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MSMQ Label Property and WCF
The label property of an MSMQ message has been used for many things. Developers still use the label...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 12/18/2007
Finding the latest written document in a directory
I am working on a BizTalk test system within TFS for a client. They are sending the output messages...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 12/11/2007
BizTalk Mapping Design Template
I visit a lot of customers and I hear many of the same questions. One of the most common at the...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 12/10/2007
I will be speaking at TechEd EMEA's IT Forum
I am very excited that I will be presenting at TechEd EMEA this year. I am presenting on Monitoring...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 10/26/2007
Processing FIFO MSMQ Messages using WCF
I have been having fun working on the middle tier of an application which is using BizTalk, Windows...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 09/16/2007
Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting - July 19th, 2007
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday July 19th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk User...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 07/18/2007
I will be speaking at TechEd 2007
I am very excited that I will be presenting at TechEd this year. I am presenting on Monitoring...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 05/20/2007
Mapping from multiple source document with a key
In my last blog post I said that when I found more scenarios that required custom XSLT I would blog...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 05/09/2007
XSLT and a Commerce Server Catalog Query
I am becoming more and more convinced that you need to have good XSLT skills to work with the...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 05/08/2007
Querying Commerce Server with Commerce Servers' BizTalk Adapters
I am working on a large project where we need to query Commerce Server to create data feeds to send...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 04/21/2007
Comparing the Workflow Rules Engine to the BizTalk Business Rules Engine
Back in November I delivered a presentation to the Twin Cities BizTalk User Group titled 'Rule...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/21/2007
Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Website
The Twin Cities BizTalk User Group website is up and running (it actually has been for a while - I...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/12/2007
Twin Cites BizTalk User Group Meeting - March15th, 2007
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 15th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/12/2007
Twin Cites BizTalk User Group Meeting - November 16th, 2006
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday November 16th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 11/10/2006
Using the WF rules to iterate over a collection
I thought I understood how the WF Rules iterated over a collection. Isn't that always how it goes -...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 11/08/2006
Twin Cites BizTalk User Group Meeting - September 21st, 2006
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday September 21st please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 09/18/2006
Tracking Rules Execution in Windows Workflow
In my previous blog entry on Tracking and the TrackingExtract functionality I talked about the...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 09/15/2006
WF Custom Activities and the ToolboxBitmap attribute
Ok, so this isn't just limited to Windows Workflow. It is relevant to any piece of code that will...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 08/30/2006
Windows Workflow Tracking and the TrackingExtract functionality
New Page 1 I was writing a custom tracking service for the Windows Workflow engine for my client...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 08/22/2006
Programmatically Create Windows Workflow Rules
I am currently working with a client that is evaluating the Windows Workflow Rules Engine. One of...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 05/15/2006
Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting - March 16th, 2006
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 16th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/13/2006
MOM, the MOM Resource Kit and BizTalk Management Packs
I have been spending a lot of time on my current project working on the operations and monitoring...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 12/02/2005
BizTalk and Windows Workflow
It always comes down to choices. The biggest part of choosing is knowing what you gain and what you...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 11/22/2005
BizTalk Rules Engine
If you are working with the BizTalk Rules Engine then here are two sites that are definitely worth...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 10/21/2005
Schema Design Patterns: Usage in BizTalk
The is the fifth of five entries talking about schema design patterns. After looking at each of...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 10/11/2005
Schema Design Patterns: Garden of Eden
This is the fourth of five entries talking about schema design patterns. In previous entries the...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 05/10/2005
Schema Design Patterns: Venetian Blind
This is the third of five entries talking about schema design patterns. In previous entries the...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 04/29/2005
Schema Design Patterns: Salami Slice
This is the second of five entries talking about schema design patters. The previous entry discussed...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 04/25/2005
Schema Design Patterns: Russian Doll
I am working on a BizTalk solution which uses a schema that was hand created using XML Spy. The...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 04/21/2005
BizTalk MSMQ Adapter and the MsmqAdapterProperties.dll
I have been working on an application which needs to send a message to a queue in which the queue...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/13/2005
MSMQ adapter error if MSMQ/C adapter was installed
My client had a preview of the MSMQ/C adapter and was using it in their development environment....
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 02/18/2005
Using SQLXML's at-identity with BizTalk
I was looking for a way to send data to SQL Server to populate multiple tables in a parent-child...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 01/31/2005
SQL Adapter, Updategrams and Multiple Tables
When using the SQL Adapter, it provides the ability to auto generate an Updategram schema based on...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 01/27/2005
The Rules Engine and Repeating Elements
I have found a scenario with the rules engine where the defaults in the Rule Composer do not produce...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 12/30/2004
Promoted properties on imported schemas
When using imported schemas that have promoted properties, those promoted properties do not get...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 11/11/2004
Base Data Types and Restrictions in the Schema Editor
In the past I had blogged about another item that needed to be manually added to the schema through...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 11/04/2004
Returning null from a Pipeline
In my previous Blog entry titled Accessing Promoted Properties in a Pipeline Component I talked...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 10/25/2004
How to get the source file name in a pipeline component
In previous entries I have shown how to access Pipeline Context items. There are a number of 'built...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 10/24/2004
Accessing Promoted Properties in a Pipeline Component
You can get access to any promoted properties that exist in the property schema for a specific...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 10/14/2004
The Bloggers Guide to BizTalk
Alan Smith has created a great resource called "The Bloggers Guide to BizTalk". He created a help...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 10/10/2004
Schema Editors
Being at client sites all day, it seems that my cube becomes a gathering spot for people to stop by...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 09/09/2004
Pipeline Interfaces
Even though you add the [ComponentCategory(CategoryTypes.CATID_Any)] attribute to your custom...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 08/23/2004
BizTalk Integration with Visual Source Safe
Since BizTalk 2002 was not integrated with Visual Studio it was up to each developer to remember to...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 08/02/2004
Debugging Pipeline Components
There are two options for debugging Pipeline components. You can debug in design-time mode or in...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 06/22/2004
Using External XSLT in the BizTalk Mapper
I had a client that had a lot of existing XSLT's that they wanted to use in BizTalk instead of...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 05/14/2004
Early Termination with Position Flat Files
When working with flat files, BizTalk assumes that each and every line contains data to match the...
Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 05/07/2004