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Use Fiddler with BizTalk to monitor Incoming/Outgoing Traffic

Friday, June 7, 2013
Using Fiddler to debug BizTalk messages? When using HTTP, SOAP or WCF send ports it can be incredibly useful to view the content of messages that are sent on the wire. This allows you to inspect the headers (SOAP or HTTP). Fiddler is a simple but fantastic tool to allow you to do this. By default, Fiddler will not trace any messages sent to endpoints by BizTalk as it does not use WinInet. However, BizTalk send...
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Fix Huge Maps in BizTalk - change default behavior - Undocumented Fix

Wednesday, June 5, 2013
post by Brett I have been working with several industry standard Xml schema definitions, specifically those defined by the UBL standard by OASIS (www.oasis-open.org).  This organisation has a worthwhile, yet lofty, goal of defining a set of document standards that will cover the majority of communication needs for B2B. The result of trying to be all things to all men is that the schemas defined are big.  Like really,...
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Biz Talk : How To : Throw Custom Exception in Map

Monday, June 3, 2013
post by Brett I have run into an instance where I need to terminate and raise an exception from within an XSLT template, based on values (or lack thereof) within the source document.  The XSLT transform is running within a BizTalk map. The secret is the following little-known XSLT construct, which can be conditionally called at any point in the transform: <xsl:message terminate="yes">Custom error text</xsl:message> This...
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Run .bat and .ps cmd files from Visual Studio 2010 2008

Monday, June 3, 2013
post by Rick Glos: Visual Studio 2010 | 2012 You can use this technique to run windows command files with the .bat and .cmd extensions. Just as previously, we need to create at least one, and optionally two, external tools. One that terminates the window after executing. Here’s the values for you to copy+paste and screenshot. FieldValue TitleRun...
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