In this session, Steef-Jan Wiggers and Eldert Grootenboer will provide you an overview over all the different extensibility points and will demonstrate a few of them in demo’s.

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Eldert Grootenboer
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2. Steef-Jan Wiggers
Microsoft Integration Consultant
• Microsoft Integration MVP
• Published Author
• (Inter)national Speaker
• TechNet Wiki Author
• Blogger
• Forums
• Runner
• 12th Man
DutchWorkz B.V.
www.dutchworkz.nl

3. Eldert Grootenboer
Microsoft Integrations Consultant
• Blogger
• Published Author
• Speaker
• Technet / MSDN
• Boat enthusiast

4. Agenda
• BizTalk Extensibility
• Outside in
• Inside out
• Demo’s
• Mapping
• Orchestration
• BAM
• Deployment
• Monitoring
• Discussion

5. http://www.biztalk360.com/biztalk-server-extensibility/
The eBook BizTalk Server Extensibility
Authors
Reviewers

6. Take aways
• Awarness of divers extensibility capabilities
• Power of .NET
• BizTalk can handle a great deal of complexity
• Considerations

7. Extensibility
• What does that mean?

8. BizTalk Extensibility
Decode Disassemble Validate
Resolve
Party
Port Level
MessageBox
Adapter
Pipeline
Map
1
2
3
Orchestration Level
4
SSO
5
Deployment
Testing
6
BAM/BRE
8 9
7
Community
Tools 10

9. Topics

10. Port
Port level Tools Considerations
Adapters Adapter Pack SDK Buy vs Build
Behaviours .NET (WCF) Design

11. Pipeline
Port level Tools Considerations
Custom Pipeline Visual Studio Extend pipeline
capabilities
Custom Pipeline
components
Pipeline
Component Wizard
Built from scratch
or retrieve online

12. Mappings
Port- or
orchestration level
Tools Considerations
XSLT Altova Mapper vs XSLT
Custom Functoids Visual Studio Consolidate
functionality
Script functoid Visual Studio Enhance mapping
capabilities

13. Demo – Mapping Extensibility

14. Orchestrations
Orchestration level Tools Considerations
Helper classes Visual Studio Support process,
configuration
Expression shape Visual Studio Limitiations

15. Demo – Orchestration Extensibility

16. Debugging
BizTalk solution level Tools Considerations
Port Visual Studio Run-time
Pipeline Visual Studio,
Pipeline.exe
Runtime
Map Visual Studio Design vs Runtime
Orchestration Orchestration
debugger, DebugView
Debug statements

17. BRE
Extension Considerations
Fact retriever Custom fact retrievers
Pipeline BRE Pipeline Framework

18. BAM
Extension Considerations
BizTalk Out of the box Tracking Profile Editor
API Write to eventstream from pipeline, orchestration
or .NET
WCF/WF Custom interceptor

19. Demo - BAM
Ship Ordering
System
Invoice
Approval
Order Service
Order
Processor
Orchestration
External Order
Service
BAM

20. Deployment
Extension Considerations
Script Leveraging MSBuild, time consuming
PowerShell More control, flexibility, automation
BTDF A complete, customizable framework

21. Demo - BTDF
<!-- BRE -->
<ItemGroup>
<RulePolicies Include="*">
<LocationPath>..Rules</LocationPath>
</RulePolicies>
</ItemGroup>
<!-- Application Pool -->
<ItemGroup>
<IISAppPool Include="BizTalkExtensibility">
<DotNetFrameworkVersion>v4.0</DotNetFrameworkVersion>
<PipelineMode>Integrated</PipelineMode>
<DeployAction>CreateOrUpdate</DeployAction>
<IdentityType>SpecificUser</IdentityType>
<UserName>Administrator</UserName>
<Password>Pass@word1</Password>
</IISAppPool>
</ItemGroup>
<!-- Webservices -->
<ItemGroup>
<IISApp Include="PurchaseOrderService">
<AppPoolName>BizTalkExtensibility</AppPoolName>
<PhysicalPath>C:inetpubwwwrootPurchaseOrderService</PhysicalPath>
<VirtualPath>/PurchaseOrderService</VirtualPath>
</IISApp>
<IISApp Include="ExternalOrderService">
<AppPoolName>BizTalkExtensibility</AppPoolName>
<PhysicalPath>C:inetpubwwwrootExternalOrderService</PhysicalPath>
<VirtualPath>/ExternalOrderService</VirtualPath>
</IISApp>
</ItemGroup>

22. Logging
Extension Considerations
Log4NET Classic way of logging, easy to use.
Enterprise Library Leverage Microsoft building block
ETW Better performance

23. Operations
Extension Considerations
BizTalk Assemblies Roll your own solution(s)
Third Party Buy vs build

24. BizTalk360
Extension Considerations
Notification Targets Hook into other systems
Widgets Extend with your own data

25. Demo – BizTalk360

26. Overall considerations
• Buy vs Build
• From scratch or online
• Instrumentation
• Use commmunity and (free) tools/products

27. Another extensibility: Community
• NoS addin: Productivity
• Pipeline Component Wizard: Productivity
• Benchmark Wizard: Performance/Tuning
• BizTalk Documenter: Documentation
• BizTalk Software Factory: Solution

28. Round up
• .NET adds value
• Building blocks
• Choose wisely
• Productivity
• Reinvent the wheel

29. Resources
• TN Wiki
• Blogs
• Books
• MSDN Code Gallery
• BizTalk Sample SDK
• Training Kit
• White paper Gallery
• Pluralsight

30. Contact
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Steef-Jan.Wiggers@msn.com
http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.com/
TN Wiki: UserPage

31. Eldert Grootenboer
@egrootenboer
eldert.grootenboer@motion10.com
http://blog.eldert.net

32. Discussion