Paul Wu on BizTalk Development

Back from exile

Paul Wu — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:27:00 GMT

It has been awhile since I last blogged. I have been away working on a very interesting project for a financial services company. The project entailed building a service broker using BizTalk 2006 (not R2) with WCF to achieve better decoupling of service consumers and service providers....(read more)

BizTalk Deployment Error: Failed to update binding information. All orchestration ports must be bound and the host must be set.

Paul Wu — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:21:00 GMT

When deploying a BizTalk 2006 solution from Visual Studios, you may have encountered errors similar to this one: Error 6 Failed to update binding information. Could not enlist orchestration 'DataStream.SOL.ScaterServiceRequests,DataStream.SOL.Demo, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=806c67aab899168c'. Could not enlist orchestration 'DataStream.SOL.ScaterServiceRequests'. All orchestration ports must be bound and the host must be set....(read more)

Error: "Your search cannot be completed because this site is not assigned to an indexer. Contact your administrator for more information."

Paul Wu — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:28:00 GMT

I was querying Search using SharePoint's object model when I encountered the following error message: "Your search cannot be completed because this site is not assigned to an indexer. Contact your administrator for more information." ...(read more)

IE7 Crash when accessing MOSS 2007

Paul Wu — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:42:00 GMT

When you access a MOSS site and click on a feature that requires Office, you may get the following error that will crash IE7: The exception unknown software exception (0xc06d007f) occurred in the application at location 0x77e55e02. ...(read more)

Best Use of &&

Paul Wu — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:56:00 GMT

You may have to written code that checks if an object is null before you use it......(read more)

Code Snippet: CodeDOM expressions

Paul Wu — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:48:00 GMT

Knowing all the classes in the CodeDOM namespace isn't very useful unless one knows how to appy them. This blog entry will serve as a cheat sheet for the most commonly used expressions and statements. This page is a work in progress......(read more)

Bind 2 way RoleLink with a 1 way Send Port

Paul Wu — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:57:00 GMT

Your orchestration uses a 2 way RoleLink for delivery but a new trading partner will only accept orders via a one way port. What do you do?...(read more)

Automated Continuous Integration is Your Friend

Paul Wu — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:46:00 GMT

The other day, in discussing the virtues of automated continuous integration with a client, I came across a few excuses for not adapting the process. The argument goes like this: “We don’t have enough hardware resource for a build server.” “I am the sole developer so I don’t need it.” ...(read more)

BAM TPE Error: Failed to remove the tracking profile.

Paul Wu — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:57:00 GMT

The Tracking Profile Editor (TPE), allows the user to add or remove tracking profile without having access to the a .BTT file (not possible with bttdeploy.exe). ...(read more)

Code Snippet: Writing to the EventLog

Paul Wu — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:04:00 GMT

Here is a code snippet for writing information to the EventLog. This code will work in a BizTalk Expression Shape as well as in a .NET application. .....(read more)

Windows Denfender Error: Application failed to initialize: 0x800106ba. A problem caused Windows Defender Service to stop

Paul Wu — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:47:00 GMT

This morning I discovered my Windows Defender no longer worked. I was prompted with a non-intuitive error message: Application failed to initialize: 0x800106ba. A problem caused Windows Defender Service to stop. To start the service, restart your computer or search Help and Support on how to start a service manually......(read more)

Dell PowerEdge SC1435 : Most Bang-for-the-Buck Quad Core Server

Paul Wu — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:16:00 GMT

I just ordered a Dell SC1435 and I must say that I am very impressed with how much computing power Dell packed into a diminutive 1U space......(read more)

Send an Acknowledgement Response without an Orchestration

Paul Wu — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:01:00 GMT

Here is how you can create a messaging based solution that sends an HTTP POST acknowledgement without involving an orchestration......(read more)

BAM Add-On Error: "XML does not conform to the BizTalk Server 2006 Bam Definition Schema"

Paul Wu — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:01:00 GMT

If you encounter the following error when trying to [Save] or [Export XML]: This XML does not conform to the BizTalk Server 2006 Bam Definition Schema. ...(read more)

DevConnection 2006 - Las Vegas

Paul Wu — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:34:00 GMT

The DevConnection conference in Las Vegas this week offers developers and IT professional alike great opportunities to learn the latest Microsoft technology offerings......(read more)