Microsoft has released BizTalk Server 2010 for RTM. New features include support for the latest releases of Microsoft products (.Net 4.0, SQL Server 2008 R2) and a new Mapper. The new mapper is excellent and can greatly simplify the appearance of complex mapping. You can download it from the Developer Center here: BizTalk Downloads.
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Jean-Paul Laurenceau > MedQuest Associates
“I saw a return on my investment two-days into my training. I was able to add value to my work environment the following week; utilizing the tools and understanding I gained from class to implement a solution for my company’s Biztalk/HL7 needs.”
Tim Hobbs > ACS Health Management Solutions
“Michael Stonis and Lee Prosch were instrumental in improving our understanding of HL7 and related technologies where they intersected with BizTalk. They also introduced us to XDS and the IHE profiles that have been particularly useful in the interconnection of multiple EMR systems connected with the BizTalk server.”
BizTalk HL7 Performance Configurations
Listed below are a few links that I have found for making BizTalk HL7 Accelerator performance configurations. This information is often very hard to find and I do not believe that Microsoft has any specific documentation on this topic. The first link is from BizTalk Hotrod magazine and it details the HL7 accelerator in depth….
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BizTalk – Applying MSI Unconfigures Application
I have come across this issue a few times. If you create an MSI that has only assemblies in it and then apply it to a BizTalk application, there is a chance that it may unconfigure some of your ports or orchestrations. The reason that this happens is because BizTalk tries to apply a previously…
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BizTalk Contained a Null Value at the End of the Construct Block Fix
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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How To ID an Orchestration Programatically
Sometimes you need to uniquely identifying an object that calls into your assembly. For instance, you may want to record the name of each calling application name or orchestration name and record that information to a SQL database. For Auditing purposes, this can be crucial. Capturing your assembly name from an orchestration is pretty straight…
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Hotfix for BizTalk 2009 / Visual Studio 2008 Integration issues
If you have spent any length of time working with BizTalk server 2009, chances are you’ve probably come across number of issues with Visual Studio 2008 integration. For instance, project references between BizTalk projects raises unexplainable design-time errors in your orchestration files. These errors sometimes go away mysteriously if you recompile or resave associated files. Very annoying…
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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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BizTalk MLLP Adapter Fails to Call Custom Pipeline Hotfix
There is a bug in the MLLP adapter for BizTalk 2006 through 2009 which causes the second transaction on a two-way port to not call custom pipeline components correctly. Here is a quick scenario. A request-response receive location is setup and configured to use the mllp adapter for receiving messages. A custom pipeline, in my…
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