June 2005 - Posts

Sun buys SeeBeyond
28 June 05 02:53 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   

Always wise to keep track of what's going on in the application integration space ... Sun To Buy SeeBeyond For $387 Million . Read More...

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SQL Updategrams (Insert/Update/Delete) in BizTalk: Part II
28 June 05 02:33 PM | rseroter | 12 Comments   

Yesterday (see Part I ) we looked at the first part of a BizTalk and SQL Server updategram project. The process will enable a single updategram to process inserts, updates AND deletes in one transaction. We've already set up a base project that contained Read More...

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SQL Updategrams (Insert/Update/Delete) in BizTalk: Part I
27 June 05 04:22 PM | rseroter | 3 Comments   

BizTalk natively supports using SQL Server updategrams to do inserts, updates and deletes. There are a few examples online of folks demonstrating ways to insert into multiple tables within a single updategram. What I want to show is how to update one Read More...

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Favorite New Things In Commerce Server 2006
24 June 05 07:16 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   

We're starting to release more information on the upcoming Commerce Server 2006 release, and three of my favorite new things are: BizTalk Adapters. We're providing out-of-the-box adapters to the Order, Catalog, Inventory and Profile subsystems. You'll Read More...

Filed under: BizTalk, Commerce Server

Initial Config Steps Upon Creating New BizTalk Projects
22 June 05 12:01 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   

Just a reminder ... whenever you create a new BizTalk project, it's wise to immediately do the following things in the Project Properties window: Change the Deployment server to "." so that you aren't burying your machine name in the project properties Read More...

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Applying InfoPath SP1 Security Tweak
20 June 05 09:15 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   

So obviously you would never do the following in a "real" environment unless you were sure of the ramifications, but I was recently building InfoPath (SP1) forms to use with a SharePoint and BizTalk demo when I got the following error trying to either Read More...

Filed under: BizTalk, Other

Commerce Server Chats
13 June 05 10:29 AM | rseroter | 1 Comments   

Just in case you're a closet Commerce Server fan, don't forget to check out the monthly chats that get fired up on MSDN. The June transcript is a bit sparse, but both May and April have some pretty good questions and comments. A couple notes on Commerce Read More...

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Interesting Post on XMLA for BizTalk
12 June 05 06:29 PM | rseroter | 1 Comments   

Check out this interesting read on using XML for Analysis (XMLA) to query the standard OLAP cubes created by BizTalk. Of course you could also use this to query the custom Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) cubes that get generated. Read More...

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Recent BizTalk Webcasts Available
10 June 05 12:53 AM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   

I often find it challenging to keep up with the 82,400 webcasts we seem to do each week, so here are some recent BizTalk ones you may have missed ... Implementing a Business Rules Engine Solution Using BizTalk Server 2004 Using the BizTalk Business Rules Read More...

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New Professional Graphics Software From Microsoft
10 June 05 12:24 AM | rseroter | 1 Comments   

So like most developers, I pretend to also do graphics somewhat competently. I've used Photoshop, spent a lot of time with the latest Corel Suite. Just recently, Microsoft released their foray into the space with a beta product code-named Acrylic . It's Read More...

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Tracking Business Rules Called Outside of BizTalk
09 June 05 01:18 PM | rseroter | 4 Comments   

So I’m a big of the Business Rules Engine that ships with BizTalk Server. When you call into the rules engine from a BizTalk Orchestration using the “Call Rules” shape, you are able to track all the details of rule execution in the BizTalk Health and Read More...

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RSS for BPI Products
08 June 05 03:27 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   

Just in case you don't have these in your RSS aggregator of choice, here are the links to the MS Knowledge Base feeds for both BizTalk and Commerce Server ... BizTalk KB feed - http://search.support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=1444&ln=en-us Read More...

Filed under: BizTalk, Commerce Server

Getting rolling ...
08 June 05 02:50 PM | rseroter | 1 Comments   

Greetings. I expect to use this space to discuss best practices, tips, code, product roadmaps and more around BizTalk Server , HIS , and Commerce Server. I've been working with BizTalk Server since the beta of BizTalk Server 2000 nearly five years ago Read More...

Filed under: BizTalk, Commerce Server, Host Integration Server, General .NET, Other