Some useful tools provided as open source
BizUnit - Framework for Automated Testing of Distributed Systems
http://bizunit.codeplex.com/
The adoption of an automated testing strategy is fundamental in reducing the risk associated with software development projects, it is key to ensuring that you deliver high quality software. Often, the overhead associated with developing automated tests is seen as excessive and a reason to not adopt automated testing.
BizUnit enables automated tests to be rapidly developed. BizUnit is a flexible and extensible declarative test framework targeted that rapidly enables the automated testing of distributed systems, for example it is widely used to test BizTalk solutions. BizUnit is fully extensible. Its approach is to enable test cases to be constructed from generic reusable test steps, test cases are defined in XML which allows them to be auto-generated and also enables the ‘fixing up’ of Url’s for different environments, e.g. test, staging and production environments. Defining test cases in XML enables test cases to be auto-generated.
BizTalk Server Pattern Wizard
http://patternwizard.codeplex.com/
The BizTalk Pattern Wizard is an extensible tool to help you capture, share, and reuse your orchestration best practices. By using the BizTalk Pattern Wizard, you can capture a best practice, turn it into a generalized and configurable pattern, and share that pattern with the rest of your team or the entire BizTalk community
Enterprise Service Bus Guidance
http://esb.codeplex.com/
The Microsoft ESB Guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns, practices, and a set of BizTalk Server and .NET components to simplify the development of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) on the Microsoft platform and to allow Microsoft customers to extend their own messaging.
BizTalk Adapter Wizard
http://biztalkadapterwizard.codeplex.com/
The BizTalk Adapter Wizard for BizTalk Server 2006 is a Visual Studio 2005 project wizard which creates all of the framework code for your custom BizTalk adapter. The adapter wizard is accessible from the Visual Studio menu: File - New - Project - BizTalk projects.
BizTalk Server 2006 Documenter
http://biztalkdocumenter.codeplex.com/
Creates compiled help files for a given BTS 2006 installation. This tool can be run on an ad-hoc basis using the UI or from the command line as a post build/deploy task to create a compiled help file describing a BTS 2006 installation. It will compile: BTS Host configuration, Send/Receive port configuration, Orchestration diagrams, Schema and Map content, Pipeline process flow, Adapter configuration, Rule engine vocabularies and policies, More… and publish them as compiled help files. Optionally you can embed custom HTML content and custom descriptions for all BTS artifacts to produce a more customized look and feel to the CHM output
BizTalk Server 2006 Orchestration Profiler
http://biztalkorcprofiler.codeplex.com/
Creates CHM report files illustrating the level of coverage for specified BizTalk orchestrations. This tool can be run to gain a consolidated view of orchestration tracking data for a specified period of time to help developers get an idea of how their orchestrations are being processed and how much coverage they are getting in their testing. In addition to simple coverage information the data presented helps to identify latency and code path exceptions by highlighting long running and error prone orchestration shapes which is key to effective performance testing.
MapCop
http://www.codeplex.com/MapCop
A program for testing BizTalk map files (.BTM) for a set of best practices.
BizTalk Sftp Adapter
http://sftpadapter.codeplex.com/
This adapter was developed for a customer who needed to transfer files independent from any choice of platform. Much concern for security, along with already invested infrastructure, where the main reasons for choosing Sftp before other protocols like Ftps.
BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter
http://biztalkscheduledtask.codeplex.com/
An Biztalk Server 2004/2006 in-process receive adapter that executes a prescribed task on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule. The adapter is configured entirely within Biztalk, all config is stored within the SSODB and can be exported and imported via binding files. The schedule capabilities are similar to those available with the Windows Scheduled Task Service
The TCP/IP Adapter for BizTalk Server 2006
http://btstcpip.codeplex.com/
The TCP/IP Adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 is a community adapter that was originally developed for healthcare customers in the UK
SDC Tasks
http://www.codeplex.com/sdctasks
The SDC Tasks are a collection of MSBuild tasks designed to make your life easier. You can use these tasks in your own MSBuild projects. You can use them stand alone and, if all else fails, you can use them as sample code.
