BizTalk Development

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.” My response for the first excuse is one ...

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. if (!System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists(''BizTalkDev.Assembly.Namespace'')){  System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource(''BizTalkDev.Assembly.Namespace'', ...

If you are logging information to the EventLog and getting an access error, make sure you have the following registry setting: Launch RegEdit and navigate to: \\MyComputer\HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ Right Click on EventLog and click permissions. Add the service account (application pool ID or BizTalk host ...

Despite its flaws and bugs, Visual Source Safe continues to be the most popular source control program in the Microsoft realm. Many poeple I talk to are not aware some of its more useful functions such as ''Pinning''. Understanding the use of pinning can be very useful in a multi-developer environment. Use of Pinning: Assume there are 10 ...

When declaring complex types in XML schema definition, I have grown accustomed to suffix the type name with ''_Type''. This allows me to easily distinguish a complex type from a global type when viewing the definition in a graphical design tool such as XML Spy. However, it has unintended consequences when incorporating such schema into a web ...