post and I quote: " One of the nicest things about Applications in BizTalk server is the ability to add references to other Applications...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:19 AM

An introduction to Biztalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 1b of many Biztalk Fridays

It is not Friday yet,  but we have been working on our homework. In continuation from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/07/25/an-introduction-to-biztalk-2006-by-the-atc-collective-day-1-of-many-biztalk-fridays.aspx , we will briefly look at Biztalk Server applications and the deployment thereof. BizTalk Server Artifacts Anything created by Visual Studio 2005 for BizTalk is considered to be a BizTalk artifact. Some of the common artifacts include schemas which define the structure of messages...
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Friday, July 25, 2008 2:44 PM

An introduction to Biztalk 2006 by the ATC Collective ... Day 1 of many Biztalk Fridays

We are busy going through a series of BizTalk sessions, trying to understand the product a bit better q;-) I will summarise my findings after each session, hoping that my colleague Ryan will jump-in to correct or add where necessary ... as we are not Biztalk gurus.   As shown on the extract from our BizTalk poster, the product 'basically' consists of the following components: Messaging Engine ... processes messages, i.e. receive, parse, extract, deliver and track. Routing is based on...
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