biztalk

Zombies in BizTalk

Hi guys, I have a BizTalk 2006 R2 application that works perfectly. It receives the messages, processes them and sends correct responses. But although the everything is correct (the messages are successfully picked up by the orchestrations and the response is sent without errors), BizTalk still generates a "Message not consumed" error ...

BizUnit vs Visual Studio Team Test

With the release of BizTalk 2009 we can now use Visual Studio Team Edition 2008 to leverage some of the team test features. We can unit test maps, schemas, and pipelines ... but from what I can tell, that's about it. How would you unit test orchestrations for instance? Well I have been using BizUnit for years already and plan to contin...

Creating a custom SOAP adapter for BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0

Using the BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 We are working on a project where we need to call a proxy to a web service which is a DLL. We have no problems doing this via an orchestration since you can use a static port and configure it to use the SOAP adapter with the web service setting pointing at the assembly in the BizTalk Admin interface. In...

Ordered delivery send port leaves a running instance in BizTalk

I have a MSMQ send port in BizTalk that is configured to send messages using ordered delivery. When the port has sent a batch of messages it leaves an instance of the port as an active running instance. I still receive the correct files in the correct order but I have to manually terminate the used port instance. If I send new files it...

Consume WCF service with same name and same target namespace from BizTalk

I have a WCF service service scenario like this namespace Company.BO.Contracts { public interface ITypeService { } public partial interface IType1Services : ITypeService { [OperationContract()] Type1 GetType1(System.Int32 idValue); [OperationContract()] Type1 Save(Type1 myType1, System.Int32 changeUser); } public partial in...

What are options of connecting to RMS files on Openvms using BizTalk or SSIS?

Are there any interfaces provided by OpenVMS? ODBC? WebService? Attunity adapters are ruled out due to Cost. Any pointers would be useful.. Thanks paritosh ...

BizTalk mapping, nested collections of elements, help needed

Hi I have a schema that contains the details for an order. Within the schema, I have a collection of line items containing details of each item within the order. Schema is similar to the following structure. Order SaleItems SaleItem OrderID Price Quantity etc. I have a requ...

Strongly typed ASMX versus WCF

I need some direction related to this topic; maybe I am missing the obvious. I dont see a contrast between WCF bound to HTTP and strongly typed web service. Why would this be any different?? I agree there are some development nuances especially related to XmlSerializer in ASMX vs WCF and a plethora of Microsoft jargons. Short of these;...

FaultException handling in BizTalk

The FaultContract from my WCF service doesn't have a datacontract members; thus when the service is consumed in BizTalk, the generated schema doesn't show up any members. How do I handle in BizTalk? While consuming this WCF service from a .NET client, the implementation provides the exception along with Class library ( of data objects) ...

How can BizTalk 2006 R2 consume the serialized response of a WCF service with PreserveObjectReferences = true?

We have an existing .net 3.5 WCF service with which PreserveObjectReferences is set to true on the server side. When PreserveObjectReferences is set to false BizTalk can consume the response. Is there a way to get BizTalk to consume the PreserveObjectReferences response payloads... PreserveObjectReferences manifests itself with a z:id...

BizTalk 2006 Tracking Database Won't Shrink - Why?

I am running a BizTalk 2006 server instance on a SQL 2000 SP4 Database. I have a 10 GB Tracking DDB (9GB Used / 1GB Free). I am running the DTADB Archive & Purge jobs every hour. It is purging messages at 10 Days / 14 Days Hard. It runs without error. I take the purging down to 5 Days / 9 Days Hard and the Tracking Database's size o...

BizTalk 2009: Communication with all MessageBoxes has now been re-established

have installed BizTalk 2009 on the following environment: Windows 2008 server SQL Server 2008 IIS 7 Visual Studio 2008 I have also installed ESB toolkit 2.0. The BizTalk applications generally work, except the event log all the time shows this as "information": "Communication with all MessageBoxes has now been re-established" No e...

Exceptions from scripting within Biztalk Map

I have a biztalk (2006 R2) map which uses an class to provide for some custom logic that we couldn't achieve neatly through the existing functoids. When an exception is thrown from one of the methods of this class the exception detail is, unfortunately lost (at least as far as I can see), The transform shape simply throws an exception i...

BizTalk sequential file name

Hi, I need to have the file in send port (type File) with sequential number. The format should be i.e. Order_%OrderId%_%Sequence%.xml. Sequnce will be from 1 to ... Only solution I can see is to create table in database which will contain last number for each sequence, in orchestration I'll get the number, concatenate it with the prefix...

Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.ServiceCreationException : Failed while creating a ABC service

After deploying a set of services on QA environemnt, one orchestration is suspended with message Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.ServiceCreationException : Failed while creating a ABC service. In windows event log, I found: Object of type 'XYZ.Schemas_BFX_v01' cannot be converted to type 'XYZ.Schemas_BFX_v01'. any clue what causing this except...

BizTalk MQSC adaper configuration error

Hi Guys, I'm having trouble configuring the MSQC adapter for BizTalk Server 2006. At the moment i'm getting the following error when setting up a receive location or send port: The adapter "MQSC" raised an error message. Details "The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E) A dependency could not be fou...

Biztalk Developer pre-screening test and interview questions

Similar to other interview question threads, we're preparing to interview candidates for a Biztalk/.NET Webservices/XML/general mid-tier developer position, and I'm looking for some good input from the community. We'd like to pre-screen the applicants (since they'll come from a tech agency) with a written test that covers basic knowledge...

Files deployed all over my Biztalk servers, in each user's "Project Folder"

When I deploy applications to our biztalk server, we deploy to a test machine, add all the necessary resources, and then export an MSI that we import on our production servers (we have two). The other day, I noticed that there are dozens of folders on our production servers that appear to be copies of each developer's source code locatio...

What are license terms for Biztalk Server 2009 Developer Edition?

Where can I find the license terms for Microsoft Biztalk Server? (especially the Developer license). I've found the pricing and licensing page, which links to a FAQ - but I can't find the actual legal document anywhere (i.e. the actual license terms). The closest is a 100+ page document of "user rights" - but it is only the changes from...

BizTalk - The app is neither deleting nor letting me to deploy

Something went wrong with my BizTalk applications; I am unable to delete them and at the same time unable to deploy the latest from studio. I am working with BizTalk 2009. The error being displayed on Studio - a referenced BizTalk project is being in use by other process and thus is unable to update it; my host instance and the applicat...