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16/11/2020

Handling zombie messages in BizTalk

  Zombie messages are messages that were routed to a running orchestration from the messageBox and were currently “in flight” when the orchestration instance ended. In other words, we have …
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BizTalk
05/10/2020

Using variables in BizTalk bindings in Azure DevOps

In this article, we will see how to use variables in BizTalk bindings during automatic deployments using Azure DevOps. We will also see how to have different configurations depending on the …
BizTalk
20/07/2020

Aggregating messages and assembling flat files with Windows Task Scheduler

One issue I often encounter within BizTalk projects is aggregating and assembling flat files. While mechanisms do exist to carry out both operations, the most important thing is still to know when …
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BizTalk
04/05/2020

How to do a GroupBy with xslt 1.0

The source schema comes from an SQL database. It comprises a single repeatable Order record, containing all the fields. The destination schema comprises a number of records which are embedded. Our …
DevOps
BizTalk
18/02/2020

BizTalk Server Application Project : Release pipeline

This article will demonstrate how to deploy a BizTalk application on a BizTalk ‘On Premise’ server following generation of artifacts in Azure DevOps. The BizTalk Server Application project …
Pipeline
BizTalk
23/01/2020

BizTalk Server Application Project : Build pipeline

To undertake the operations described in this article, an Azure DevOps account with creation rights over pipelines is necessary. The aim of this article is to show how it is possible, from a …
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BizTalk
12/11/2019

Embed loops in dual input map

Recently, wanting to apply conditions to a dual input map where both source messages have repeating nodes, I realized that this was no easy matter.   Message B (resulting from an SQL query) is …
Messages
BizTalk
20/10/2019

Aggregate Messages in an Orchestration with a Send Pipeline

In this article, we suggest using a send pipeline in an orchestration so as to aggregate messages. The advantages of this method are: proper control over the structure of aggregated messages; full …
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BizTalk
24/09/2019

Acknowledgment (ACK and NACK) handling with Microsoft BizTalk Server

We have seen, as part of a client project, the requirement to manage acknowledgments (ACK) and negative acknowledgments (NACK) when sending messages. This means we need to respond differently in the …
graphQL with BizTalk Server
BizTalk
02/07/2019

GraphQL with BizTalk

To communicate with APIs, the message format generally used by Microsoft BizTalk Server is XML or Json. There are indeed some native pipeline components which allows us, while both sending and …
debatch xml orchestration
BizTalk
10/05/2019

XML debatching in an orchestration with XPath

When you want to debatch an XML file under BizTalk, there are two ways to do this either with a pipeline or with XPath. Here it is going to be about the second way, and we will start with the unitary …
debatching inside orchestration with BizTalk
BizTalk
11/03/2019

Debatching a XML message in an orchestration with a pipeline

Why would we need to debatch an XML message in an orchestration with a pipeline instead of using straight the receive pipeline on the port ? It turns out that is interesting for the following …