When applications / systems integrate with BizTalk via published WCF-based web services I often promote the idea that messages received by this web service should be validated before the sender of the message receives an acknowledgement that message was successfully delivered.  Where a message fails validation I would also like to be able to return the reasons why validation failed.  Implementing validation is fairly simple within BizTalk, but returning all the reasons why validation failed is slightly more complex.

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The MS Technical Editors responsible for the BizTalk posters have recently updated some of the posters for BizTalk 2009.  Check them out at the following URLs: · BizTalk Server 2009 Scale-out Configurations Poster · BizTalk Server 2009 Database Infrastructure...

In a recent internal discussion I was enlightened to the fact that there is a BizTalk Server 2006 R2 certification exam available.  This exam is available at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exams/70-241.aspx , so get going and be one of the...

After a very valuable and interesting TAP (Technology Adoption Program) process, a public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 is now available at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218 . In unison, the CTP of the ESB Guidance Toolkit v2 is...

David Chappell is both a technologist and an amazing wordsmith.  In his most recent whitepaper, titled A First Look at WF 4.0, “Dublin”, and “Oslo” , he does an amazing job of detailing the new release of WF, and the new “Dublin” and “Oslo” technologies...

Quite a while back I posted what was to be the first in a series of BizTalk Scenarios that could be used as a practical learning aid.  I was hoping to have the solution for this scenario uploaded within a month of that post, but alas it was not to...

The guys from K2 have provided some more detail on what they will be showing us during the User Group meeting on Wednesday: Home Improvement Retailer – Integrated Sales Order Solution. Charles (Sales Officer) creates a new sales order. Customer...

There is plenty of information on the Net relating to being able to send an HTML email from BizTalk using a dynamic SMTP port and an orchestration (see here and here ).  At a client I needed to achieve the same objective, but without the use of an...

Some very interesting news around BizTalk today.  Not only was there the announcement around BizTalk's future on the BizTalk Server Roadmap page, but there was a Q&A session with Oliver Sharp , the General Manager for the Connected Systems Division...

Anyone who has worked with the ESB Guidance Toolkit will tell you that the complex and troublesome installation of the toolkit is one of the most common reasons for the toolkit not getting wider coverage and usage.  The next release of the toolkit...