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BizTalk Orchestrations XPath: Survival Guide

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Following are good links Xpath in BizTalk , Original Article is here

ESB Toolkit webcasts

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ESB Toolkit How To 4: Dynamic Itinerary Resolution Peter Kelcey
Peter Kelcey
In this video, I’ll show you how to create an BRE policy to resolve itineraries and I’ll show you how to setup your BizTalk receive ports to use this policy. I’ll show you how to implement context and content based itinerary resolution.
February 17 2010 Views: 3712 Rating: 4.1 (15 votes) Duration: 15:47
ESB Toolkit How To 3: Itinerary Resolution in the ESB Peter Kelcey
Peter Kelcey
These two new features allow us to implement a solution where a client no longer has to have any knowledge of itineraries. Now, they simply have to pass in their message to the ESB where it will dynamically figure out what itinerary is needed and it will load that itinerary from the database. In this video, I’ll show you how to implement this feature. To demo this feature, I use an InfoPath form which sends data to a generic OnRamp which uses the Itinerary Resolver. I’ll walk you through the process of storing your itinerary into the database, creating the new generic OnRamp that will use the itinerary resolution feature and I’ll show you how to configure the Itinerary resolver to retrieve the itinerary from the database.
February 17 2010 Views: 3103 Rating: 3.9 (11 votes) Duration: 13:29
ESB Toolkit How To 2: Dynamic Mapping and Service Composition Peter Kelcey
Peter Kelcey
In this demo, I show you how to do a number of new things. How to create an itinerary that compose three services together into a single composite service. How to setup your BizTalk environment to support this type of itinerary. Including how to create the send ports required for a composite service itinerary. How to retrieve information from a UDDI v3 server from within your itinerary. How to test resolvers inside visual studio using the resolver web service. How to implement dynamic mapping and dynamic routing inside an itinerary.
February 17 2010 Views: 3387 Rating: 4.0 (13 votes) Duration: 25:50
ESB Toolkit How To 1: Dynamic Routing and Endpoint Resolution Peter Kelcey
Peter Kelcey
What I’ll be showing is how this can be implemented using the basic routing capabilities of the ESB 2.0. I’ll take you through the process of setting this up from start to finish. We setup the BizTalk components, define the Itinerary (which defines the process flow within the ESB) and we’ll test the end to end process. If any of those terms were new for you (i.e. itineraries, biztalk, uddi etc), then I would recommend you take a bit of time and review the basic concepts of the ESB guidance.
February 17 2010 Views: 5186 Rating: 2.3 (107 votes) Duration: 27:12
Extending the Reach: Using a BizTalk ESB Off-ramp to send to Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus Brian Loesgen
Brian Loesgen
This video shows how to use a BizTalk ESB off-ramp to send messages to the Windows Azure platform Service Bus, using the WCF-Custom adapter and ESB Toolkit WCF-Custom Adapter Provider. This enables Windows Azure platform Service Bus interactions to occur as part of itinerary processing, participating as a first-class citizen in an ESB flow.
February 11 2010 Views: 2430 Rating: 3.8 (4 votes) Duration: 10:53
ESB Toolkit 2.0: Itinerary Demo Brian Loesgen
Brian Loesgen
Walks through the ESB Toolkit 2.0 Itinerary design process and tooling.
July 8 2009 Views: 3748 Rating: 3.6 (26 votes) Duration: 19:45
ESB Toolkit 2.0: Order Demo Brian Loesgen
Brian Loesgen
Shows how BizTalk and the ESB Toolkit 2.0 can be used in a process that uses dynamic messaging (message itineraries are dynamically selected based on rules engine evaluation of message content). In addition, it shows how SharePoint can be used to provide human intervention into a process, as well as BizTalk’s BAM capabilities. This is a compelling demo as the scenario is very simple, yet it really brings together and shows off the power of the Microsoft stack.
July 8 2009 Views: 2641 Rating: 4.0 (29 votes) Duration: 12:17

BizTalk 2010 Cumulative Update Package 4 available BizTalk 2010 Cumulative Update Package 4 available

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Cumulative update package 4 for BizTalk Server 2010 is now available and it is a rollup update that contains the following items:

  • All previously released hotfixes for BizTalk Server 2010
  • Some hotfixes for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 and for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2
  • Some other fixes that improve the product

This cumulative update package for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 contains hotfixes for the BizTalk Server 2010 issues that were resolved after the release of BizTalk Server 2010.

Hotfixes that are included in cumulative update package 4 for BizTalk Server 2010

BizTalk Server EDI support

  • 2642402: FIX: An EDI pipeline does not work after you install BizTalk Server 2010 CU1 or BizTalk Server 2010 CU2
  • 2662496: FIX: Incorrect outbound messages if the Envelopes default transaction type is not set to the HIPAA 277_A message in BizTalk Server 2010
  • 2662536: FIX: Invalid value for the AK301 segment when you receive an EDI message that has a bad segment identifier in BizTalk Server 2010

BizTalk Server Message Runtime and Pipelines

  • 2672494: FIX: The BizTalk Server MessageBox database grows very large because records are not cleared in the EqualsPredicate2ndPass table in BizTalk Server 2010
  • 2662532: FIX: A “Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb)” job on BizTalk Server 2010 fails when you try to back up a custom database

Collapse this tableExpand this tableBizTalk Server Management Tools

  • 2673264: FIX: “Error saving map. Stored procedure returned non-zero result.” error message when you deploy the BizTalk Server 2010 applications in BizTalk Server 2010 Administration Console
  • 2672496: FIX: A 64-bit application that uses the Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM.dll file fails if the BizTalk Management Database is on a named instance in BizTalk Server 2010

Note: It is recommended that you test hotfixes before you deploy them in a production environment. Because the builds are cumulative, each new update release contains all the hotfixes and all the security updates that were included in the previous BizTalk Server 2010 update release. However, it is recommended that you consider applying the most recent BizTalk Server 2010 update release.

To know more about this CU check Microsoft Help and Support.

Original post by Guru Venkataraman (BizTalk Customer Response Team) here

BizTalk Server 2010 Business Rule Engine: Survival Guide

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During the studying BRE i found following survival guide for BRE.

 

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6480.aspx

Some excerpt form above link

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Out of box the business rules engine (BRE ) is offered as either stand-alone .NET-compliant class library that includes a number of modules, support components, and tools or as component within your BizTalk solution enabling you to apply business rules to your processes (i.e. orchestrations). BRE implements the Rete algorithm , which is an efficient pattern matching algorithm for implementing production rule systems, and provides forward chaining execution. Forward chaining is one of the two main methods of reasoning when using inference rules (in artificial intelligence). This article will give you an overview of all relevant available resources regarding BRE to enable you to build robust solution with BRE.

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What is MSMQ and How to configure it on windows 7

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Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ):
MSMQ is a messaging protocol that allows applications running on separate servers/processes to communicate in a failsafe manner. A queue is a temporary storage location from which messages can be sent and received reliably, as and when conditions permit. Queues are used to receive and send the Messages.
To Install MSMQ, Go to Control Panel -> Add Remove Program -> Add Windows Component and select “Message Queuing”

 

Install MSMQ – Microsoft Messaging Queue

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BizTalk Server Pipeline Component Wizard

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If you need to design BizTalk Pipeline custom component, Use the BizTalk Pipeline Component Wizard on codeplex
(http://btsplcw.codeplex.com), It is my favorite way to create pipeline components.
It is an easy-to-use tool that walks you through the pipeline component creation
process via a friendly wizard.

http://btsplcw.codeplex.com/