Once in a while, as a BizTalk developer, you will have a need to run an XML transformation via a BizTalk map where you have one or more source messages that will need to spit out a single message. Unfortunately, the BizTalk Mapper tool doesn’t exactly offer a very friendly way of 1) creating maps [...]
While perusing some online message boards during the week, I noticed there was a pattern of BizTalk developers asking how to use the Database Lookup Functoid within their maps. I decided to throw together this post covering the functoid, as well as how one may use it within a map, assigned to a send port [...]
I recently jumped back onto the keto diet this past week and decided to make a conscious effort to rid my body of the fat that I’ve been lugging around for so long. Aside from just living life in general, I figured that I needed to make a change in my health patterns, since I [...]
Project Management is something that we all perform in one way or another, in work and in personal life. My current role at the office has me wearing the PM hat a bit more than the actual developer hat, so it only makes sense that I place some focus on the PM side of my [...]
One of the key features of BizTalk Server is message routing when it comes to moving data around within your application, or messaging architecture. When a transaction comes into the BizTalk world, in most cases, the desired result to so send that transaction elsewhere. Sure, you can *shudder*…hard code… the placement of a message, or use [...]
One of the recent challenges a colleague of mine had brought to me was related to publishing outbound messages and supporting property promotion to route each message accordingly. The approach taken was to execute a loop within the orchestration, that would split out one incoming EDI message into multiples messages, apply a transformation and publish the [...]
As mentioned in my blog reboot post, one of the topics I cover on this blog is BizTalk development ideas and sharing solutions that I use in my day-to-day project construction (I dislike the term, “coding” as solution development isn’t always about writing code). I threw together the shell of the solution that I’ll be [...]
I’m not one to brag about anything I’ve ever accomplished in my life, but at the same time, I’m not really one that believes in luck when you excel in something that you actually enjoy. However, I’m one of those “lucky” guys that ended up landing a career in a subject that I was interested in [...]
I’ve owned this domain for going on thirteen years now, and I’ve lost count on how may times I’ve rebooted the overall content here. I started out just writing about life in general once I purchased the domain and after several months of doing so, I grew bored of it, mainly due in part that [...]
Hey, that's me! I'm Rich Wallace and as a Microsoft Certified Application Developer, husband, father and blogger, I share my insights and experiences with others on life, career and anything else on my mind. Read more about me here.
