http://www.richardhallgren.com Scribbles on .NET, BizTalk and integration etc ... Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:51:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.richardhallgren.com/efficient-grouping-and-debatching-of-big-files-using-biztalk-2006/ It seems like there more build script one writes, the more often one wants to run them and it's always a bit annoying (and time consuming) having to leave Visual Studio and start MSBuild from the command line. Brennan Stehling has a cool solution to that problem here were he ... http://www.richardhallgren.com/running-msbuild-scripts-from-visual-studio/ I'm really looking forward to the release of stackoverflow.com - have you heard about it? If not it's a collaboration between Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood. Joel and Jeff are of course the two blogger behind the popular Joel on Software and Coding Horror blogs. Joel is also ... http://www.richardhallgren.com/looking-forward-to-stackoverflowcom/ 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 ... http://www.richardhallgren.com/removing-xml-namespaces-revisit/ 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 ... http://www.richardhallgren.com/does-biztalk-have-man-bobs/ 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 ... http://www.richardhallgren.com/speaking-at-knug-karlstad-net-user-group/ 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 ... http://www.richardhallgren.com/using-bam-for-latency-tracking-in-a-biztalk-request-response-scenario/ 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 ... http://www.richardhallgren.com/talking-at-developer-summit-on-masterdata-management-using-biztalk-2006/ 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 ... http://www.richardhallgren.com/writing-biztalk-context-properties-to-a-message-from-a-wcf-service-using-behaviors/ 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 ... http://www.richardhallgren.com/random-thoughts-on-sql-server-adapter-and-t-sql-stored-procedures-for-biztalk-2006/