by Stephen W. Thomas | Feb 27, 2006 | Azure Integration Thoughts
These three topics could be entire blog posts on there own. In this case, I’ll briefly cover all three and show how to use them all together. Start Orchestration – This shape give you the ability to asynchronously start a new Orchestration. You can pass in...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Jan 26, 2006 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Recently I have been working a lot with the BizTalk Rules Engine (BRE) that comes along with Biztalk Server 2004. Rather than the more common approach of using the BRE inside a BizTalk Orchestration passing in XML messages, I have been working with the rules engine in...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Jan 26, 2006 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Over the course of the past few weeks, I found several different ways to completely break the Business Rules Engine. The common error I received is “Failed to Load”. I received this inside the Policies, Vocabularies, and when Importing the rules from XML....
by Stephen W. Thomas | Dec 29, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
I guess I was sleeping and forgot to post the answers to the BizTalk Interview Questions from a few posts ago. No worries though, Gustavo Echeverry went thought and answered them complete with reference! Great work! In any case, here are my answers. Of course, in some...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Dec 15, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Today I ran into a strange problem. Visual Studios would not launch! No matter what I did, it was totally dead. I had remove Visual Studios 2005 Beta 2 a few weeks ago and upgraded to RTM. Today, I installed BizTalk 2006 Beta 2 and configured it with no problems. I...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Dec 13, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Wow, it has been some time now since I last blogged. I would like to say I have been super busy with tons of project work. But, actually I have been on vacation most of the time. From time to time I get the chance to interview prospective Biztalk resource to join...
