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Parallel Sequential Convoy in BizTalk Server 2004
Here is another sample of a Sequential Convoy in BizTalk 2004. This is a little different then most, it contains a...
Mapping in Send Ports with Delivery Notification
I have talked in the past about NACKs. These are great little messages that allow you to receive the status of your...
How to get the Instance ID of your Running Orchestration
Have you ever wanted to know the Instance ID of an Orchestration in BizTalk 2004 at run time? Just add this line of...
Working with Untyped Messages In An Orchestration – Part 2
This is follow up on a post back in August on Untyped Messages. This also combines information from another post of...
Performance Counters in BizTalk Server 2004
Have you wanted to know what exactly BizTalk Server 2004 is doing at a giving instance? How many Orchestrations are...
How to Limit the Number of Running Orchestration Instances in BizTalk
Are you missing the feature of Application Pools that was available in BizTalk 2002? Need to limit your running...
Property Schema and Promoted Properties In Custom Pipelines
Topics Covered: - Custom promoted properties inside a pipeline - Schema Property: “Property schema base” -...
Sequential Convoys in BizTalk
I need to start off with a note about the Parallel Sequential Convoy sample that I am working on. I am still working...
Envelope Processing on Send and Receive Ports
Have you looked at the SDK example working with Envelopes in BizTalk 2004 for Flat Files and tried to get it to work...