Example solution

In this section, we will walk through creating our very first BizTalk application.

On a machine with the BizTalk Development Tools and Visual Studio 2008 installed, open Visual Studio and select BizTalk Project|Empty BizTalk Server Project. The Solution Name should be AppliedArchitecture.Chapter4.BizTalk. The project name should be SimpleBizTalkSolution.

Note

If you are using BizTalk Server 2009 and get "Creating project project name"… "project creation failed" as an error message, there is a solution at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkcrt/archive/2009/08/21/visual-studio-2008-fails-to-create-open-biztalk-projects.aspx

We will create a Customer schema, by adding a new item to the project and selecting Schema; name it Customer.xsd.

Note

For a full overview of best practices for schema design, please read the book "SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009", Chapter 5 Schema and Endpoint Patterns, (Packt Publishing, 2009) by Richard Seroter.

Open the BizTalk editor by selecting the...