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BizTalk Orchestration – Orchestration debugging inside Visual Studio – Part II (BizTalk 2009)
Sandro Pereira
Sep 11, 2009
Debugging orchestrations is often cited as one of the most challenging aspects of BizTalk development This post provides the essential roadmap for developers
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BizTalk Orchestration – Orchestration debugging inside Visual Studio
Sandro Pereira
Sep 7, 2009
We’ve all been there: an orchestration is suspended, and the error message is too generic to be helpful While the BizTalk Admin Console is great for
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BizTalk Working With XPath – XPath 1.0 Operators and Special Characters Quick Reference
Sandro Pereira
Aug 29, 2009
In BizTalk Server, XPath is the "scalpel" you use to perform surgery on XML messages While the Mapper handles basic tasks, Orchestration expressions and
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BizTalk Working With XPath – XPath 1.0 Function Library Quick Reference
Sandro Pereira
Aug 29, 2009
Whether you are extracting a value in an Orchestration Expression shape or building a complex Custom XSLT map, XPath is the language of choice However,
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What are the different types of transactions available for orchestration?
Sandro Pereira
Aug 15, 2009
When an orchestration fails halfway through, you can't leave your data in a "half-baked" state BizTalk provides three ways to manage state and recovery
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Difference between call and start Orchestration
Sandro Pereira
Aug 15, 2009
In BizTalk Server, modularity is achieved by having one orchestration invoke another While the Call and Start shapes might look similar in the toolbox, they
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Input/Output parameters in orchestrations – Adding Parameters to Orchestrations
Sandro Pereira
Aug 15, 2009
To build scalable BizTalk solutions, you should treat your orchestrations like functions in code Instead of building one massive process, you can break logic
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EDIFACT Encoding – EDI Character Set Support
Sandro Pereira
Aug 15, 2009
In the world of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), the way data is encoded is just as important as the data itself In BizTalk Server, if your pipeline
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Debug maps in BizTalk 2006/2006 R2 and in BizTalk 2009
Sandro Pereira
Aug 7, 2009
This is a great feature that, in most cases, is overlooked, because maps can become very large, to the point that it is difficult to read, very difficult to
