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Hosting a WCF service in Windows Sharepoint Services v3.0

With ASP.NET AJAX Extensions being baked into the .NET Framework 3.5 and the improvements to WCF to support JSON, it seems tempting to write WCF services and host the in Windows Sharepoint Services 3....

BizTalk Decompiler for Reflector 5 on CodePlex

My BizTalk Decompiler only works with Reflector 4. The updated version for Reflector 5 has been available for a while on CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/reflectoraddins...(read more)...

Date/Time tracked with BAM must be expressed in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC)

All date/time tracked by BAM must be expressed in UTC. BAM depends on this to provide accurate durations, among many other things. This is clearly explained here. It was also the case for Bi...

BAM is not supported when SQL Server is set to Mixed Authentication Mode

Tiho has a good entry on why it is that way and how to fix it. He also explains how to diagnose the problem....(read more)...

BizTalk Addin for Reflector

This is an addin for Reflector that allows you to list all BizTalk artifacts contained in an assembly and extract them. Installation Donwload the attached file and extract Reflector.BizTalkDecompiler....

BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer has shipped!

The BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer automatically examines a BizTalk Server 2006 deployment and generate a list of issues pertaining to best practices standards for BizTalk Server deployme...

BAM Query Service: What is it and how can I use it?

If you have installed BAM (BizTalk Server 2004 or BizTalk Server 2006), you may have noticed that a web service called the "BAM Query Service" got installed. As its name hints, this web service all...

BizTalk Server 2006 runs great under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2!

Today, Microsoft announced that Virtual Server 2005 R2 can be downloaded free of charges. BizTalk Server 2006 works great under Virtual Server 2005 R2. When we were developing BizTalk Server 2006, I r...

I am not working for Microsoft Japan, but thanks a lot Jeff!

In a recent entry, Jeff noticed my Debugger Visualizer for MessageContext and mentioned that I am from MSFT Japan. Well, this is not true. I am in Redmond, USA and I work for the BizTalk team. It...

BisTalk Server 2006 Released Today!

You probably know this already. You can find an overview of BizTalk Server 2006 features here. Now that BizTalk 2006 is released, I can speak a little more freely about the product. You can use the "...

BizTalk Server Team Product Management has a Blog!

Visit it here. Kris, Steve, Michael and Mark share product updates, links to training materials and even employment opportunities! I subscribed to their RSS feed....(read more)...

Debugger Visualizer for BizTalk 2006: MessageContext

Visual Studio 2005 added support for Debugger Visualizers. With debugger visualizers, developers can define what information (and in what form) is shown in the debugger for a specific type. There...

BizTalk BAM Portal 2006: Activity Search

In a previous post, I described the home page of the new BAM Portal. Today, let's take a look at the Instance Search feature. The instance search allows you to search BAM data for a particular ac...

BizTalk Server 2006: What is new with Business Activity Monitoring

You probably already read Scott's document on what is new in Business Activity Monitoring 2006.Today, I'll shed some light on the brand new "out of the box" portal. All information are based on...

Get ready for TechEd 2005 in Orlando!

Make sure you pick up a copy of BizTalk Server 2006 CTP (Community Technology Preview). Starting next week, I will start a serie of deep dive posts on some of the new BAM (Business Activity Monitoring...

Download BizTalk 2004 Service Pack 1 today!

BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 1 was released today. You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspxdisplaylang=en&FamilyID=f4a5ab9e-d599-4cc8-abdf-ae6ae68bac3d....

[KB838454] Access tracked messages in the BizTalk 2004 message box

Knowledge Base Article 838454 describes the new Microsoft.BizTalk.MessageBoxOM.MessageArchive object that was added to Microsoft.BizTalk.MessageBoxOM.dll. Currently, the package is only available thro...

Is BizTalk supported when running under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Since Virtual Server has been released, I got asked the question several times so I figured I'd put the answer here where everybody can find it. Knowledge Base Article 842301 says something like:...

How do I work around "Empty choice is unsatisfiable if minOccurs not equal to 0. An error occured at file://[some path to XSD]"

You might have received this error message if you followed these steps: Install BizTalk 2004 on a clean machine with Visual Studio .NET 2003, Start Visual Studio and Create a new C# project (Windows ...

Why does BizTalk display "Status unavailable" for Isolated Hosts

Yet another frequently asked question. When using the BizTalk 2004 Administration Console, isolated hosts always report "Status unavailable" (see below).     BizTalk Server 2004 offers tw...

Format of BizTalk 2004 assemblies: Pipelines

Today, we continue our deep dive into the undocumented and unsupported bowels of the BizTalk artifacts compiler and examine how pipelines get compiled to .NET assemblies. Pipelines allow to ...

Format of BizTalk 2004 assemblies: Maps

Today, we dive deeply into the undocumented and unsupported bowels of the BizTalk artifacts compiler and examine how maps get compiled to .NET assemblies. The BizTalk 2004 Mapper allows to g...

How do I reuse BizTalk 2004 maps outside of BizTalk

Recently, I shed some light on how Maps are compiled to .NET assemblies. Perhaps one of the most asked question on microsoft.public.biztalk.* is "Calling a map from C# or VB.NET". This post attempts...

Format of BizTalk 2004 assemblies: How do artifacts get compiled to .NET assemblies

Today, we explore some undocumented (and therefore not supported) internal parts of BizTalk 2004. When a BizTalk project is compiled, artifacts like Messages, Orchestrations, Pipelines, Maps or S...

In a pipeline component, some streams are not seekable: Improvements to the Archiver

A while back, I presented my Archiver Component. It archives messages as they enter a receive pipeline or right before they leave a send pipeline. It turns out that "DT" found a problem with th...

HTTP response split attacks, HttpWebRequest and the NET Framework 1.1 SP1

The .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 shipped recently and was pushed to Windows Update so you probably were already offered to download it. There is a package for Windows XP and or Windows Server 2003. This rel...

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