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BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By : Steef-Jan Wiggers
Book Image

BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By: Steef-Jan Wiggers

Overview of this book

BizTalk enables the integration and managment of automated business processes within or across organizational boundaries. To build a solid BizTalk solution, deploy a robust environment, and keep it running smoothly you sometimes need to broaden your spectrum, explore all possibilities, and choose the best solution for your purpose. By following the recipes in this book you will gain required knowledge and succeed in your implementation. With BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, you can leverage and hone your skills. More than 50 recipes will guide you in implementing BizTalk solutions, setting up a robust and well performing BizTalk environment, and choosing the right solution for monitoring it. As a developer or administrator you greatly benefit from taking these recipes to work. In this book a developer and administrator will see how to deploy, build, and maintain a BizTalk environment. How to apply patterns for robust orchestrations, messaging and testing. Administrators will learn to set up an environment using Microsoft best practices and tools to deliver a robust, performing and durable BizTalk environment. Besides setting up their environments administrators can also decide through a number of recipes how to monitor and maintain the environment. A developer can contribute to a healthy environment by implementing instrumentation in artefacts, applying well suited pattern(s) and testing the solutions built.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Calling a pipeline in an orchestration


BizTalk 2006 introduced the feature of calling a pipeline from within an orchestration. As a developer, you are now able to use pipeline-processing stages within an orchestration, such as validating a document. Calling a pipeline can make your orchestration more efficient by minimizing the interactions between the orchestration and the MessageBox database. Through programmatic interface inside pipelines, you can call, receive, and send pipelines directly from an orchestration.

Getting ready

Open Visual Studio 2010 and create a solution. For reference, you can download the source code belonging to this chapter.

How to do it...

As an example, a message is de-batched through calling a pipeline in an orchestration. To call a pipeline in an orchestration, you can perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new BizTalk project and add schemas in the project you require. Schemas in these steps are available in the code sample for this recipe. There is one envelope schema...