Sometimes you need to use a proxy to access an external web service. This article show how to do it, and have it driven by the web.config.

How to install the WCF features into IIS 7.

Most BizTalk systems have the need to deploy WCF web services. This shows how to do it in Visual Studio 2008, and even set up alternative config files for multiple environments such as: Test, QA, Staging, Prod.

BizTalk has the ability to store cross reference (xref) values in the BizTalkMgmtDB. Usually, mapping functoids handle the conversion, but the following routines allow the same lookups from anywhere you can call C#.

Converts several date/time formats to standard XML Date/Time

We had a case where many maps need to convert YYYYMMDD date format to a standard XML date.

A way to get the BizTalk SQL Server name from the register, and use it to build a connection string:

This code builds an xml document in memory, then returns it as an System.Xml.XmlDocument. It also show the proper way to build an XML date.

This sample shows how to build an XML node (CreateElement) and add it as a new child (AppendChild) in an existing XML document.

This can be useful for generating test data.