xs:int and xs:integer, what’s the difference….
I am busy creating schema’s and exposing them as a web service. I always generate a client and try to post some messages and this time I was again surprised by BizTalk. (or should I say XML).When...
View ArticleXSLT Distinct another way to determine distinct in XSLT 1.0
I had a requirement to map a buyer only if it was the same buyer throughout the entire document.The reason for this was that in the source document the buyer was defined in a sub sub sub node of a...
View ArticleRemoving unwanted namespaces from a BizTalk Map
BizTalk is a great tool but sometimes the output is a little unreadable because of the number of namespaces in a document. This post is related to a previous post where I had to import a zillion...
View ArticleReally nice BizTalk Admin tool, BizTalk 360
Today I stumbled upon a really nice BizTalk admin tool. (thanks google reader)Have a look at it >>here<<It’s a kind of Silverlight BizTalk Administration console with quite a few...
View ArticleNtrace is available for Visual studio 2010
Ntrace is a great tool for logging. It has virtually no impact and is blazing fast. Finally it’s been migrated to Visual studio 2010.So now I can start building my BizTalk Bestpractice toolbox with it....
View ArticleI think this is a bug in the orchestration engine but I am not really sure.
Today I had a very weird problem. I submitted a message via a WCF webservice and had an orchestration listening on the messagebox for that particular messagetype.The orchestration does some serious...
View ArticleSomething you REALLY should know about dates ! (beeing Kind to DateTime.Kind)
Here we go, some important stuff about dates…..(it’s not only BizTalk related)I had a very simple scenario.Webservice Receives a request (with several datetime fields in it)Send the received message to...
View ArticleMULTILINE EXEC : BizTalk deployment (BTDF), or a gotcha in MSBUILD don’t know...
I use the BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) a lot for deployment of BizTalk solutions.BTDF is using MSBUILD tasks to deploy a assembly.Last week we found a problem with deployment of a specific...
View ArticleDifference in mapping between BizTalk 2010 and 2013
Difference in mapping 2010 versus 2013 Artifacts descriptionIn a BizTalk 2010 project we have a function that passes the current XmlNode as an XpathNodeIterator to a helper component. In BizTalk 2010...
View ArticleBizTalk just keeps retrying and never stops doing so
Yesterday we had some problems with a connection to an endpoint and it became clear the endpoint was less reliable as promised.When using a static sendport you would set RetryCount and RetryInterval...
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