I have been very busy working on the future of BizTalk. Currently, this is mostly attending meetings and writing prototypes. This has been exciting and has not left me much time to post here. Aside from this, I managed to find some time to setup my...

As many of you already know, your custom pipeline component can expose properties by implementing IPersitPropertyBag . You can then specify the value of these properties at design time, in Visual Studio .NET 2003 and when your component is initialized...

I have mentioned previously that many famous Japanese songs are used in commercials. Well, more than often, famous singers or otherwise known personalities record commercials. This is the case of Kaori Mochida , the lead singer of Every Little Thing ...

Regularly, in microsoft.public.biztalk newsgroups, folks would like to archive messages as they are received by BizTalk, before any further processing. There are numerous ways to achieve this and the most obvious ones (non exhaustive list): When the orchestration...

Ah, believe it or not, my mailbox fills up with requests for help! Oh, well. Today, some folks which I assume would like to remain anonymous are puzzled by a custom disassembling pipeline problem. Let's see if we can help them. Here is the e-mail I received...

I sometimes receive e-mails from BizTalk developers asking me to solve their specific problem. Recently, I received an e-mail from Nic asking about some flat file disassembling issues. This is great feedback, keep it coming guys! If you have a specific...

Part 1 Part 2 In part 1 , I pointed out that the FixMsg sample has some issues. I am sure you all understood what is wrong. What is wrong? When Read() is called the first time with count = 10 , the code did not yet run. We determine that we need to...

Part 1 Part 2 Last week, I was trying to help Matthew with his custom pipeline component (see this newsgroup thread ) . To make a long story short, Matthew started from the custom pipeline component provided with BizTalk 2004 SDK (it gets installed...

BizTalk server 2004 allows you to send and receive pretty much any kind of message. This is achieved by the combination of adapters and pipelines . In a nutshell, pipelines allow you to decode (or encode), disassemble (or assemble), Validate and Resolve...