BizTalk Azure Adapters

BizTalk Azure Adapters

BizTalk Azure Adapters SDK 1.0 provides the capabilities to BizTalk Server 2009 to Integrate on-premise application with cloud based applications and services running on Windows Azure Platform.

SDK 1.0 is capable to connect on-premise application with Azure Live Framework and .Net Services.

BizTalk Adapter for .Net Services can Send\Receive messages.

BizTalk Adapter for Live Mesh can Receive Notifications and Mesh Objects.

Adapters can be downloaded here.

BizTalk Server 2009 HIPAA 5010 Schema Pack

BizTalk HIPAA 5010 Schema pack hotfix has been released from Microsoft under the TAP program.

Please follow the instruction in read me document before installing the setup.

HIPAA 4010/5010 Support in BizTalk Server 2009

HIPAA Accelerator which was available as an add-in for BizTalk Server 2006/R2 is now available as a EDI feature out of the box in BizTalk Server 2009.

BizTalk Server 2009 supports HIPAA 4010 schemas. Microsoft is working on a hotfix release to support HIPAA 5010.

BizTalk Server 2009 Release

Microsoft has officially announced BizTalk Server 2009 release date, 1st May 2009.

XML Comments Documentation Builder

Documenting the code is part of the Software Development Life Cycle. There are many ways to document APIs. Visual Studio XML comments provide an option to document the code (Modules, Class, Interfaces, and Methods) in-line. These comments can be extracted from the code to generate a HTML(.chm) file.

Below are some of the Documenter tools

·Sandcastle- This tool provides high customization but does not have GUI capabilities. Sandcastle can be used along with Sandcastle Help File Builder to have a power of GUI. This is highly recommended as this is supported by Microsoft.

Download Link:

Sandcastle: http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle
Sandcastle Help File Builder: http://www.codeplex.com/SHFB

· Doxygen- This is yet another tool for document builder.
MoreInfo:
http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/

·NDoc: This tool is “obsolete”. As they have not updated the tool long time.

BizTalk Hot Rod Issue 6

BizTalkers,
BizTalk Hot Rod Issue 6 is out today. Here is a link for BizTalk Hot Rod Magazine Issue 6 to download. I see my friend Alex's article on the magazine published :)

Remove Orchestration Instances

Not able to remove Orchestration Instances from BizTalk Administration Console ?

If you are facing issues to Purge\Remove all Orchestration Instances in BizTalk, then there is one quick and dirty way to do it.
Execute the stored procedure msgbox_cleanup_logic.sql from the location $\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\Schema

Note: Microsoft doesn't recommend to use it on production server as this will delete all instances.