BizTalk : How To : Call .Net Component inside Biztalk mapper using XSLT call template PART 2

post by  Richard Seroter A problem I mentioned was that the member variable in the class that the map was calling seemed to be getting shared amongst execution instances. Each map creates a sequential page number in the XSLT and puts it into the destination XML. However, I’d see output where the first message had pages “1..3..5..7..8″...

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BizTalk : How To : Call .Net Component inside Biztalk mapper using XSLT call template PART 1

post by  Richard Seroter I encountered a particularly tricky multi-part mapping scenario. I had to build a destination message that contained groupings from the two source messages. Each record in the first source message created a destination node, and each record in the second source message created a destination node directly beneath the related first source record. To make matters tougher, every destination record...

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BizTalk : How To : Save suspended messages in BizTalk Vb Script

Last week, I needed to save 700+ suspended messages to file. I didn’t want to go in to each instance and click ‘save to file’ 700 times. A quick search in the web did not find what I want, however there were a number of articles about extracting messages from the BizTalk tracking database. One of which is this excellent article by Thiago Almeida. My scenario was for an existing BizTalk 2004 implementation in the company...

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BizTalk : How To : Map Repeating Sequence Elements

source: paul petrov Repeating sequence groups can often be seen in real life XML documents. It happens when certain sequence of elements repeats in the instance document. Here's fairly abstract example of schema definition that contains sequence group: <xs:schema xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003"            xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"            xmlns="NS-Schema1"            targetNamespace="NS-Schema1" >   <xs:element name="RepeatingSequenceGroups">     <xs:complexType>       <xs:sequence maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0">         <xs:sequence maxOccurs="unbounded">           <xs:element name="A" type="xs:string" />           <xs:element name="B" type="xs:string" />           <xs:element name="C" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />         </xs:sequence>       </xs:sequence>     </xs:complexType>   </xs:element> </xs:schema> And...

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BizTalk : Q&A : Read Repeating Namepair values using XSLT for-each

Q: Hi i have a strange issue with matching specific attribute of xml node. Example code that doesnt work: <xsl:for-each select="../../unit/service/price/season[@name=$period_name]"> <xsl:attribute name="std_bed_price"> <xsl:value-of select="../@amount"/> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:for-each> Example code that DOES work but i don't like this way too much: <xsl:for-each select="../../unit/service/price/season"> ...

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BizTalk Highly Available Installation with Scale Out Configuration

scale out configuration for highly available server farm Source: MSDN To provide high availability for the BizTalk Server databases, configure two computers that are running SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005 in a Windows cluster. These computers can run in an active/active, active/passive, or active/active/passive (requires...

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