MSBUILD Extension Pack
http://msbuildextensionpack.codeplex.com/
The *MSBuild Extension Pack 3.5.1.0* release provides a collection of over 230 MSBuild tasks.
Deployment Framework for BizTalk
http://biztalkdeployment.codeplex.com/
The Deployment Framework for BizTalk eliminates the pain associated with BizTalk application deployments, and goes far beyond BizTalk’s out-of-the-box deployment functionality. It also includes additional tools to enhance developer productivity, such as binding file management.
BizTalk Server Pipeline Component Wizard
http://btsplcw.codeplex.com/
A project meant to ease to development of pipeline components used within a BizTalk Server environment. Supports both C# and VB.NET
ContextAccessor Functoid
http://contextaccessor.codeplex.com/
This project is a sum between two functoids that get the Message Context Properties values using maps from a biztalk receive port or from an orchestration
BizTalk Packed Decimal Converter Functoid
BizTalk Functoids to convert from and to Packed Decimals
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
[200] What is Oslo and What is Dublin
Oslo: is the codename for Microsoft’s forthcoming modeling platform, this platform is a set of technical investments that aim to significantly simplify designing, building, managing and scaling service-oriented and composite applications that can span from the enterprise to the Internet.
Dublin: is an application server which offer out of the box scalability and provides a centralized management, and will extend Internet Information Services (IIS) to provide a standard host for applications that use workflow or communications. it's almost a BizTalk server without Message Box, BizTalk is an integration Server while Dublin is an Application Server. Dublin will provide a content base message and message base correlation and forwarding services it will use the same BizTalk Adapters and any custom adapter will be available for both BizTalk and the incoming product Dublin. Dublin will host stateful workflow applications and it will be fully supported by Oslo. Dublin will first become available after the release of the .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
[200] How to Install the Oracle Client for Oracle BizTalk Adapter
If you are trying to use Microsoft BizTalk adapter for Oracle database, then you MUST install the Oracle Client before operating the Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for Oracle.
Steps to Install the Oracle Client:
1- Locate Oracle Client install directory, and run setup.exe
2- Wait few seconds until a console windows appear.
3- Accept Welcome Screen, and click Next
4- From the installation type, select Custom
5- From Available Product Components, select “Oracle Windows Interface” Components: select the following
providers:
6- Accept Installation Summary page and click Install
7-Wait until the installing the oracle components
8- On End of Installation page click Exit
Sunday, February 8, 2009
[600] BizTalk 2009 Packed Decimal Converter Functoid
to install and use Packed Decimal functoids:
1- Using VS 2008, Compile the component or download the compiled .dll. you can find sourcecode under: http://www.codeplex.com/PackedDecimalCtvr/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx while you can find the compiled code under: http://www.codeplex.com/PackedDecimalCtvr/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=22917
2- Copy the compiled .dll into \Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009\Developer Tools\Mapper Extensions or D:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\Developer Tools\Mapper Extensions if you have BizTalk 2006
3- GAC the compiled .dll file “BizTalk.Mapper.CustomComponents.Converters.dll”
4- Install the packed decimal functoids to your Visual Studio, right click your functoid, from the right menu choose “Choose Item”
5- Functoids should be Conversion under [Conversion Functoids]
6- Drag the proper functoid to your map, use [Configure Functoid Inputs] to insert pad length and float point position 
7- Test output
Monday, February 2, 2009
[200] What's New In BizTalk 2009
Microsoft has renamed the next version of BizTalk previously known as BizTalk Server 2006 R3 to BizTalk Server 2009 and published a detailed roadmap for the product. and here is what i found changed:
The following component/feature has been deprecated and no longer available:
- HWS Design Tools
- Human Workflow Services Runtime Components
- Human Workflow Services Base Assemblies
- Human Workflow Service Administration Tools
- BAS Schema Editor Extension
- BizTalk Message Queuing
- Deployment Wizard
- Health and activity monitoring tool (Moved to BTS Admin Console)
- VS ExplorerUI (BizTalk Explorer)
- Web Services Publishing wizard (ASMX)
- Line of Business Adapters for SAP/Oracle DB/Siebel
- The old SQL Server Adapter
- Base EDI Adapter(exists as Standard EDI Adapter)
- BTS Accelerator for HIPAA (exists as EDI feature)
- Web Services Enhancements adapter WSE (Replaced by WCF)
- MSMQt Adapter (newMSMQ adapter)BTSDeploy.exe Utility (replaced by BTSTask.exe)
Add Web Reference has been deprecated in Visual Studio 2008 and it has been replaced with “Add Service Reference” that’s will be applied also to the BizTalk 2009 projects.
