June 2005 - Posts

Fun with BAM and orchestration execution time
28 June 05 08:42 AM | dhtoran | 41 Comments   

Abstract : I’ve using BAM to measure execution time in some orchestrations. I cannot use HAT because I needed to do some calculations to rest waiting time of the external processes. It’s extremely easy. Things get funny when we needed to get more that Read More...

Calling A Receive Pipeline Inside an Orchestration in BizTalk 2006
17 June 05 02:35 AM | dhtoran | 0 Comments   

Impresive! from Steve W Thomas : For starter, why would you want to call a Receive Pipeline from within an Orchestration? I had to struggle for a bit to come up with a good reason… I can find it useful in debatching Scenarios that require mapping prior Read More...

Why (good) Xml is much better than plain text
14 June 05 04:57 AM | dhtoran | 8 Comments   

There are many reasons, sure, and probably there are also reasons why plain text files can be better, but I would like to remark just only one reason, just because I fighting with it right now: Xml is human readable Or at least, it should be. I’m dealing Read More...

Fun with ConfigFramework (updated)
08 June 05 05:10 AM | dhtoran | 1 Comments   

I've been playing around with a funny error message in ConfigFramework. It says " The Operation Completed Successfully ", but it's a Retry/Cancel message box, where you get looped until you press cancel... The details found in the log file talk about Read More...

Compiled BizTalk 2004 Help File (.chm), indexed with MSN Desktop Search
07 June 05 09:11 AM | dhtoran | 2 Comments   

Marty Wasznicky has posted a compiled BizTalk 2004 Help File (.chm) check it out in his blog (11 Mb) The most interesting stuff is that it can be indexed using MSN Desktop Search (as any other .chm file).... that means querying BizTalk Documentation from Read More...

New whitepaper about BizTalk Messaging Internals
07 June 05 04:07 AM | dhtoran | 1 Comments   

There is a new whitepaper on MSDN about messaging. It's called BizTalk Server 2004: A Messaging Engine Overview , but it's quite a deep dive into messaging. From my point of view, the most interesting stuff is how it explains the Pub/Sub internals in Read More...

BizTalk messages based on .NET types instead of Xsd schemas
01 June 05 03:59 AM | dhtoran | 6 Comments   

Abstract : You can create a BizTalk message from a custom .NET class, instead of using an Xsd schema. This practice has some pros and cons. Let’s see… Usually, the most common process is to start creating Xsd schemas, and use them in Orchestrations, to Read More...