.Net Meanderings

I've just read on Jeff Lynch's blog that the WSE 2.0 adapter has been released - wahoo!

At last we get fully fledged security with BizTalk web service integration

I was teaching Essential BizTalk 2004 in LA this week and I promised my students I'd post some useful website and blogs on my blog. So I quickly knocked up a web page with stuff I find useful. I'll add to it as time goes on. You can see it here.

Another question on the BizTalk Orchestration newsgroup has prompted me to write another sample. This one implements an adder webservice using a request/response receive port and a map to perform the processing. You can get it here.

You will need to run the web service publishing wizard on the assembly to create the actual webservice.

In a recent post on a BizTalk newsgroup, someone was asking how they combine three messages into one. Although you can do this with a map it can be messy. A message assignment shape is much more flexible. You can pass the messages to a .NET method as XmlDocument references and return the combined message as an XmlDocument. I have created a sample that demonstrates this here.

A question came up on a Microsoft BizTalk newsgroup asking how you call the XMethods Currency Exchange Rate web service. I knocked up this demo to show how to do it.

I've just seen that Jon has posted a couple of tips for BizTalk development. Just to add my tuppence, Adding

GACUtil -i

as an external tool to VS.NET really helps when you have those situations when you have changed the implementation of part of an orchestration but haven't added any new ports, pipelines, etc. When combined with RestartBT.BAT (from Jon's post) which you can also put as an external tool, it saves a bunch of time unbinding, undeploying, redeploying and re-binding the orchestration.