Comments on: Reading the message body and context from the BizTalkDTADb using operations library in BizTalk 2006

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:23:18 +0000

@Dan: Sounds you’re using the right property. Are you sure you have activated DTA tracking in the ports?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:37:56 +0000

ey Man, very useful..
I just want to know what is de messageID… I using the function inside a component and this component is called from an Orchestration… but still I dont know what message property I need to send to the function.. I tried with BTS.MessageId but doesnt work…. do you know what message property is the one?

thanks in advanced

By: Umesh

Umesh — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:36:48 +0000

Hi,
I want to read body and attachment(all attachment) from my mail box.
Currently i am reading my body as an xml file but i am not able to read body and attachment at a time .

I taken Body part content type- Text/Xml and Body part index=1

Please help me in this issue.

Also i want to know can i read only body as a text ,i dont want it in xml file.

Can any one help me ?

By: 3 ways of programmatically extracting a message body from the BizTalk tracking database « Connected Thoughts - Thiago Almeida

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:59:10 +0000

[...] the great post mentioning this method by Richard Hallgren: http://www.richardhallgren.com/reading-the-message-body-and-context-from-the-biztalkdtadb-using-oper... 2. Use the WMI MSBTS_TrackedMessageInstance.SaveToFile method to save the instance to disk. This [...]

By: Fat64

Fat64 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:46:33 +0000

The problem is solved. I had Biztalk Server 2006, not 2006 R2. With R2 works fine. Thank you!

By: Fat64

Fat64 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:56:12 +0000

Hallo Richard!
I tried to use your code from this page to get messge body and I had an error in

BizTalkOperations operations = new BizTalkOperations();

The error is:
System.ArgumentNullException was unhandled by user code
Message=”Value cannot be null.\r\nParameter name: dbName”
Source=”Microsoft.BizTalk.Operations”
ParamName=”dbName”
StackTrace:
at Microsoft.BizTalk.Operations.BizTalkDatabase.CheckInputParams(String dbServer, String dbName)
…

What do I wrong?

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:50:40 +0000

@Mehdi

BizTalk is really “slimmed down” when it comes to logging content of messages by default. All to make it perform better when moving messages around. You’ll have to either track it using BAM, your own logging or by using the built in message logging. Otherwise no content of the message will be logged or stored. To my knowledge you can’t get your past traffic if you haven’t configured to use any of the above tracking options.

By: Mehdi Etehadi

Mehdi Etehadi — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:19:52 +0000

My problem is:
I have a installed BTS and it is working for a while. Now I need all information about messages which are passed through BTS, but unfortunately I didn’t create neither BAM activity nor message tracking at ports.
Now I think the best place to find tracking information is Log files.
But I don’t know where they are .
I hope that I could explain my idea.
Thank you for attention .

By: Cristina

Cristina — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:14:44 +0000

Almost an year later, this post is still a sanity saver. Thank you very much for the sample code! We needed the EDI message in its original form inside an orchestration, and looking it up in the DTA database the old-fashioned way proved a lot more difficult than anticipated…

By: Kavitha

Kavitha — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:16:28 +0000

Hi richard,

This is very usefull indeed, please send me the sample application and source code.

Thanks in Advance,
Kavitha