Thoughts of Marcus
- Random ramblings of a BizTalk architect

While working on a library of powershell scripts to do unattended installations of BizTalk applications (and all adjacent files and packages...

Every now and then the BizTalk hosts won't start with the following message in the BizTalk Administration console: Starting instance o...

Today the recorded sessions from the BizTalk 2010 Release Party / Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform in Stockholm earli...

A few days late, but BizTalk 2010 is finally finished. The European BizTalk Conference I attended were meant to be the release party, but th...

A question on the BizTalk Professionals group on LinkedIn caused me to write a short answer, but I thought I'd do a more comprehensive t...

I'm back at the office after two days at Microsoft in Stockholm and the European BizTalk Conference where I enjoyed myself together with...

When hosting a WCF service in BizTalk, one can come across the error message "Root element is missing" when trying to browse the s...

I have repeatedly since I started working in Visual Studio 2008 been swearing while debugging applications since the whole IDE stops respond...

I have lately encountered a lot of build scripts that are using devenv. I have a hard time seeing why, now that msbuild is available (and ha...

A notorious error message in BizTalk is the irritating "The expression that you have entered is not valid.". This message will be ...