Author: mikaelsand

Glad you decided to join despite the nice weather. Here is the lab file. Feel free to use them as you want. Keep them. http://mikaelsand.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Instructions.docx

Yes, it is true! A new milestone is about to be passed. On the 26th of April I will speak at the Aims event “Turning artificial intelligence into business intelligence”. Tickets are available here. It will be an awesome experience.

I have made two presentations available online at the Integration Monday website. Part 1: Logic Apps a Beginner’s guide I made this in April 2017 and it starts from the beginning. There are some prereqs which I cover in this post. The post is for VS 2015 but it works for 2017 as well. This […]

This is more for me personally, rather than trying to put something new out there. A while back I struggled with getting something simple and basic to work. The reason is that there is usually too much useful information on “options” and “you have to decide”. I took upon myself to document the simplest of […]

Relating to my other post on Get unix epoch from DateTime in Logic Apps, there is a much simpler way to calculate UtcNow from a Unix timestamp. There is even no real math involved. All you do is make use of the built in function addToTime. Here is the expression:addToTime(‘1970-01-01′, 1508852960,’second’) So if you receive […]

This was posted as a question on the forums a while back. I thought this was a very interesting question as dates, math and the combination of the two intrigues me. There is a very easy way to achieve this using c# and Azure Functions: Int32 unixTimestamp = (Int32)(DateTime.UtcNow.Subtract(new DateTime(1970, 1, 1))).TotalSeconds; But I wanted […]

Introduction Using powershell to make things happen in Azure is awesome. Personally, I put together small little snippets based on one or two simple actions, like “start the development VM” or “disable the polling Logic App”. There is one downside to this though and that is the constant barrage of login windows. You might not […]

The very nice and pleasant Maheshkumar Tiwari is running a series of interviews on his blog (Techfindings). He had a lot of interesting questions! Read the full interview here: http://www.tech-findings.com/2017/10/begineer-to-biztalk-expert-interview-Mikael-sand.html

What is Azure Eventgrid Azure Eventgrid is a new technology in Azure, aimed at connecting different applications, much like other integration technology like Azure Service Bus or Logic Apps. However, Eventgrid wants to turn traditional integration patterns on its head. Traditionally, you poll for data until data arrives. An event based model is the other […]

Back when I was a BizTalk developer I used something called sequential convoys. Two main features that had to be implemented to use that pattern was a timeout shape, and a parallel branch. The flow either received a new message or it “timed out”, executing some other logic, perhaps sending an aggregated batch to a […]