Vikram has a very nice acticle on tracking in WF 4.0. Worth reading it at: http://blogs.msdn.com/endpoint/archive/2009/06/11/introduction-to-workflow-tracking-in-net-framework-4-0-beta1.aspx .

In the past, I have outlined some of the most famous J-POP artists: EXILE or DREAM . Today, let me introduce the (now defunct) Japanese band SweetS ( official web site in Japanese). Formed in 2003, the group experienced minor success before disbanding...

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 3.0 Unfortunately, if you create a WCF service and...

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

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 BizTalk 2004 even if the documentation gave subtle hints instead...

When using the BAM Portal Activity Search feature, you may be directed to an error page with the above error message. This error message means that there are instances with duplicate ID in the activity you were searching. If you look at the "Application...

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

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.dll into the same directory as Reflector (otherwise...

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 deployments. The primary use of this tool is to examine BizTalk...

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 allows the BAM Portal to retrieve BAM instance data without...

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 ran all tests under Virtual Server and never saw...

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 it true that I do like Japan and I have visited this gret...

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 "Contact" link to suggest topics you'd like me to...

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.

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 are many visualizers for various .NET types floating around...

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 activity instance: You can add / remove clauses using...

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 the CTP build you might have picked up at TechEd 2005. Keep...

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) features ... Staty tuned!

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

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: Current released versions of BizTalk (2000, 2002 ,2004...

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 through Microsoft Support. There are a few things that...

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 Application for instance), Save the solution...

Yet another frequently asked question. When using the BizTalk 2004 Administration Console, isolated hosts always report "Status unavailable" (see below). BizTalk Server 2004 offers two kind of hosts: In-Process Hosts and Isolated Hosts. In...

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 adjust the format of inbound messages to something that is suitable...

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 to answer that question and clarifies a few things...