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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Genuine Basil

The year 2012 has almost come to an end. Community wise it has been a fantastic year for BizTalk Server. Numerous new articles on the TechNet Wiki, blog posts on BizTalk 2013 (previously 2010 R2), and BizTalk related events taking place around the world. All of this is made possible by BizTalk community members. Genuine Basil is one of them and the following story is on him. Genuine Basil , 30 years of age, was born in Kerala (an Indian state, also known as " God's Own Country "). He migrated to Australia 2 years ago and is living with his beautiful wife Jis in Sydney . Genuine’s overall IT experience is around 9 years and he has worked with some of the reputed organizations like Accenture , Wipro and CSC . He currently works as consultant at Burch Technologies ,Sydney. Genuine has around 7 years’ experience in BizTalk and worked with all versions of the product starting from BizTalk 2004. His main area of expertise is BizTalk development. Besides that he is

Service Bus Messaging: Queues, SB-Messaging Adapter – Part II

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In my previous post I discussed sending messages to a Service Bus queue. These messages send to the queue are then picked up by the SB-Messaging Adapter for BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP, which is running in a VM on Windows Azure. BizTalk will then process these messages by inserting them into a table.  I used one client to send multiple messages to the queue. I measured the time it took to send messages to the queue not the time it took for BizTalk to insert each message in SQL Server 2008 R2 table. However, the latency between the queue and SQL Server 2008 R2 was relatively low. As soon as all the messages were sent the same amount of records were present in the table. Overall the performance is not bad when it comes to a few thousand messages. Latency and throughput are good. In this post I take a different approach. I will simulate a run with 10000 participants. The run is 15K and there are passing time marks at 5 and 10K. At 15K the finishing time will be registered. I will use mu

BizTalk Server 2013

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Many of you will have noticed or heard the buzz that the new BizTalk release will be called 2013 . It was not a surprise to me or a few others in the blogosphere. Mark Burch on his blog post in July already gave hints to the name or Johan Hedberg beginning of this year Why BizTalk Server 2010 R2 should be BizTalk Server 2013 . Anyways the name is now officially 2013. What will its beta bring us? Well you can find an overview on the BizTalk Server Team Blog. Basically it aligns with the new Microsoft Platform releases like Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012. Besides that you will find the enhancements in adapters, new adapters like the SB-Messaging, and ESB Toolkit integration (no separate download anymore). I downloaded the BizTalk 2013 beta and installed it on a new VM. I will not detail the complete installation and configuration here as it is a pretty straight forward experience as with the previous 2010 version. Do mind that the

BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Tomasso Groenendijk

BizTalk forums are an important platform for people to ask and/or answer questions, to start discussion and find solutions to their problems. The BizTalk forums are a part of the BizTalk Server Category in the MSDN forums. This category has a BizTalk Server General , BizTalk Server Adapters and Adapter Pack , BizTalk Server EDI and AS2 , BizTalk Server RFID , and BizTalk ESB Toolkit . I myself have been quite active in the BizTalk Server General and BizTalk Server Adapters and Adapter Pack. However, I am not the only one that is active. There are many others answering questions, which other people ask on these forums. My colleague from motion10 Tomasso Groenendijk is quite active in the ESB Toolkit forum. So today’s story is on him. Tomasso Groenendijk is a BizTalk consultant at motion10 . He is 40 years old and lives in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Tomasso specialized in the realization of applications based on the Microsoft technologies like BizTalk, C# and Web Services. T

Service Bus Messaging: Queues, SB-Messaging Adapter

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Like some of you I have been experimenting with the Service Bus Queues, Topics and subscriptions. The information from Microsoft gives you a straight forward insight how to send messages to queues , topics and subscriptions using .NET.  The first step to interact with the Service Bus Queues, Topics and subscriptions is by creating an account with Windows Azure through a trail or buy option . The next step is creating a service namespace through the Windows Azure Portal followed by obtaining the management credentials you need when setting up Service Bus Connection string.  To create a solution that can interact with the Service Bus you need to have a reference in your Visual Studio project to the Microsoft.ServiceBus.dll on your machine, which is a part of the Windows Azure SDK . In your code template (for instance C# form) you will add two using statements:   using Microsoft.ServiceBus; using Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging; Now everything is setup for coding your interaction wi