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Finally cleared the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 certification. 🙂
You can download the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 VHS from here and BizTalk EAI and EDI tutorials in MSDN. As well as you can download the BizTalk Server 2010 labs from this link.
you can find more details about how to prepare for the exam from soa thoughts blog.
You can find Biz Talk Server 2010 online virtual labs here
MSDN virtual labs for Microsoft products:
AppFabric gives us a single unified view of the cache for distributed applications. Just read about this in MSDN.
Key Features of AppFabric (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/cc645013.aspx)
how to install and configure AppFabric : http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CategoryView.aspx?category=AppFabric
you can read more details on this from my colleagues blog : http://abdulrafaysbiztalk.wordpress.com/
This is a Visaul Studio .NET 2008 add in that we can use to generate data contracts of a schema (XSD types). Earlier we were using the XSD2Code generater to generate our contracts but it lacks some features such as ordering, etc. In that case we have to do those modifications manually. Finally the WSCF.blue is a good tool and we don’t have to do anything manually. Using the wizard we can accomplish what we need.
you can download the tool from codeplex.
I couldn’t find the Orchestration Files template in VS 2008 when i tried to do some testing projects today. It was there and couldn’t understand why it did disappeared suddenly.
without the orchestration templates :
just run the command using the Visual Studio 2008 command prompt : devenv /installvstemplates to reinstall your templates for VS 2008.
after running the above command :
Suddenly I was unable to create BizTalk projects or even I was unable to open existing BizTalk projects in my machine. Visual Studio Team System 2008 started getting strucked when I started to do so. I checked the event log and there was no events at all something related to VS 2008. But when I googled in some forum posts in MSDN says that when Visual Studio 2008 is repaired or when a Visual Studio 2008 update is installed, the value of the following registry entry is changed from csproj;btproj to csproj:
Location of those registry entries as below:
For you to resolve the error just Update Value data in the Edit String dialog box to include the btproj project extension in addition to the csproj. So the finally entry in the value data should be csproj;btproj.
But in my case the registry entry was okay and correct.
So finally decided it may due to some corrupted installation files and just repaired the BizTalk installation. Finally I was able to open all my BizTalk and new BizTalk projects without any hassle anymore. J
so i started blogging for 2011 🙂
Well i sat for the MCTS 70-235 (Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006) exam yesterday and glad to inform that i have passed. mmm.. with regard to the paper, most of the questions were related to BAM, BRE, deploying a BizTalk application, debugging BizTalk applications (ex: debugging orchestration, etc), some of them related to schema creation (ex: minoccurs, validating a schema, etc), role links and general BizTalk questions.
Before sitting for the exam just go through the sarvanas’ preparation diary. It helped me a lot in addition to the following Apress and Wrox eBooks :
When you tried to configure BizTalk after the successful installation, if you prompted for an error like the one mentioned above, Execute the following command in Visual Studio command prompt.
explore to the following folder:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727>
and run the following command :
RegAsm.exe “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Enterprise Single Sign-On\SSOSQL.dll”
Note : As i am using the Windows 2008 R2 Server, i had to explore to the Framework64 folder.
Throughout last few months i had a chance to work with AS400, Equation APIs. The purpose of these equations calls are that we have to develop WCF services on top of these API calls. These calls will be consumed by the BizTalk. Initially it was too hard as i couldn’t find any resources online. When i searched in gOOgle about the errors which come across at the time of developments, it does not return anything! It was some hard times and thank for my team lead for helping out on those situations. Hope to write something about AS400, C# in coming days…
What is an AS400?
The AS/400 (Application System/400) was introduced by IBM on June 20th, 1988. Some of AS400 models are designed as Servers, while others are used as terminals or “display stations”. OS400 is the operating system for the AS/400.
In October of 2000, IBM rebranded the AS/400 and announced its name as the IBM iSeries 400. AS400 uses RPG (Report Program Generator) as its own programming language. Initially the RPG originated as a report-building program used in DEC and IBM minicomputer operating systems and evolved into a fully procedural programming language.
Here is the lovely interface of Equation.
