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How to Get Message Context Values Inside a Map

by Stephen W. Thomas | Apr 18, 2006 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Carlos Medina has created a functoid that can be used to extract context values from a message inside a map! This is a very common problems and this approach is something I didn’t really consider. Make sure you check out his post. He has sample code and the...

How To Use BizTalk Messaging for Grouping, Sorting, and Debatching

by Stephen W. Thomas | Apr 3, 2006 | Azure Integration Thoughts

In a past edition of The BizTalker, I talked about how easy it is to use custom XSLT inside the BizTalk Mapper to sort data. Sorting data inside the map can be doing using inline XSLT like this: <xsl:for-each select=”Record”> <xsl:sort...

BizTalk 2006 RTM Available on MSDN Site

by Stephen W. Thomas | Mar 27, 2006 | Azure Integration Thoughts

It’s a great day in world of BizTalk! BizTalk Server 2006 is now available for download on the MSDN Subscribers Download site! Also available are the SWIFT, RosettaNet, HL7, and HIPPA Accelerators as well as the Enterprise Application...

BizTalk Server 2004 Rules Engine Deployment Tool

by Stephen W. Thomas | Mar 20, 2006 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Find yourself running the Rules Engine Deployment Wizard over and over again to export and import policies and vocabularies? Looking for a simple push button approach to move a full configuration from one server to another? My simple Rules Engine Deployment Tool will...

Working With Untyped Web Services in BizTalk Server

by Stephen W. Thomas | Mar 13, 2006 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Creating an Untyped Web Service will allow you to easily submit Xml Documents into BizTalkthrough the web service. Make sure you check out my previous post on this topic. Create the Web Service 1. Run the Web Service Publishing Wizard 2. Select “Publish Schema...

How To Use SOAP to Submitt Xml Documents Into BizTalk Server

by Stephen W. Thomas | Mar 13, 2006 | Azure Integration Thoughts

You probably know about untyped messages inside an Orchestration (that is, messages treated as Xml Documents rather than typed schema). Wouldn’t it be nice to have an untyped web service to submit messages into BizTalk? How would this make life easier? You could...
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