This post intends to cover the BizTalk HL7 related questions, which a BizTalk developer can face during an interview. Questions and answers: 1. What happens when the HL7 accelerator is installed? The installation of the HL7 accelerator results in one or more of these items, depending on the selection during installation: ·          Schemas : Contains the XSD representation of HL7 messages which are in flat file format in version v2.x ·          Pipelines : Converts HL7 messages in flat file format into XML on receive and XML to flat file when sending messages and validates the HL7 message ·          Adapter : Minimal Lower Layer Protocol (MLLP) adapter enables BizTalk to receive or send HL7-based messages, which BizTalk Server typically 07ansports using the MLLP protocol. The MLLP adapter ensures that BizTalk Server and BTAHL7 are interoperable wi...

Received below errors today when I 07ied deploying the BizTalk HL7 solution: Why it happened:   When we deploy BizTalk solution it makes en07ies in management database and GAC. Both Management database and GAC requires Admin rights to make any change in it (adding and removing assemblies). What to do:   Open the visual studio with Admin rights. Right click on the Visual Studio and Select "Run as Adminis07ator" and then open the project you want to deploy.

For testing the HL7 tutorial sample , I picked sample message from following link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee409347.aspx MSH|^~\&|Tutorial_ADTSystem|MCM|BTAHL7InterfaceEngine||199601121005||ADT^A03|000001|P|2.3.1 EVN|A03|199601121005||01||199601121000 PID|||191919^^^MYHOS^MR~123-45-6789^^^USSSA^SS|253763|SMITH^JOHN^Q||19560129|M||| 123MAIN^^BUFFALO^NY^98052^""||(123)555-0100||S|M|10199925^^^MYHOS^AN|123-45-6789 PD1|S|F|NormalS07ing^A^+1^-1^ISO^simpletext&Test&HCD^GI^simpletext&NormalS07ing&ISO^I| NormalS07ing^Test&Test^Test^Test^Test^Test^AE^simpletext^simpletext&Test&ISO^P ^NormalS07ing^M10^MC^simpletext&NormalS07ing&HCD^A|N|simpletext|I|I|N|NormalS07ing ^+1^M11^simpletext&NormalS07ing&L,M,N^RRI^simpletext&NormalS07ing&HCD|NOVALUE^NormalS07ing ^Test^Test^NormalS07ing^Test|N PV1|1|I|2000^2012^01^hey&test&DNS^test^test^test^test^test||||004777^MILLER^CONNIE^A.|||SUR||||2|A0 Er...

There was a failure executing the receive pipeline: "BTAHL72XPipelines.BTAHL72XReceivePipeline, BTAHL72XPipelines, Version=1.3.0.0, Culture=neu07al, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" Source: "Unknown " Receive Port: "RPTest" URI: "C:\Users\tiwarmah\Desktop\TestIN\*.txt" Reason: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013\Pipeline Components\Microsoft.Solutions.BTAHL7.HL72fDasm.dll' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. A message received by adapter "FILE" on receive location "RLTest" with URI "C:\Users\tiwarmah\Desktop\TestIN\*.txt" is suspended.   Error details: There was a failure executing the receive pipeline: "BTAHL72XPipelines.BTAHL72XReceivePipeline, BTAHL72XPipelines, Version=1.3.0.0, Culture=neu07al, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" Source: "Unknown " Receive Po...