Azure, .NET and Software development

BizTalk 2010 RTM was released Will be available for purchase from 1st October

Developer edition is free !! get it
For more information and trial download check this page

In some cases message can be "lost" while it is processing by pipeline, the reason can be damaged XML format or unexpected error. So you will not be able to find the lost message in Failed Messages (Group Hub)in Event Viewer you will find something like

There was a failure executing the receive pipeline: "Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.XMLReceive, Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines, Version=3.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" Source: "XML disassembler" Receive Port: "ReceivePort1" URI: "C:\Temp\rcv\*.txt" Reason: No Disassemble stage components can recognize the data.

To solve the problem you should enable routing for failed messages in receive port
Then create a send port which will filter all failed messages for you

New book was published by my favorite BizTalk guru , it will be interesting not only for BizTalk developers.
What you will learn from the book :
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