Blog somnia is over

It has been over 2 years since i last blogged. It is an understatement if i said i had an insomnia about my blog. It was more of a sabatical phase(aka marriage), where i was busy absorbing the world around me.

Also, i realised my blog was host to spam comments and ads ranging from viagra to bald hair cure. Apologies for letting such waste of digital media. I promise to do a better job this time :-)

Hopefully i get a chance to share more meaningful information with my friends going forward.

Distinguished Fields vs. Promoted Properties in Biztalk

In Biztalk you can promote a property as either distinguished or promoted properties. Choosing what to use is tricky.

Distinguished fields: In general use Distinguished fields if you want to just use them in Orchestration

• No restriction on field length
• No participation in Routing
• No seperate property Schema
• Not accesible by std pipeline components

Promoted Properties: These are generally used with Routing

• Used in publish and subscribe in the Msgbox
• Field Restictions ( 255)
• Seperate Property schema
• Restricted in the XSD types support compared to distinguished properties

Synopsis: Use Distinguish properties as they are lightweight unless you need them for any special stuff like Routing ,Tracking ,Correlation or custom pipeline behaviour