BizTalk 2020 allows you to connect it to an Application Insights instance, where it will send tracking data as customEvents so you see what's going on. However, getting it working in an environment where security is important and the network team want to open the fewest paths through the firewall as possible is an …

I recently started working on a new Logic App for a customer using the Enterprise Integration Pack for Visual Studio 2015, I was greeted with a familiar sight, the schema generation tools from BizTalk, but with a new lick of paint The Logic App requires the use of Flat File schemas, so I knocked up a schema from the …

As with previous versions of BizTalk Server, you can perform the installation using the GUI or a command-line. To use the command-line installation, you’ll need the list of features that can be installed to add to the /AddLocal command-line. The available documentation for a silent installation of BizTalk Server at …

I’m sure many BizTalk developers who create custom pipeline components will have run into this problem. You create a custom pipeline component, deploy it, and something doesn’t quite work. Back into Visual Studio and make some code fixes, looks good and redeploy. Test your fix only to find your changes don’t appear to …

BizTalk provides a us a way of generating schemas from c# classes by using the xsd.exe tool which comes with the BizTalk SDK. The tool also allows us to generate c# classes from a schema and as an option we can specify the runtime namespace for the generated types. What would be nice is if we could specify the target …

Thanks to everyone who sat and listened to my presentations on BizTalk RFID, ESB and ISB. I hope that you found them useful. As promised here are the links: Biztalk RFID : http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/rfid.aspx Blue C Sushi : http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=201405 ESB Guidance …

What is Oslo all about? According to Microsoft's Burley Kawasaki at Architect Insight, Oslo is a new way to build connected applications where services are extended from client to cloud and models become the mainstream part of development. Oslo is not a product but a way of working. …