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Chris Romp

Microsoft Technology Specialist for BizTalk, SOA and Process Platform in Northern California

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Muenchian Grouping and Sorting in BizTalk Maps
First, I'll admit the title of this post isn't entirely accurate, because you can't do the grouping and sorting I'm about to show using the BizTalk mapper.  We'll be overriding the XSLT for a BizTalk map, so therefore it might be more appropriate Read More...
BizTalk Self-Study
It seems I keep putting this list together again and again, so I think it deserves a "home" of its own.  I'll try to keep it up to date. If you're a developer who would like to learn about developing applications on BizTalk Server, but Read More...
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide
The BizTalk Customer Advisory Team and BizTalk UE team are pleased to announce the first edition of the “ Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide ”. The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide is the third installment in a series Read More...
SF Bay Area Connected Systems
San Francisco Bay Area Connected Systems User Group On June 26, 2008, please join us for the next scheduled Microsoft Bay Area Connected Systems Division User Group meeting. This month’s topic will be “Patterns for Delivering Enterprise Class Services”. Read More...
Reading Data from XML Strings in BizTalk Server
Recently I was working with a customer and giving a quick overview of how to retrieve data from SQL Server within BizTalk. We had a stored procedure that would return the first "unfetched" row, lock the record, set the "fetchstatus" and return the data Read More...
BizTalk Server 2006 R3
A number of you (my customers) have asked about the support of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and the 2008 wave of products (Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio). Most of us expected a service pack release of some sort to update BizTalk to support these Read More...
Using WMI to Monitor Send Ports and Receive Locations in BizTalk Server
The question has come up more than a couple of times: How do I monitor my Send Ports or Receive Locations if I don't have MOM (or monitoring solution of your choice) configured for my BizTalk servers?  I've always been positive the answer was in Read More...
BizTalk Operations Guide
God help you if you rely on my blog as your only source of BizTalk information. =) I'm a bit behind, but here's something everyone should know about: The BizTalk Server Operations Guide . Check it out. The idea for the guide originated with Microsoft Read More...
Using BizTalk vs. Rolling Your Own
A customer and former coworker of mine recently sent me a link to this blog post , whose author asks the question "When to use BizTalk vs. roll your own solution." Good question! BizTalk Server allows developers to quickly develop loosely-coupled, services-oriented Read More...
LA Connected Systems Group Thursday
To all three of you who read this blog (hi, mom!), if you're in the Los Angeles area tomorrow night Brian Loesgen of Neudesic and I will be presenting on BizTalk Development Best Practices at the Los Angeles Connected Systems User Group .  This is Read More...
BizTalk Hotrod Volume 3
BizTalk Hotrod just published a third volume.  This one has fixed a lot of the readability problems with past issues (good luck reading sample code in volumes 1 and 2). =) Grab it from BizTalkHotrod.com or you can grab the 18MB PDF from this direct Read More...
ESB Guidance for BizTalk Server 2006 R2
The ESB Guidance for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has been released and is now available here on the Patterns & Practices web site. The ESB Guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns & practices, and a set of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and .NET Read More...
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Available on MSDN
Those of you with MSDN subscriptions can now get your hands on BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Developer Edition. Start your downloads! Technorati tags: BizTalk Read More...
ESB Guidance August 2007 (CTP3) Release
The third CTP release of the ESB Guidance has been posted to CodePlex. From Marty Wasznicky's email, some of the new features include: New Resolver and Adapter Provider Framework provides messaging-level and end point resolution for: UDDI WS-MetaDataExchange Read More...
SQL 2000 End of Life and BizTalk Server 2004
Recently I've noticed that Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of mainstream support for SQL Server 2000, effective April 8, 2008 (assuming you're on SP4). So, what does this mean for customers running BizTalk Server 2004, since BizTalk 2004 only Read More...
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