Category Archives: Pipeline Components

In the last two posts in the series, we’ve seen how to create custom Schema Resolver components designed to be used when implementing the IProbeMessage interface in a pipeline component. In today’s post, I’ll show the implementation of the pipeline … Continue reading →

Recently, I have been tasked with architecting a BizTalk solution capable of receiving and processing an arbitrary number of flat file messages on a single receive location. My first reaction was to allow for a sequence of FlatFile Disassembler components … Continue reading →

In my latest post, I’ve described a technique than allows to overcome a limitation of the ESB Toolkit 2.0 when performing context-based or content-based routing using the Business Rules Engine Resolver after an Orchestration in an Itinerary Service. I described … Continue reading →

As you know, per-instance pipeline configuration allows you to specify properties to a pipeline after it has been deployed. Specifically, this allows for altering the configuration of individual pipeline components, without recompiling or redeploying the pipeline itself. This is quite … Continue reading →

In a previous installment, I wrote about one of the simplest types of custom pipeline components, that only dealt with the context of the message. Sometimes, however, it is necessary to somehow process the contents of the message itself, as … Continue reading →

One of the easiest forms of custom pipeline components to write are those that do not have to process the contents of messages at all as they flow through the pipeline. In this post, I’ll present one such component, whose … Continue reading →

In most scenarios I’ve been working on with BizTalk Server, I had a need to introduce one or more custom pipeline components. You always have this feature that is not quite available out of the box and often need to … Continue reading →