Scenario Last year I wrote a post on how using BizTalk Server 2006 R2/2009 and Protocol Transition to impersonate the original caller when invoking a downstream service that uses the Windows Integrated Security. Recently, one customer posed the following...

Problem Statement Some of you posted the following feedback regarding my post How To Boost Message Transformations Using the XslCompiledTransform class : "Very nice post. I just have a question. How would you handle multiple input messages in a...

Text in Row Table Option in SQL Server In SQL Server, text , ntext , or image fields are large character or binary strings (up to 2 gigabytes) that by default stored outside a data row. The data row contains only a 16-byte text pointer that points...

Introduction The BizTalk Runtime still makes an extensive use of the System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform . When you create and build a BizTalk project, a separate .NET class is generated. for each transformation map. Each of these classes inherits from the...

Introduction In the following post I’ll explain in detail a demo that I presented at TechReady 9 and TechEd 2009 in Berlin. The Problem Consider the following scenario: Your BizTalk application receives an XML request message through...

Introduction The contents of the following post are taken from a presentation I created and delivered at TechReady 9 in July 2009 and replicated with Stephen Kaufman at Tech-Ed Europe 2009 . The ABC of WCF Windows Communication Foundation (WCF...

Introduction We all know that testing is very important for every kind of solution. However, testing and in particular performance testing is often neglected for time or budget reasons. One of the things that I have found when working with customers...

Introduction In the first part of the article we introduced and analyzed 4 different techniques to process an XLANGMessage within a business component invoked by an orchestration. In the second part we’ll compare these design patterns from a...

Introduction One of the most common scenarios in BizTalk applications is when an orchestration receives and processes an incoming XML document to produce a result message. Sometimes this latter can be generated just transforming the inbound message...

Introduction In general, a WCF Web Service can return two types of SOAP faults: typed and untyped SOAP faults. Typed Faults In order to throw a typed fault, a service operation must be decorated with a System.ServiceModel.FaultContractAttribute...

Scenario Consider the following scenario: You have to implement a BizTalk Server application that has to interact with one or more downstream systems. Request messages are submitted by a front-end application which authenticates callers using the...

Scenario Some months ago I had the chance to work with a customer who asked me a very interesting and tricky question: does BizTalk Server 2006 R2 support synchronous-to-asynchronous messaging only flows, without the need of an orchestration to couple...

Synopsis: Persistence Store extensibility to store and query metadata relating to workflow instances - useful to generate IT and Business Reports from Workflow Services hosted within Windows Server AppFabric - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver...