Integrating to the max...BizTalk Style

  If we look at the ESB toolkit, it allows for flexibility by several features, of them, I would like to explain three which I think need some clarification; Abstraction of your business process by defining these as building blocks, using them inside an Itinerary, which allows you to re-use these blocks Runtime Transformation instead of configuring this using In-Outbound maps / maps being called in Orchestrations Dynamic Endpoint resolution instead of setting this using a pipeline / orchestration in dynamic maps, or static send ports   If we look at the ESB Toolkit dynamic features, it builds on the Business Rule Engine, by providing Vocabularies;   Abstraction of your business process In this scenario, we can use the Business Rules Engine to determine which process to start. In classic BizTalk we do this in general, based on the MessageType. The ESB Toolkit, allows you to do this in a different way. You can basically, dynamically start your process based ...

Hereby some BizTalk gotchas, that got me, it’s a small compilation as I’m trying to group related subjects together, in future posts I’ll focus on MSMQ, ESB Toolkit and other stuff. Issue: Outputfile name is %sourcefilename% Is it, that…? Y ou have promoted the FILE.ReceivedFileName and configured the macro %SourceFileName%, however, this is CASE SENSITIVE! Issue: No processing takes place after a BRE call Is it, that…? You might be using a .Net helperclass, you’ve added the ‘StaticSupport’ following ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298814(v=bts.10).aspx ). This won’t work…the StaticSupport should be created under the WOW64Node Issue: Pipeline configuration change does not have any effect Is it, that…? You are using a dynamic send port…if so, stop/start the application-port Issue: Inside my orchestration, a variable assignments (from context properties) leads to an exception (missing property exception) Is it, that…? You are not assigning the variable fro...

So when you call a static method from a custom helperclass inside the BRE you must set the correct registry key. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\BusinessRules\3.0\StaticSupport (DWORD) MSDN Please be aware that this key can be found in the WOW6432Node and not directly under Microsoft\BusinessRules\3.0!!!   HTH,   Sander