Using Windows Credentials in WCF-Custom adapter

When sending a message from BizTalk to an external WCF-service with Windows Credentials, the WCF-Custom adapter will ignore the credentials in the Credentials-tab and use the ones of the Host Instance.If you really need to use Windows Credentials, you'll need to create a custom Endpoint Behavior and add it to the WCF-Custom adapter.

Auto-generate class-file from an XSD

Autogenerate an class-file from an XSD every time you build your Visual Studio project with svcutil.

Configuring two-way SSL Authentication – Part 2

It’s time for the second part of my blog series about configuring 2way SSL Authentication using certificates in BizTalk. The first part of this blogpost introduces 2Way SSL Authentication and explains how to configure BizTalk as a client using the WCF Adapter.

Application startup performance

Read how a simple configuration setting can impact the startup time of your application dramatically and how to fix this using built-in WCF configuration.

Using a State Machine in Workflow manager to instrument a Twilio call

In this blog post, it is described how Workflow Manager State machines are used to instrument a phone call that is hosted through Twilio, an online service platform for phone and text communication.

BAM Pitfalls with BizTalk Server 2013

Recently I was working on implementing some BAM Views for a customer who is using BizTalk Server 2013. During the setup of the BAM Views on my development machine I ran into some issues. In this blog post I’ll point them out, give some background information and provide you with solutions.