Category: BizTalk

BizTalk, Webcast

Orchestration pattern videos

thejohanhedberg

The second part of the Orchestration pattern seminary that Charles Young did for us at the BizTalk User Group Sweden at our december meeting is now live on channel9 and can be viewed here. The first part, which we announced here, is available for viewing on channel9 here. Posted with the help of the Microsoft Swedish MSDN Team. Thanks to all involved for making this happen – with a little luck we should be able to do it again (that is, record our meetings and get them posted to channel9). They seem to be popular.


 Although Charles talks about patterns, and useful such, you might be looking for even more. I recommend the BizTalk Server Orchestration Pattern Wizard available on codeplex. And also check out the download that on top of the sourcecode and other things contains videos explaining the included patterns by Jon Flanders.

Administration, BizTalk, Conference, PDC

A BizTalk Developers approach to Dublin

thejohanhedberg

Relax. Grab a beer (a Guiness perhaps). Dublin, the application server role extension to WAS/IIS, is to be released roughly three months after Visual Studio 2010, so somewhere around 1,5-2 years from now. There is still time to come to grips with it. Even so… Although purposefully and overly simplified from the technological aspect from the visual aspect Dublin looks like the BizTalk Admin Console. It acts the same. The terms used are the same. There the queries for messages, there are Active instances (Running or Ready to Run), there are Suspended instances – which you can resume or terminate, there is context based routing, it imports and exports applications easily etc. But Dublin is of course much more then a user interface. When you dive down into it, it seperates itself through a number of things. Read more at Charles Youngs post here. But BizTalk developers, don’t worry, you’ll quickly feel at home.

Adapters, BizTalk, Download, SFTP

Blogical SFTP Adapter v1.3

thejohanhedberg

I’ve updated the Blogical SFTP Adapter previously released to codeplex by Mikael to include a couple of new features that have been requested and developed for or by customers or community.




  • The abaility to leave files on the source server and rename them instead of deleting them after get.


  • The ability to give a name, not only for the temp path but for the temp file, written to the source server through a send port, to be used for example when you want to directly to the destination folder and only want it to have it’s final name once fully written.


  • The ability to after you have put a file verify that it is really the same size (bytes) as the stream delivered to the adapter by BizTalk. This can be useful when you distrust the network or the receiving server, and causes a delete of the remote file and a following retry in BizTalk should the file sizes no match.

Read more and get the Blogical SFTP Adapter here.


With the above said, we are trying our best to react to requests and suggestions for improvement as well as direct bug reports. For minor or easily adjusted feature additions or bug fixes we are happy to help you right away. For major feature requests or custom development, we will try our best to make it happen, but things might be speedier if we set up a business arrangement around that, if you have such requirements. Please feel free to contact us, though all comments and suggestions should as a first option be posted on the discussions board of the Blogical SFTP Adapter at codeplex.