Blog Post: Unable to assign context properties to a BizTalk message until all...
Some colleagues of mine called me over for some advice on a problem they were having in a BizTalk orchestration the other day. They were using a message assignment shape to set the bodies and context...
View ArticleBlog Post: The document type does not match any of the given schemas –...
I’ve been working on a BizTalk solution which includes a scenario in which I am receiving envelope messages that are to be debatched in a receive pipeline using an XML Disassembler pipeline component,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Setting Up BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP in an Azure Virtual Machine using...
BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP is now publicly available as a template inside the Azure Virtual Machine Gallery. BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP supports Windows 8, Windows 8 Server, SQL 2012, and Visual Studio 2012 (this...
View ArticleBlog Post: Developing BizTalk 2010 R2 with Visual Studio 2011??
Since a couple of days Microsoft enabled Windows Azure users to create Virtual Machines, which are based on BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP. This is great, because it offers those users to have a preview at that...
View ArticleBlog Post: Go from No Azure to BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP in Less Than 30 Minutes Video
Are you experienced with Microsoft Azure? Have you tried the Free 90-Day trial? Have you activated the Virtual Machine Preview Feature? Are you up and running with BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP in an...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk360 continues to evolve: The fifth release in Beta
Monitoring is essential to keep your BizTalk environments healthy and running smoothly. With monitoring you have a couple of options. Either using System Center Operation Manager, a combination of SCOM...
View ArticleBlog Post: New version of BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack available...
I just release a new version of “BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack” project (available on CodePlex and Code Gallery) with a new set of functoids for BizTalk Server 2010 (I will soon publish for...
View ArticleBlog Post: EAI Bridge Message Sender and Queue Message Receive tool
In the last couple of months I’ve been busy participating in several national and international events talking about Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI services, or as we now know: BizTalk as PaaS (BizTalk on...
View ArticleBlog Post: Retrieving AppFabric Cache Statistics through code
This post explains you on how to retrieve the AppFabric Cache Statistics by using c# so you can leverage them within your .NET application.
View ArticleBlog Post: Creating my first Hello World cloud solution
I was very happy with the news that recently Windows Azure was available in my region which I was waiting for. So this would be my first cloud solution which I would deploy in the cloud. To start with...
View ArticleBlog Post: Publishing Windows Azure Solutions from VS2012
I will publish the MVC 4 solution which we created in the previous post to the Windows Azure. You should have a Windows Azure account from http://www.windowsazure.com. Once you have got your account...
View ArticleBlog Post: Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection...
This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. (96b4829e-3000-4937-a461-d18acb0df105 – 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)The post Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection...
View ArticleBlog Post: Win 2012: Getting WebFolders or WebClient to work
Firing up Win2012 Server for the first time you might notice that you can do a ‘net use * http://mywebsite/docs ’> Which is a classic thing we do in SharePoint or other WebDAV enabled Servers....
View ArticleBlog Post: Running a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Locally with Hyper-V or...
This is a follow-up to my post and video on Creating a BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP Virtual Machine in Windows Azure. I hope most of you have reviewed my earlier posts on Creating a Windows Azure Virtual...
View ArticleBlog Post: Packt MCTS BizTalk certification e-copy winners
This is a follow-up post to the Win a e-copy of the Packt MCTS BizTalk certification book post. Thank-you to all that entered. I enjoyed reading why you were interested in pursuing certification. The...
View ArticleBlog Post: Schema item missing from Visual Studio BizTalk Project items
This week I encountered a curious situation while I was developing a new BizTalk solution. After creating my new project, I tried to add a new schema to the solution, and to my astonishment, the item...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Virtual Machine in Windows Azure using Quick Create
Fellow BizTalk MVP Stephen W. Thomas has created two excellent posts on setting up a BizTalk Server 2010 CTP in Azure:Setting Up BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP in an Azure Virtual Machine using the GalleryRunning...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Community series: Introducing Sandro Pereira
One of the benefits of my job and role as MVP is that I have the opportunity to meet a lot of BizTalk community members, MVP’s and Microsoft professionals around the world. Some of them became good...
View ArticleBlog Post: Migrating your blog from any BlogML based platform to WordPress
First I need to apologies to my readers for couple of things. One you might have noticed lot of updates recently in your readers with old posts, that’s mainly due to the migration process and second...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Virtual Machine in Windows Azure using Quick Create–Part II
In my previous post I discussed ways to setup a BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP Virtual Machine in Azure. The post demonstrates how a VM with the BizTalk Server 2010 R2 is provisioned using CREATE CREATE....
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