New options when adding new resources using the BizTalk 2009 Administration tool, "Make visible to COM components (regasm)" and "Register service components (regsvcs).
Map Debugging
New Web Services Registry UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, Integration) includes a UDDI 3.0 registry which provides support for registry affiliation, extended discovery services, digital certificates and extensibility for a subscription API
New Administration Change, two new query has been added to compensate the HAT for tracked message events and tracked service event
New Messaging Changes
- Recoverable interchange (XMLValidator, map – SuspendMessageOnMappingFailure property)
- Choose the transaction isolation level in the WCF-Custom Send Adapter
Support for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Support for Windows Server 2008 , and for sure support for the Hyper-V virtualization that provide the meaning of reducing the costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus providing a dynamic IT infrastructure
Support for Team Foundation Server (TFS), now the development teams can automate builds, bug tracking, Project Server integration, source control and team development support
Standard used for creating Web service registries
Provide new ESB Guidance plugins inside Visual Studio 2008, ESB Guidance 2.0 that is used for applying ESB usage patterns, improved itinerary processing, itinerary modeling using a visual Domain Specific Language (DSL) tools approach also it comes with enhanced ESB management portal.
BizTalk 2009 has the same failover clustering capabilities as Windows Server 2008 for greater reliability
Enhanced Business Activity Monitoring , the combination of BizTalk 2009 and SQL 2008 provide support for UDM cubes and scalable real-time aggregations which enhances support for Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007
- BizTalk RFID extended to Mobile Devices
- Support for key industry standards
- Enables using new readers with LLRP (Low Level Reader Protocol)
- Machine readable tag data standards (TDT for EPC)
- Web Services for device management and Discovery, Configuration, Initialization (DCI)
- WS Discovery and partial EPCIS support
Enhanced support for SWIFT
New Adapters:
- Oracle E-Business Suites
- SQL Server (much improved over the existing SQL adapter)
Host Integration Server 2009 & BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems (BAHS) 2.0
- New WCF WebSphere MQ channel to integrate directly with WebSphere MQ
- New WCF Service for Host Applications has been added to expose the traditional Transaction Integrator to .NET Framework developers
- Support for the most recent versions of CICS, IMS, CICS HTTP transport, DB2, DB2/400, DB2 Universal Database, and WebSphere MQ
Sunday, February 1, 2009
[400] Deploy a New Version of a BizTalk Application to Run Side-by-side with an Existing Version
Purpose: Deploy two or more versions of BizTalk application to run side by side at the run Reason:
- Used to deploy newer version of a Long Running orchestrations.
- Production soft lunching Having more than a version of BizTalk application to run on production Server
Apply To: BizTalk 2006, BizTalk 2009
Steps:
- Use visual studio to make the required updates
- Increment the version number for each used assembly, use the most significant two digits x.x.x.x such like (1.0.0.0) to (1.1.0.0)
- Compile your project and don’t use Visual Studio to deploy the newly created version
- Use Microsoft BizTalk Administration Tools to deploy you new changes
- Use same ports to Bind your orchestrations
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