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BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By : Steef-Jan Wiggers
Book Image

BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By: Steef-Jan Wiggers

Overview of this book

BizTalk enables the integration and managment of automated business processes within or across organizational boundaries. To build a solid BizTalk solution, deploy a robust environment, and keep it running smoothly you sometimes need to broaden your spectrum, explore all possibilities, and choose the best solution for your purpose. By following the recipes in this book you will gain required knowledge and succeed in your implementation. With BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, you can leverage and hone your skills. More than 50 recipes will guide you in implementing BizTalk solutions, setting up a robust and well performing BizTalk environment, and choosing the right solution for monitoring it. As a developer or administrator you greatly benefit from taking these recipes to work. In this book a developer and administrator will see how to deploy, build, and maintain a BizTalk environment. How to apply patterns for robust orchestrations, messaging and testing. Administrators will learn to set up an environment using Microsoft best practices and tools to deliver a robust, performing and durable BizTalk environment. Besides setting up their environments administrators can also decide through a number of recipes how to monitor and maintain the environment. A developer can contribute to a healthy environment by implementing instrumentation in artefacts, applying well suited pattern(s) and testing the solutions built.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Tracing BizTalk applications using DebugView


With Log4Net and ETW, you are able to do event logging and see what happens in your BizTalk solution. Another option is to use DebugView to trace what is happening. DebugView is an application that lets you monitor the debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP. Its current version, at the time of writing this book, is 4.76, which supports 32 and 64 bits. The tool displays both kernel-mode and Win32 debug output, so you don't need a debugger to catch the debug output of your BizTalk applications, for example, when instrumenting it with Log4Net.

Getting ready

Download DebugView from Windows Sysinternals site (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647) and then unpack the ZIP file on your machine. For reference, you can download the source code (BTS.Cookbook.DebugView) belonging to this chapter.

How to do it...

Within your orchestration, expression shapes can be added that contain...