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Envelope Processing on Send and Receive Ports

by Stephen Thomas | Aug 22, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Have you looked at the SDK example working with Envelopes in BizTalk 2004 for Flat Files and tried to get it to work with XML Documents? Well, I did and I found it a little trickier than I expected. Key Take Home Points: – De-Batching / Envelope Processing for...

Working with IF Statements In an Expression Shape

by Stephen Thomas | Aug 19, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts

I saw a recent post on Scott’s Blog about what’s valid inside an expression shape. It gave a helpful list of expressions that are not allowed inside the Expression Shape. I was surprised by one of the items in the list, the “if”. I had been...

Large Messages and Large Maps in BizTalk

by Stephen Thomas | Aug 17, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Updated 8/8/2005:Please note the information below is outdated and I would never recommend mapping messages of this size inside Biztalk 2004. Biztalk 2006 will have support for larger messages by breaking up the message into chunks. More information on large message...

Working with Untyped Send and Receive Ports in BizTalk Orchestrations

by Stephen Thomas | Aug 10, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Scott posted a message back in June about untyped receive ports inside on Orchestration. Untyped Messages means you receive or send a message as System.Xml.XmlDocument rather then a specific schema type. This is an incredibly powerful feature in BizTalk 2004! Business...

BizTalk Delivery Notification and NACK Sample

by Stephen Thomas | Aug 2, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Did anyone read Kevin Smith’s blog on ACK/NACK and run out to try it? Well, I did and found it a more time consuming then I expected. I have put together a sample that shows how to catch the SOAP exception and get access to the error message. I hope that after...

What If a Map Fails on a Send Port in BizTalk 2004

by Stephen Thomas | Jul 30, 2004 | Azure Integration Thoughts

This is a challenge to overcome in BizTalk 2004. It seemsthat themessage never hits the Send Pipeline and as far as I can tell no error is written to HAT. The only place this error is written to is the Event Log.But this is ok if you are using MOM or something else to...
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