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Introduction Microsoft Customer Care Framework (CCF) is used to integrate and automate line of business (LOB) applications. CCF uses two modules “Application Integration Framework (AIF)” and “Hosted Application Toolkit (HAT)” for this purpose. AIF...

Many times you don’t create message schema from scratch. Instead you try to generate schema using some existing DTD, XDR or even sample XML file. Recently, I was trying to generate schema using XDR and sample XML file and ran into small irritating problems...

(Article works with CRM Dynamics 3.0 and BizTalk Server 2004 onwards) BizTalk CRM adapter can be used to send or push data to CRM system from any other application system. For example, account data can be pushed to CRM server from commerce server....

Welcome to last article of this series. Today, we are going to talk about using some CRM specific field types such as “Lookup” and “Picklist”. We will also have little talk about using custom entities/attributes. “Lookup” field is used to link two...

We talked about create, delete, query and configuration details in previous articles. In current article, I am quickly going to summarize update operation with CRM system. I suggest you refer my previous articles before reading current one. This will...

In previous articles, we talked about – · Installing and configuring BizTalk CRM Adapter · Basics of CRM System · How to perform query operation using BizTalk adapter · How to perform create operation using BizTalk adapter I suggest you...

In previous part of the article, we had initial talks about integration between BizTalk and CRM using Dynamics CRM Adapter. We discussed – · Installing and configuring BizTalk CRM Adapter · Basics of CRM System · How to perform query operation...

Recently, I have been working on an integration project where few exiting systems were getting integrated with Microsoft CRM System 3.0. We architected to use BizTalk CRM adapter to synchronize and integrate data with CRM system. We could not locate a...

WSDL or service metadata is the core for accessing or using any web service. In ASMX web service, browsing WSDL is straight forward. You develop a web service, host inside IIS and then simply browse ASMX file to view WSDL. But things are not the same...

Exception handling in ASMX web services was a painful job. Information was getting lost over wire / serialization; it was tricky to get fault code back and having a strongly type mapping between service raised exception and client consumed exception was...

I saw lots of people talking about BizTalk build automation scripts and they are mostly curious about how MSBuild can help fix things. I thought of sharing potential and my experience of writing automated build script using MSBuild tasks. I am expecting...

I follow "BizTalk Technical Discussion" distribution list and I found mails bouncing around two very interesting topics - how to manage vocabularies in BizTalk rule engine for multi-policy development and how to create automated build scripts for BizTalk...

Pipelines contain fixed number of stages and stages contain variable number of components. There are two execution modes of the stages – “All” and “First Match”. In “All” execution mode, all components in the stage are executed one by one in sequence...

Sorry for delay guys, I am coming with remaining pipeline articles very soon. Meanwhile, here is an interesting and useful thing to share. During BizTalk map definition, sometime you might require to read some configuration value. For example, during...

In my current series, I am talking about developing custom pipeline components in detail. In part1, we talked about pipeline component types and about developing general pipeline component with example. I encourage you to refer part1 article to have a...

Receive and send pipelines in BizTalk are used to perform a range of processing and operations on messages. They can – 1. Encrypt and decrypt messages 2. Sign and verify digitally signed messages 3. Validate message against schema 4. Deal...

In current series, we have already gone through rule execution algorithm and effect of “Assert” and “Update” on rule execution cycle. If you wish to recap, please go through these articles again @ https://blogs.msdn.com/brajens/archive/2006/10/13...

Policies in BizTalk Rule Engine execute according to Match – Conflict Resolution – Action algorithm. Engine control functions influence rule execution cycle in big way. They cause execution cycle to recur more than once and also control action agenda...

BizTalk runtime can be divided into “Process” and “Data” area in larger terms. Orchestrations, receive handler, send handler etc. run under process area. Process area is popularly called “Host”. Host can be mapped to several BTS machine in BizTalk Server...

BizTalk business rule engine (BRE) is a wonderful tool to extend dynamics and flexibility of business. It allows business rules to be tailored on the fly with no hazards and downtime. In BRE, you can define “Policy”. Policy contains “Rules” drafted...

In the communication and integration world message is core entity. It is principal data carrier. Applications and businesses trade information using messages. BizTalk is content based publish-subscribe engine which facilitates in enterprise application...

Business is dynamic. Policies, rules, constraints are never stable and they amend/evolve with time. Processes, applications and workflows supporting any business model need to implement these changes with minimal maintenance and adoption hazards....

Introduction: Pipelines in BizTalk are used to do specific processing on incoming and outgoing messages. Each pipeline has some stages in which stage specific components can be employed to do certain tasks. “Disassemble” is the second stage...

For a long time, automatic unit testing of BizTalk interfaces was a night mare and BizTalkers were desperately looking for a sophisticated tool. With BizUnit 2.0, BizTalk interface unit testing has become an easy and efficient job. Purpose of this article...