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When applications / systems integrate with BizTalk via published WCF-based web services I often promote the idea that messages received by this web service should be validated before the sender of the message receives an acknowledgement that message was successfully delivered.  Where a message fails...

Because there are many customers still using the deprecated SOAP adapter i have decided to create this post in order to help them in this particular situation. Consider the following scenario: The orchestration has a subscription through the web port. There is a strong business requirement to validate...

There is plenty of information on the Net relating to being able to send an HTML email from BizTalk using a dynamic SMTP port and an orchestration (see here and here ).  At a client I needed to achieve the same objective, but without the use of an orchestration and with a static SMTP port. ...

The Issue Earlier this week Bennie Wentzel , a developer from a customer I was engaged with last year, posed me a question which went something like this: If I have a synchronous web service receive port, how can I return the result of a map on this receive port to the calling web service client...

In my previous post on the default behaviour of the XMLReceive pipeline with respect to validating a message against a schema I detailed the creation of what I termed the "XMLValidatingReceive Pipeline".  In response to this posting, Payal Arya emailed me the following question with respect...

The ability to rigidly define the content of a data field is an essential element in any structured data definition.  It is no surprise therefore one can define data constraints on elements and attributes in a schema through the means of various facets, such as enumerations, min length, regular...