Scenario During recent years, I had the chance to work with many customers and I realized that one of the most recurring problems they usually experience is due to long start-up times: indeed, this is not a BizTalk specific issue, it’s rather a problem affecting any .NET application, regardless...

Introduction In the first article of the series, we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using Dynamic Send Ports in a BizTalk application and in particular within a solution that makes an extensive use of the ESB Toolkit. We also talked about how to create custom services to boost the...

Introduction In the first part of the article we have introduced and analyzed the problem regarding the transmission and reception of a large message via a WCF Receive Location. In particular, we discussed the difference between the Buffered and Streamed transfer modes provided by WCF and in particular...

Introduction This is the first in a series of articles that will introduce and explore a couple a patterns to transfer and process large messages using WCF-Adapters. Generally speaking, an end to end BizTalk solution adopts the FTP Adapter or one of its variations (SFTP/FTPS) when it needs to exchange...

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 with a map, but in another cases the orchestration...