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I came across a great little online Regex builder at http://txt2re.com/. It takes the chore out of looking everything up in my reference book. It also has a code generator for just about every major language.

By now, I am sure everyone knows that .Net Reflector is no longer freely available. Because of this, the SharpDevelop team has taken it upon themselves to cook up an open source alternative ILSpy. I have been using ILSpy for the past couple of weeks. It doesn’t have the same plugin system and some of…
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In case anyone is looking for the BizTalk Terminator application, I just realized that the old link (http://biztalksupport.mslivelabs.com/publish.htm) no longer works and that the new, maybe temporary, link can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalkcpr/archive/2009/10/01/biztalk-terminator-download-install-info.aspx This tool can be pretty helpful when trying to cleanup CRUFT. In addition, there are also a handful of helpful performance tuning scripts…
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There is a registry setting that can be changed for BizTalk server which allows you to configure the timeout for asynchronous calls using the MLLP adapter. This was originally posted as a hotfix for earlier editions of BizTalk and the details can be found here. This setting is especially valuable for systems needing high throughput….
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I wrote up a quick sample application that converts .Net objects into XDocuments using XmlSerializer. This code is not perfect and I can imagine that objects that contain circular references will blow up. DataContractSerialization may be a better option for that. More information on de/serialization at Microsoft. For converting XmlDocument to XDocument, I used some…
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I received a request to help reconfigure a BizTalk server and point it to a new BizTalk group and reconfigure the BizTalk HL7 Accelerator to use the new SQL Server as well. Reconfiguring the Primary BizTalk server went as smooth as to be expected, but when we went to reconfigure the BizTalk server, we ran…
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One of our clients was experiencing a weird issue when developing a custom pipeline component. In their case, they were making a custom pipeline using the HL7 Disassembler and Assembler pipeline components. This component has a property of “Allow Trailing Delimiter” which is defaulted to False. Everything looked good until we deployed to BizTalk and…
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If you are installing BizTalk in a multi-server environment, you may receive the error: WMI WMI error description is generated: Exception of type ‘System.EnterpriseServices.TransactionProxyException’ was thrown. If you receive this error, please follow the instructions here to configured MSDTC on all of the servers that will be participating in the BizTalk group. How to Enable…
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When a message fails to send, it becomes suspended in a service instance. If ordered delivery is enabled, all subsequent messages will also become suspended and queued in that same service instance, even if they would not have failed otherwise. This is an issue because if you terminate the service instance, all the messages, even…
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