A client called up today with a really odd error. the issue was on BizTalk 2006 and the HL7 accelerator. They had modified an orchestration and deployed their orchestration, but received the following error at the end of the orchestration: Inner exception: The part ‘MSHSegment’ of message ‘msgADT_A01_24_In’ contained a null value at the end…
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Posts Tagged: BizTalk Development
Preprocessor Directive Must Appear as the First Token on a Line Fix
I upgraded some BizTalk 2006 orchestrations today to BizTalk 2009 and came across this weird issue when I went to build the solution. preprocessor directive must appear as the first token on a line There were no issues shown in the orchestration designer, but the solution refused to build. If I double-clicked on the error…
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HL7 Accelerator Schema Versioning
One of the more frustrating curiosities I’ve encountered in developing HL7 solutions for BizTalk is the 1 schema rule for the HL7 Accelerator. Only 1 schema with the Microsoft namespace is allowed for a message type (i.e. only one http://microsoft.com/HealthCare/HL7/2X#ADT_A08_GLO_DEF ) in a BizTalk 2006 server group. This was true, even if the assemblies containing the schema…
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Dynamic Map Selection
Applying a map to an incoming message in a BizTalk orchestration requires a Construct shape and at least one Message Assignment shape. This is pretty straight forward. If you need to pick from several maps to transform an incoming message, it gets a little harder. You have to add a Decide shape with multiple branches…
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Orchestration "Retry" Pattern
One of the more difficult problems I’ve come across when working with BizTalk orchestrations in the past is what to do when communication with an external client fails. When a Send Port fails to connect after it’s configured number of try’s, for instance, an error message is generated by BTS. If you have not properly planned for…
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BizTalk Video Tutorials
As many times as I have read through the MSDN tutorials for BizTalk or scanned through my BizTalk development books, sometimes it is just nice to sit back and watch a video. I came across Cloud TV today from the BizTalk Developer Center. It looks like Alan Smith has created a new video tutorial site….
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BizTalk Tools
I get asked pretty frequently what tools that I use when doing BizTalk development. Surprisingly, there are quite a few available. Here is a list of the ones that I find myself using the most often. Let me know if you have come across anything else that didn’t make it here. Administration BizTalk Documenter Creates…
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