The Windows Azure Service Bus Community Technology Preview (CTP), which was released in May 2011, first introduced queues and topics. At that time, the Windows Azure Management Portal didn’t provide a user interface to administer, create and delete messaging...

Microsoft BizTalk Server enables organizations to connect and extend heterogeneous systems across the enterprise and with trading partners. The Service Bus is part of Windows Azure AppFabric and is designed to provide connectivity, queuing, and routing...

I want to recommend a book I reviewed this weekend: Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration . Written by 5 BizTalk Server experts Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration is a new book from Packt. It is a guide...

Introduction Some months ago I created a custom WCF protocol channel to transparently inject client-side caching capabilities into an existing WCF-enabled application just changing the its configuration file. Since I posted my first post on this subject...

Introduction WARNING Due to the breaking changes introduced by the production version of the Service Bus Messaging API with respect to the CTP version, this version of the Service Bus Explorer tool doesn’t compile against the API contained in the Windows...

Introduction Recently I had chance to work with a health care company that makes an extensive use of the BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 for processing a large amount of messages containing clinical and administrative information. Health care companies need...

Introduction A couple of months ago Yossi Dahan told me that one of his customers in the UK was searching for a solution to transparently cache the response messages resulting from a WCF call. I immediately thought that this design pattern could be implemented...

Introduction The Windows Azure platform provides storage services for different kinds of persistent and transient data: Unstructured binary and text data Binary and text messages Structured data In order to support these categories of data, Windows Azure...

The problem The setup of Windows Azure  AppFabric SDK adds the elements reported in the table below to the configuration contained in the the machine.config files under the following folders: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config %windir...

Introduction In the first article of the series we discussed how to exchange messages with an orchestration via a two-way WCF Receive Location using the Duplex Message Exchange Pattern . This form of bi-directional communication is characterized by the...

Introduction In the first article of the series we discussed how to exchange messages with an orchestration via a two-way WCF Receive Location using the Duplex Message Exchange Pattern . This form of bi-directional communication is characterized by the...

Introduction Some time ago, I was asked by a customer whether or not BizTalk WCF Adapters support the Duplex Message Exchange Pattern. The latter is characterized by the ability of both the service and the client to send messages to each other independently...

Scenario During recent years, I had the chance to work with many customers and I realized that one of the most recurring problems they usually experience is due to long start-up times: indeed, this is not a BizTalk specific issue, it’s rather...

Introduction   In the first article of the series, we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using Dynamic Send Ports in a BizTalk application and in particular within a solution that makes an extensive use of the ESB Toolkit. We also talked...

Introduction In the first part of the article we have introduced and analyzed the problem regarding the transmission and reception of a large message via a WCF Receive Location. In particular, we discussed the difference between the Buffered and Streamed...

Introduction In the first part of the article, we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of Dynamic Send Ports and we introduced two custom components that allow, respectively, to use Static Send Ports instead of Dynamic Send Port with an ESB Itinerary...

Introduction Recently I had chance to work with a couple of customers that make extensive use the ESB Toolkit (specifically, V 2.0 in this case) in their BizTalk solutions, and to exchange ideas with some of you regarding the alleged performance problems...

Below you can find a link to the video recording of the presentations that Mikael Håkanssons and Ewan Fairweather delivered at the meeting of the Swedish BizTalk User Group. Instrument your BizTalk Server Optimizing and verifying your BizTalk Server installation...

Introduction This is the first in a series of articles that will introduce and explore a couple a patterns to transfer and process large messages using WCF-Adapters. Generally speaking, an end to end BizTalk solution adopts the FTP Adapter or one of its...

I publish the following announcement by Packt Publishing as some of you might be interested in their promotions: Innovative and fast-growing IT publisher, Packt Publishing ( www.PacktPub.com ) has announced a series of giveaways and promotions, including...

Scenario Last year I wrote a post on how using BizTalk Server 2006 R2/2009 and Protocol Transition to impersonate the original caller when invoking a downstream service that uses the Windows Integrated Security. Recently, one customer posed the following...

Problem Statement Some of you posted the following feedback regarding my post How To Boost Message Transformations Using the XslCompiledTransform class : "Very nice post. I just have a question. How would you handle multiple input messages in a...

Text in Row Table Option in SQL Server In SQL Server, text , ntext , or image fields are large character or binary strings (up to 2 gigabytes) that by default stored outside a data row. The data row contains only a 16-byte text pointer that points to...

A couple of you experienced the following error: “Digest verification failed for Reference '#_0'” when using my component with the following configuration: Adapter: WCF-Custom Binding: WsHttpBinding or NetTcpBinding Security: Message ClientCredentialType...

Introduction The BizTalk Runtime still makes an extensive use of the System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform .  When you create and build a BizTalk project, a separate .NET class is generated. for each transformation map. Each of these classes inherits from...