I got asked a question the other day: How would you validate an incoming message against a schema if the message was the request part of a request-response pair and you wanted to return a response if the request wasn’t valid? In the example given, an orchestration had been...
One of the most annoying things in BizTalk is when an error is generated in a Receive Pipeline indicating that a message has been suspended because of the content of the message doesn’t validate against the given schema (for the moment, we’ll gloss over the fact that in an...
Background: The large(ish) BizTalk system I’ve been working on for the last few months consumes a few external Web Services. Whilst doing some early performance tuning, I noticed that I was getting pretty serious request-response latency from the primary BizTalk Web Service… Like over 45 secs, instead of the...