11/7/2008 BizTalk MAP : Suppress element in output, if its not present in input.

Posted at: 11/7/2008 at 1:45 PM by saravana
I have seen this question being asked in news group often. It's something very trivial to do in BizTalk map using the value mapping functoid, which returns the value of the second parameter if the value of the first parameter is true. Hope this picture will explain how to do it. Note: make sure th... [More]

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11/5/2008 Dealing with web services returning byte[] in BizTalk

Posted at: 11/5/2008 at 11:51 AM by saravana
Recently I saw some postings in the BizTalk newsgroup asking how we can handle web service operation that returns a byte[]. Even though it’s a trivial task, you need to be aware of certain things. Below is my simple web service operation, which returns a byte[]. For simplicity, I just got this one ... [More]

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11/3/2008 Silverlight on top of BAM data

Posted at: 11/3/2008 at 5:36 PM by saravana
I always got some affection towards the UI and design technologies as a hobbyist. Even though I'm working as a full time BizTalk consultant for a while now, in each and every project I kind of introduced a web project for some sort of monitoring/configuration type of work. In my current ... [More]

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10/2/2008 BizTalk Posters section added to biztalk247.com

Posted at: 10/2/2008 at 8:12 AM by saravana
This one was in my todo list for a very long time, at last its been added. Here is the link http://www.biztalk247.com/v1/ContentTransformerImgView.aspx?tag=5f1bc49c-9353-48cc-bfdf-ce4d7b4cd250 Nandri! Saravana

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10/2/2008 .NET Framework 4.0 and "Dublin"

Posted at: 10/2/2008 at 8:08 AM by saravana
As an MVP I've been involved in series of web conferences and SDR (Software design reviews) related to "Dublin". As Darren mentioned here, the news came bit earlier than expected. It is more exciting time for people involved in Connected system development (Windows Communication[WCF]... [More]

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9/5/2008 Convert Atom to RSS, vise-versa with 4 lines of WCF code

Posted at: 9/5/2008 at 4:51 PM by saravana
Working with different Syndication format is a real pain, most of the time applications utilizing Syndications converts them to one format to keep their object model simple. This is the technique I used in BizTalk 247 blog aggregator and blogDoc. Converting from one format to another is a ... [More]

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9/5/2008 Introducing biztalk247.com - blogdoc

Posted at: 9/5/2008 at 12:55 PM by saravana
It's been a long journey creating blogdoc, it was silently live for almost 8 months now. There is always something you like to add to the site, its a never ending story. Now I think its time to reveal it to public. Still I got some back-end work to be completed, but I'll take the plunge an... [More]

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8/28/2008 Blog Migration - blog engine change, URL change, hosting provider change and Face lift.

Posted at: 8/28/2008 at 11:58 AM by saravana
Below table summarizes the undergone changes. The objective is NOT to cause any disruption to blog readers(subscribers), try to preserve the search engine ranking and migrate the URL to new home safely.  Its not a trivial task, so I took some time to put this article, so that it can help few pe... [More]

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8/27/2008 Renaming your BizTalk machine

Posted at: 8/27/2008 at 6:04 PM by saravana
Anyone who been working on BizTalk server long enough will know renaming a BizTalk machine is not a trivial task. It always involves quite a bit of manual work, things like Un-configure the existing setting either using the UI or ConfigFramework /U switch Deleting the Databases manually, ... [More]

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8/26/2008 Multiple Isolated Host (Host Instances) - Multiple Virtual directories - different adapters, what are the rules?

Posted at: 8/26/2008 at 3:02 PM by saravana
If your BizTalk solution is mainly relying on HTTP/SOAP adapter (we are still in BTS 2006 - no WCF yet), you'll soon see weird errors popping up due to BizTalk isolated host instances / IIS Application pool  configuration. The most common one you'll encounter is this The Messagin... [More]

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