Winterdom

Here are some options I'm exploring for creating pipelines for testing. 1. Using default pipelines To use standard pipelines right now you need to reference Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines and do something like this: using Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines; // ... ReceivePipelineWrapper receivePipeline = PipelineFactory.CreateReceivePipeline(typeof(XMLReceive)); Not hard, but a bit inconvenient. Instead, I'm thinking of: ReceivePipelineWrapper...

Last year I wrote the initial version of my PipelineTesting library, a wrapper library that makes it possible to automate testing of BizTalk Server 2006 pipelines and pipeline components. Since then, I've used the library successfully on several projects and I'm extremely happy I spent the time creating it, as it has...

There are things that I dislike about Windows Vista, but also quite a few things that I like. Unfortunately, for the past couple of months I've been having what I consider a "deal-breaker" problem with Vista on my main Dell Latitude D820 laptop. A few weeks ago, it started happening:...

Here's another Visual Studio 2005 color scheme: Garden of Eden. Code: </p> Xml: </p> </p> This one is based around greenish (teal) colors, and though funky, it is quite usable. Enjoy! Download Consolas_GardenOfEden.zip </p> Update: Download the Visual Studio 2008 version here. </p> Technorati tags: Visual Studio, Color Scheme </p>...

BizTalk Server 2006 comes with a library called Microsoft.BizTalk.Operations that allows you to do common operational queries on the BizTalk message boxes and tracking databases. The concept is very cool and it is something very needed for a product like BizTalk; particularly since the WMI-based API wasn't fully updated in...

Just a little something I was fooling with tonight: Technorati tags: Visual Studio

Windows Workflow Foundation creates workflow instances either from CLR Types describing the workflow, or from an XmlReader that provides the Workflow description in XAML. In either case, I've always viewed the entire workflow definition + creation as a variation of the prototype pattern. It's a loose interpretation, of course, but...

The BizTalk Adapter Framework handles a lot of the configuration baggage for adapters automatically using property grids and an annotated XSD schema provided by the adapter management classes. Besides this, the framework allows the developer to customize how a configuration property is edited in the property grid by including annotations in...

Scott Bellware discusses some interesting things here regarding transactions and extensibility hooks and even considering Ruby on Rails as a web front end. I'll ignore the Ruby thing, but I do want to talk about his comments on transactions and workflows. If I understand right, Scott is basically providing a...

I'm putting this one here just in case I forget about it again: BizTalk Server 2006 introduced a very nice feature called Failed Message Routing. This is usually enabled on Receive Ports to allow the developer to handle failed inbound messages through BizTalk itself, as it allows the failed message to...