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Increase XSLT performance by using xls:key

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Friday, March 3, 2006 Read

DevDays 7 & 8 March

This March the DevDays are coming to Amsterdam and I will be there to speak on BizTalk Server 2006 together with collegae Matt Joe, who is flown in from Seattle. I will be doing some demos involving BAM and in-order processing. Matt will also be accompanying Dennis Mulder in a very promising talk on Windows Workflow Foundation. Last but not least my manager Edwin Jongsma will enlighten everyone on the subject of Software Factories (Domain Specific Languages).

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 Read

BizTalk Load Generation Utility reloaded

The BizTalk load generation utility, originally released by Microsoft several months ago, was quickly removed from their downloads page for enhancement. The enhanced version is now available for download here. The interesting part is that this tool works with the Performance Tester Tool of Larry Beck (see post below).

Monday, February 13, 2006 Read

BizTalk Performance Tester released

Better late then never, but about a month ago Larry Beck released the completed version of the BizTalk Performance Tester (BTSPerfTester). This application is intended to provide developers with an easily implemented and predictable method of determining the maximum sustainable throughput of their BizTalk solutions. You can get it from his blog here.

Monday, February 13, 2006 Read

Suppress XML documentation warnings for a project

When I turned on the feature to output an XML documentation file when building my project I’m confronted with a load of warnings that the XML documentation is missing for some method. While it’s nice to see these warnings I didn’t want to see them anymore without lowering the warning level. So I searched the net and found a way to suppress these warnings: Go to the properties of your project.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Read

Identify node type in XSLT

For a BizTalk solution I needed to write some custom XSLT. In the XSLT I needed to determine the node type and according to the type execute a specific piece of XSLT. Unfortunately it’s not very easy to get the node type in XSLT. It took me a while to find this post which explains a solution for this. Maybe it could help you out. http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/200312/post00260.html

Monday, January 9, 2006 Read

Happy new year!

From this place I would like to wish both readers of this blog a happy new year. My target for 2006 is to grow this blog and hopefully more people will read it.

Monday, January 2, 2006 Read

Load XmlSchema's from BizTalk assembly

That BizTalk compiles your XmlSchema’s into an assembly is great, but wouldn’t it be greater if you could reuse those schema’s in your code? No more hassle of different versions of your schema and your schema’s always at your fingertips because they are in the GAC. Well…it took me a while to figure that it’s actually really simple to do. To load a schema from an external assembly just instantiate the class which describes your schema.

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 Read

BizTalk Server 2006 CTM Released

As per monday October 7th Microsoft released BizTalk Server 2006 CTM. This release is only available for users with a MSDN or TechNet account. The CTM release of BizTalk Server 2006 is fully compatible with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. I just can smell the RTM version coming very soon.

Thursday, November 10, 2005 Read

Access message properties inside custom pipeline component

Just recently I was looking for some default message properties and how to read and write them inside a custom pipeline component. While searching I stumbled over a great post listing all the default message properties and how to read them. If you want to access the properties in your custom pipeline component, you have to get the IBaseMessageContext object from the IBaseContext and use the Read method to get a value or the Write method to substitute a value with your own.

Thursday, November 10, 2005 Read

BizTalk's sexy new XSLT mapper

I’ve just watched a clip from Channel9 featuring Eddie Churchill. In the video he demonstrates a prototype of the future BizTalk mapper. The new mapper will contain some very impressive features as I must say. Some of them make the life of the mapper a lot easier, especially when dealing with large maps. Some of the features which are shown in the video are: Different drawing densities for lines which are in view and which aren’t.

Tuesday, November 1, 2005 Read

Workflow designer will substitute orchestration designer in BizTalk vNext

I heard it from collegues who went to the PDC a couple of weeks ago. But I heard it myself at the BPI & Workflow conference earlier this october. The new workflow designer that Workflow Foundation features will substitute the good ol’ orchestration designer in BizTalk vNext. This means that in the near future BizTalk Server and Workflow Foundation will grow to each other and will make a very strong team in delivering high available and reliable business solution.

Monday, October 24, 2005 Read