by Stephen W. Thomas | Apr 25, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Message context is a critical part of message routing and processing inside BizTalk Server 2004. How this context is handled during mapping is different depending on the location of the mapping. The context is copied differently using Receive Port mapping verses...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Apr 22, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
The Convoy Deep Dive white paper and sample code is now available on MSDN. You can read the paper on-line and download the sample code here. For anyone who read the “beta” version of the paper, Scenario 2 went through a minor change. I now use an atomic...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Apr 4, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Microsoft has released 5 new White Papers today in a “Beta” mode. Full details on all 5 are available here. They include the following: – BizTalk Server 2004 Web Services (Brian Loesgen) – BizTalk Server Internal Workings (Internal) – SQL...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Apr 1, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
In addition to all the other cool stuff available in BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 1 is the addition of the Additional Flat File Schema Properties to the schema properties window when working with Flat Files. Now, properties like Allow Early Termination, Generate...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Mar 31, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Today I was working on some content for Tech Ed when I found a major error in a sample I posted about 4 months ago. The error caused the CR-LF’s between records to be included in the positional character count during debatching and actually into the messages...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Mar 29, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Recently I have seen a lot of talk about large message support in BizTalk 2004. The most interesting and depressing was on the BizTalk Core Engine WebLog. It seems that large messages do not work as well in BizTalk 2004 as I would have hoped. I have had success with...
