Moving to the .net paradigm a decade ago, the JIT compiler has always been a nasty part of most of us developing the ASP.Net applications. I cannot recollect how many times I have wished that I was able to provide exactly the same experience to the first...

Recently, I had to talk to a customer of mine explaining setting up of optimal BizTalk infrastructure. It was almost a 101 conversation regarding BizTalk Availability, Scalability and Disaster Recovery. That's when I realized that there is not really...

When working with a BizTalk solution, I ran into these issues a lot of times. The orchestrations in the referenced BizTalk project may show compiler warnings. The changes that are made to the referenced BizTalk project are not propagated on to the...

So here is what happened. On a 64 bit Windows 2008 server, I got the required BizTalk & Visual Studio components installed and configured along with ESB pre-requisites. Once done with the ESB Toolkit configuration, I started with creating a sample...

BizTalk provides an out of the box job that can be configured to archive and purge BizTalk databases. But sometimes you might be in a situation where archival not necessary and you might as well save that time and simply purge the tracking data. If...

When connecting to a network file share using BizTalk File adapter, you might've noticed that just specifying "Modify" rights is not sufficient. In simple configuration terms, you would need to have a minimum of "Full Control" or the BizTalk Host Service...

Recently, I faced some of the issues below when configuring BizTalk Disaster Recovery at one of my customers. The BizTalk solution was implemented on HyperV and since earlier clustering was not supported for SQL 2005 (BTW, it is supported now), we had...

Another amazing feature that IE 8 has pulled out of the hat is – the Web Slices. Today, a very common way of keeping the visitors updated about what's happening on your website is using the RSS. However, maintaining these feeds usually require the websites...

OK. So there has already been a lot of buzz about the amazing features that IE 8 now has to offer for the ultimate browsing experience. There are some articles out there which go ga-ga over the awesome feature set and then there are others who say that...

Most of the Windows machines use the automatic updates to install the latest updates from Microsoft. Recently, we ran into an issue where the Biztalk configuration started failing on one of the servers. Having to investigate if this was caused by a patch...

There is a new bloggers guide recently published by Alan Smith . This guide provides a good overview of the next wave of the connected systems technologies. It starts with the WCF & WF 4.0 and makes its way to the Biztalk 2009, Oslo, Dublin and finally...

I had earlier compiled this list for BizTalk 2006 pre-requisites CAB files here . Now that we have BizTalk 2006 R2, it needs a complete separate list of pre-requisites. The CAB files for 2006 dont work with 2006 R2. So here is a list of those for R2 ...

In a landmark decision for the Indian telecom industry, the Department of Telecom has decided to introduce wireless Number Portability in India. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mobile_numbers_get_mobile/articleshow/2536732.cms It will be definitely...

One of the things that I was working on in last couple of months was to do with Internet Explorer. One of the things was to explore what are the different ways in which I can host a web page within my windows app. But still interesting was the part that...

Well, just if some of you are wondering about what happened to the mere insignificant mortal who used to vent his rants in this space, let me tell you, I am still very much alive and kicking. Yeah I haven't been really active writing the stuff that I...

BizTalk 2006 allows some really good interacting with webservices. If it is a simple webservice, we can very well consume it by adding a reference to it and then consuming it using the orchestrations. Here are some interesting scenarios that I encountered...

I am currently working on one of the Biztalk projects that contains a lot of lengthy orchestrations. In order to split them in manageable chunks, we are making intensive use of the call orchestration and start orchestration shapes. As long as the orchestrations...

Biztalk 2006 provides the btstask utility to carry out most of the deployment operations from command prompt. However, the help available at the command prompt does not talk anything about adding environment specific binding files. You can get elaborate...

I just love what technology has done to our lives. I had never in my life thought that I would be able to read "Alice in Wonderland" the original version of Lewis Carol in his own writing. Microsoft has just launched a version of the Turn the Pages...

The BizTalk Core Engine Team has compiled an excellent list of things that you can or cannot do on your BizTalk Message Box SQL Server . I am sure this will be the most sought after thing by all the database administrators trying to "maintain" the Biztalk...

When developing Biztalk applications that are exposed as webservices, it becomes quite a tedious job to expose them as webservices everytime there is a change in the orchestration. Even though Visual Studio integrates the BizTalk Web Service Publishing...

This, to me, seems a rare scenario that you might encounter. But if you are using the "ReDeploy" feature in the Biztalk project (from Visual Studio) you might bump into this sometimes. When debugging your orchestration with HAT, you might encounter some...

Amit Agrawal & Sathish CG, the Commerce experts from MGSI, have recently started blogging. Now, you can find them posting some cool Commerce Server related stuff on their blogs. Amit Agrawal - http://blogs.msdn.com/amitag Sathish CG - http://blogs...

Most of the times, when you encounter an error interacting with Commerce Server Profiles Adapter, the Adapter will give you back an error with a proper description of what might've went wrong. However, there are certain cases when the adapter simply emits...

When dealing with Commerce Server integration with BizTalk 2006, one of the requirements that I faced was to create multiple credit cards for a single profile and then link all those credit cards to that profile. To achieve this, is a two step process...