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Use the Value Mapping functoid to allow a Boolean value to control whether another value gets mapped.

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An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot create a connection to data source 'xxx'. (rsErrorOpeningConnection) For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors

Biztalk Server 2009 R2 is planned to be released in 2010
It is supposed to include Support for:
1. Visual Studio 2010
2. SQL Server 2008 R2
3. Windows Server 2008 R2
http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/roadmap.aspx
 

What is the WCF SQL Adapter?
The BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 now contains five system and data adapters including SAP, Siebel, Oracle databases, Oracle applications, and SQL Server. What are these adapters and how are they different than the adapters available for previous version of BizTalk?

1. How do you call a Non-Serializable .Net helper class inside an Expression Shape?
To call a Non-Serializable .Net helper class inside an Expression Shape in Biztalk Orchestration do the following:
Step1: Add a Reference to the .Net Helper class
Step 2: Add an Atomic Scope to the Orchestration
Step 3: Ensure the Orchestration is Long Running Transactional

 
When it comes to testing your BizTalk applications, NUnit and BizUnit are often used. Where NUnit is a unit-testing framework for .NET languages, BizUnit can be used for testing your BizTalk 2004/2006 solutions. This article describes which tools need to be installed and helps you to setup your first test project.
 

Biztalk basically has two Port types.

1. Receive Ports

2. Send Ports.

Now these two ports can have different message exchange patterns for sending and receiving mesages. Like both Receive and Send Ports can have One-Way or Two-Way Patterns.

If they have Two-Way Patterns, they can be further classified into Request-Response or Solicit-Response as follows:

Two-way message exchange pattern on a Receive Port (In-bound) is referred to as Request-Response.

Unit Test Error: Visual Studio 2008

Strong-name signed assemblies must specify a public key token in their InternalsVisibleTo declarations

Here is a list of resources on SQL Server Best Practices from Microsoft.

Following a Best Practice saves lots of head-aches and frustrations. Be a smart Developer.

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