BizTalk Mapper

Understanding the BizTalk Mapper: Part 7 – Conversion Functoids

13th February 2008

Surprisingly, neither XSLT v1.0 nor XSLT v2.0 have any built-in conversion support (well, not for the scenarios represented in this category anyway). It is possible […]

Understanding the BizTalk Mapper: Part 6 – Date/Time Functoids

12th February 2008

XSLT v1.0 has no support for Date/Time values, whilst XSLT v2.0 has full support. Therefore it’s not surprising that your only option is to use […]

Understanding the BizTalk Mapper: Part 5 – Logical Functoids

11th February 2008

Whenever I’ve looked at the XSLT generated by a map I’ve always been confused by the amount of inline C# generated by these functoids. After […]

Understanding the BizTalk Mapper: Part 4 – Mathematical Functoids

10th February 2008

Mathematics is not a strong point of XSLT. XSLT v1.0 has very poor mathematic support, whilst XSLT v2.0 has better support, but only by a […]

Understanding the BizTalk Mapper: Part 3 – String Functoids

8th February 2008

The String Functoids are probably the most frequently used in maps (in my experience), mainly because they’re the most familiar to a procedural programmer (i.e. […]

Understanding the BizTalk Mapper: Part 2 – Functoids Overview

7th February 2008

This whole series of posts started because I wanted to show what XSLT was emitted when using the default functoids provided by Microsoft. Specifically, I […]

Understanding the BizTalk Mapper: Part 1 – Introduction

6th February 2008

In this post:Introduction BizTalk Mapper 101 History BizTalk Mapper in BTS 2004 / 2006 / 2006R2 What happens when a map is compiled What happens […]