I came across this behavior a few days back while investigating a bug.   Here’s what I had: Workflow: 1. Has a number of activities executing in sequence. None of the activities are of type AsyncCodeActivity, and none of the activities create Bookmarks...

Before your read further – please note that the technique mentioned here for scaling out dynamic send ports is UNSUPPORTED by the Product Team. I’ve gotten this to work based on my understanding of the BizTalk Management Database and Message Box Database...

Consider the following scenario: You have an adapter on a Receive Location, which submits a message in Format A into BizTalk. The Pipeline configured on this Receive Location converts the message into Format B. Assume that there is...

In BizTalk Server 2006 R2, when the WCF-Custom adapter was used with any binding, the WCF-Adapter would try to determine, at runtime, whether a System.Transactions TransactionScope was required when sending a message over a channel. This involved the...

Even though the WCF Federation bindings aren’t yet officially supported for use with the WCF Adapter, for most purposes, you can get your scenario to work (and in case your scenario does not work as expected, you should contact Microsoft Support so that...

We will kick off planning for the next release of BizTalk in a few weeks. I’m interested to hear what features / changes in the WCF Adapter you think would be beneficial to your scenarios. Please add your comments to this post describing your scenarios...

If you’ve used the WCF Adapter in BizTalk to communicate using one-way contracts with WCF Clients (by having a WCF Receive Location) or WCF Services (by having a WCF Send Port), you must have realized that the WCF Adapter cannot handle one-way contracts...

Suppose your BizTalk Maps are present in assemblies that are large (let’s say that 5 mb and above can be considered as large). You might run into the situation where the memory consumption of the BizTalk Host Instances executing such maps (either within...

When configuring a receive location using the WCF-Custom adapter, there is a textbox for specifying the endpoint address on the General tab of the configuration dialogs. There is however no field where you can specify values for the ListenUri and ListenUriMode...