I’ve seen people struggle both on the forums and while doing consulting when in it comes to finding an good way of grouping and transforming content in file before debatching it. Say for example we have a text file like the example below.

0001;Test row, id 0001, category 10;10
0002;Test row, id 0002, category 10;10
0003;Test row, id […]

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I have a old post on removing XML namespace from outgoing messages using XSLT in a map on the send port. Removing XML namespace is usually a late requirement that shows up during integration tests with for example legacy systems that has problems reading XML and only finds XML namespaces messy and confusing and wants […]

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I’ve just finished watching this webcast from QCon 2008 with Martin Fowler and Jim Webber. It’s basically their view on how integration middleware is used today and how we plan and implement our SOA and ESB project.
Their main point is that we use much to bloated middleware (BizTalk is mentioned as an example here) […]

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Yesterday I presented the MasterData Management using BizTalk 2006 R2 talk (I’ll soon have a post out with the presentation in English) I recently held at Developer Summit at the local .NET user group in Karlstad (KNUG).
KNUG is a new .NET user group that I actually helped start a couple of months ago. This […]

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This post will try and explain how BAM tracking can be used in SOAP based request response scenario in BizTalk 2006. It important to notice that some of the issues discussed in the post are specific to the SOAP adapter and are non-issues if the scenario would for example use the the WCF adapter or […]

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I recently spoke at the leading developer conference here in Sweden called Developer Summit. The talk was called Masterdata Management using BizTalk 2006. The slides can be found here.
I can really recommend Developer Summit as a conference. Everything is super well organized and having the opportunity to listen to celebrities like David Chappell, Jim Webber, […]

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The new WCF adapter in BizTalk 2006 R2 offers a lot of new possibilities. One of those is to write data to the BizTalk Message context properties directly from an exposed WCF Service. A practical use of this technic could be to write the username from the Windows credentials of the calling client into the […]

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Writing Stored Procedures is an art of its own. As all of you know it’s very different from writing ordinary code and presents its own kind of problems and issues when it comes to performance, builds, version control, testing etc. This post will try and highlight a few points that I find important when it […]

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Why loose coupling?
There was a question in Microsoft BizTalk forums the other day about how one could implement a Scatter and Gather pattern in a more loosely coupled fashion.
Most examples on the implementation of this pattern in BizTalk use the Call Shape functionality available in BizTalk orchestrations. This however creates a hard coupling between […]

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Whoho! I’ll be speaking at Developer Summit 2008. Developer Summit is a conference hosted by Cornerstone, it’s being held in Stockholm between the 9th and 11th of April 2008. 
I’ll be doing a talk on Master Data Management (MDM) for the Enterprise using BizTalk 2006. Basically I’ll present some basic theory behind the MDM concept […]

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