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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