Support for integration with IBM Mainframe and AS 400 is often mentioned as a key feature of BizTalk. And as many of these system are still in use, the knowledge of these adapters should be widely spread; -but unfortunately it is not. In fact, it has...

Apparently, this post has no relevance to BizTalk or any related technology… While under the influence of alcohol. Kent Weare had me convinced we should have this ridiculous bet (but it seamed reasonable at  the time), where if Sweden would win the...

Hotfix for resolving issues with references between projects: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=977428 Hotfix for problem with orchestrations saying “The expression that you have entered is not valid.” when they are in fact valid: http://support.microsoft...

By clicking the    icon above you can have the content of the blog post to be read back to you. Not a very useful feature perhaps, but I thought it was pretty cool. The feature is provided by ReadSpeaker and is easy to implement. First, register...

I've published a couple of example StreamInsight queries, input adapters and outputadapters on CodePlex. These examples use sample stock market historical data from 2009 and show how to run StreamInsight in Explicit, Implicit and Observable mode as...

I’ve seen several posts of how to add .cs files to your VS2008 BizTalk projects ( Yossi has a good post ), but none of them shows how to use them, which is not that obvious. First of all, you can not use classes defined in the same project as the orchestration...

The webcast is moved to Cloudcast.net . Overview: MSDN Devcenter Download: Download from CodePlex.com For more information: Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 1) How to install: Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 2) BBW Drill Down: Benchmark your BizTalk...

I have just sat thru a very good webcast called “Road Map for BizTalk Server: Business Automation and Integration Server”, presented by Sudhir Hasbe . For those who have seen the presentation concerning the road ahead for BizTalk at from PDF09 there was...

The Host adapters is a very significant part of BizTalk. However, the knowledge about them are almost absent, which is unfortunate as they should be quite useful. A quick study among our biggest clients shows that many of them are still using mainframe...

StreamInsight is one of the main news of SQL Server 2008 R2. It's a platform for Complex Event Processing (CEP) that enables processing of high speed event streams using familiar tools such as Visual Studio, C# and LINQ. CEP is a technology that is...

Algorithmic Trading is automated trading done by computer programs (algorithms) that react to patterns in financial market data or financial news. As of 2009, high frequency trading firms accounted for 73% of all US equity trading volume. Several different...

During the fall of 2009 I teamed up with fellow MVP Mikael Håkansson and delivered internal training to Logica employees in Sweden. Training in part based upon existing training material from Microsoft but with presentation material that we made especially...

This is quite old, however very useful so I thought I would share it. Also I need to “get on the ball” and post something on my blog. So, you try to delete a dll-file and get the error “could not delete the file because it is used by another process”...

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft opened up their Codename "Dallas" website . The service is by invitation only, but there is a mail address on their site where you can ask for an invitation code. What is Codename "Dallas"? - It is...

This post describes the installation process for the BizTalk Benchmark Wizard application. For more information read part 1 . The complete installation will include the following components: BizTalk Benchmark wizard – The client tool from which you will...