The Enterprise Integration Space

[ This blog post follows up from my other blog post Coming Soon!–Tutorial on Integrating BizTalk Server 2013 with Salesforce . ] We have now released an update to the BizTalk Server 2013 Help to include a new tutorial that demonstrates how to integrate...

This week, Windows Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS) was made generally available to the customers. You can look at some blog posts related to this announcement here and here . As part of this, BizTalk Server 2013 (RTM) VM images were also pushed live...

BizTalk Server 2013 introduces few new adapters that enable out-of-the-box connectivity with endpoints on Azure. One such adapter is WCF-BasicHttpRelay adapter, which can be used to send and receive messages from a Service Bus relay endpoint. This adapter...

With BizTalk Server 2013 we wanted to adopt a documentation strategy of having the docs mostly available over the web and not packaged as part of the product. This has various benefits but is driven mostly by the fact that users look for information mostly...

It’s finally about to arrive. The new WCF-BasicHttpRelay adapter in BizTalk Server 2013 makes it really easy to integrate BizTalk Server with Salesforce. The scenario that I am working on documenting involves getting an opportunity notification from Salesforce...

In this blog series, I’ll try to go through the new features introduced in BizTalk Server 2013. I’ll start with Dependency Tracking . A BizTalk Server application may contain a bunch of artifacts such as send ports, receive locations, orchestrations,...

While working with Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs, both as part of the Enterprise Application Integration project as well as the TPM Portal, we come across a couple of properties that are by default promoted on any given message. These two properties are...

In this post, I am going to list down the key new features introduced in BizTalk Server 2013 Beta and also provide some useful links that describe how to use those features. But, to start with, this is where you can download the Beta bits for BizTalk...

I am reaching out to the BizTalk community to come up with a list a scenarios that you want to be documented as part of the official documentation from Microsoft. You can share with us scenarios that are: Hybrid – Scenarios that involve both BizTalk Server...

Exciting times !! After a gap of two years BizTalk Server is kicking back again, and it’s not just kicking, it’s roaring!! Through this blog, I attempt to put down a list of new features and updates that have been introduced in the CTP.  There are...

When we deploy a typical EAI Services project to the Service Bus, all the artifacts and the components included in the project get deployed to the Service Bus. So, what are these artifacts and components. The artifacts include the schemas and transforms...

A new tutorial is uploaded to MSDN that demonstrates how to send XML messages with different schemas to a request-reply XML bridge deployed on Windows Azure Service Bus. The tutorial is available at : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure...

When you install the Windows Azure EAI and EDI Labs SDK , it installs a Visual Studio project template called the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Project. You can use this project template to create integration solutions that can be deployed...

I have a new sample to share. This sample demonstrates how to send messages of different XML schemas to a request-reply EAI Bridge deployed on Windows Azure Service Bus. The bridge runs some processing logic, which is configured using the different stages...

This post is in continuation to the blog post yesterday announcing a sample on how to do a SQL Azure lookup using Service Bus EAI Bridges. The post is available here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nitinme/archive/2012/05/25/sample-using-service-bus-eai-bridges...

[ Link to the sample: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Using-EAI-Bridges-with-SQL-be2b5761 ] SQL Azure lookup is a very useful feature available with Service Bus EAI Bridges. Using this feature, a bridge can go ‘lookup’ a SQL Azure database table, pick...

In BizTalk one could use logical functoids, set it to a true value, and then attach it to an element in the destination schema. This would have created an empty node in the transformed message. This behavior is not there in the map available with Service...

Hi !! I am looking to document some real-world business scenarios for using the Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs. This could be a very basic scenario or a really complex one. I am game with either. Would you like to share your specific scenarios...

We are already aware of the BTM Migration Tool that was made available through CodePlex a while back. Just wanted to have some dough shared with folks that the migration tool. To start with, AFAIK, the current release of the tool is ‘not supported’. This...

Well, this is slightly old as I had created these videos probably last year in 2011. But it won’t harm to let you all know that it’s out there and you can watch them to understand how X12 messaging works in BizTalk Server 2010. Having said that, this...

I install Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs SDK and I open Visual Studio to start creating an integration solution. I can see two project templates available to me. One of those is EDI Project (artifacts). I open that and I see only transform and a couple...

Through this blog post, I am making an effort to collate some of the most common issues (and provide troubleshooting information) for issues one could face while using Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs bits. I call this a ‘living’ post because I am going to...

This sounds like a perfect end-to-end scenario. I have a flat-file message which I wanted to be written into my partners SQL Server database instance that resides behind the organization’s firewall. How do I accomplish this using the Azure Service Bus...

There are a bunch of new features that are added to this refresh. Let’s go through a summary of those. For ease of organization, lets organize the updates into categories – bridges, Service Bus Connect, Transforms, and EDI Portal Updates to Bridges FTP...

The April refresh of the Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs is now live. Here’s some dough that you would be interested in: Read the forum post about preparing to use the April refresh at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/servicebuslabs/thread...