As the starting point refer following links :
http://www.netsplore.com/PublicPortal/Default.aspx?tabid=246
http://www.netsplore.com/PublicPortal/Blog/tabid/284/EntryID/13/Default.aspx
After long time i had to refresh my knowledge about deploying a BizTalk application. I did all these things some time back and totally forgot the things what i did. Anyhow after developing a small orchestration sample in VS 2008, i tried deploying the application. It successfully deploys but i couldn’t see the Application in the Biz Talk Administration Console. totally confused and was searching for the deployed Application name after restarting the service for one, two, three times. I had to make sure is that the schema, map were deployed or not. When i checked in the All Artifacts node, so i was able to find my schema, map were deployed successfully.
So after that i had to check the properties of the BizTalk project what i did developed in VS. When i checked the properties so the Application Name was empty.
In this case at the time of deploying, VS automatically deploys the application as “BizTalk Application 1” and when i checked the maps, schema folders, all my files were deployed there.
so i had to insert a name for the Application Name in VS 2008 and had to redeploy it again. At the time of deploying VS prompts you saying that the DLL is already deployed. What you have to do is remove the assembly from the GAC (C:\Windows\Assembly) and as well as the orchestration, map and schema files from the BizTalk Administrator Console. Once its done try to deploy it again and finally it was deployed successfully. 🙂
Biztalk poster (Silverlight enabled) –
Check this out :
http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/capabilities/reader/ .
Scroll/Zoom + click on a section where the help and various MSDN articles come up. really helpful for us. 🙂
Currently i was working with some BizTalk test projects using a Virtual Machine installed with Windows 2003. I have installed BizTalk 2006 in the same machine in which i was doing some SharePoint projects. For me to install BizTalk 2006 i had to install DNS and the Active Directory. Prior to installing this BizTalk, SharePoint was working fine without giving me any headache.
After installing BizTalk it started to give me problems when i tried to access the SharePoint Central Administration. It prompted me for Service Unavailable error, Grr rrrr (at that time i was thinking if i need to redo these things again such as installing windows 2003 in a new virtual machine, after that installing DNS, installing Active Directory, installing MOSS 2009 and installing BizTalk 2009 – it will waste my time for sure).
So i know it was due to the installation of the Active Directory and i had to reset the permission in Application Pools in IIS (go to IIS, browse Application Pools and select your Application => right click and go to properties => from there select the Identity Tab and change the User Name and accordingly change the password.
Once its over when i tried to browse for SharePoint sites another error was prompting me saying “Some or all identity references could not be translated” (Hard Luck). So i was searching to resolve this problem. so Finally the utility STSADM was there to help us. You can find this tool under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN and just execute this command by replacing the proper login with the domain name followed by the password.
"stsadm.exe -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin domainname\username –password yourpassword "
Once you executed the above command please make sure to do iisreset –noforce
Hurray!!! now everything works fine without any hassle. Hassle free of life.
Make sure to re-run the SharePoint Products and Technologies wizard once the above said steps are finished.
guys for more information please refer this URLs:
http://www.neilrichards.net/blog/?p=73
http://coolsubhash-tech.blogspot.com/2007/05/some-or-all-identity-references-could.html
when i was working with biztalk orchestration, there was an error prompted at the time when i did the deployment : “
Error 1 Failed to add resource(s). Resource (-Type=”System.BizTalk:BizTalkAssembly” -Luid=”BizTalkServerTestProjectAmmar, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=dda761d103beeac0″) is already in store and is either associated with another application or with another type. 0 0 “
I thought we should just deploy the way that we are doing with other applications. But when researched about this if we didn’t specify any value for the Application Name in the Deployment properties page, then VS used to deploy the orchestration in BizTalk Server named with BizTalk Application 1.
To overcome the above said error i had to remove the resource file located under Resources folder as below:
once its done, the orchestration was deployed in the BizTalk Server successfully. 🙂
To avoid this in future, set explicitly deployment target application in the Visual Studio project properties by: right click – Configuration properties – Deployment – Application Name.
Simply we can say the BizTalk is a Messaging Based Integration Tool and uses XML as the common data exchange language for eCommerce and application integration in the WWW.
In other words we can say that BizTalk is the main interface in between multiple systems and based on some definitions we can say as “BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s central platform for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Business Process Management (BPM) and embodies the integration and automation capabilities of XML and Web Services technologies. BizTalk Server functions as a process execution engine and as a multi-transport hub for messaging and document transformations. It is a Windows Server System product that helps customers efficiently and effectively integrate systems, employees and trading partners”.
you can understand what is happening inside BizTalk by viewing the following animated jpeg file :
if you can’t view the animation please do not hesitate to click this link:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4127256189_0da73842e3_o.gif
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