4/5/2008 Extended XmlValidation Pipeline Component

Posted at: 4/5/2008 at 9:07 AM by saravana
It's always a good practice to validate your incoming messages against schema to make sure you discard useless messages up front and avoiding unnecessary processing. BizTalk allows you to verify the validity of the incoming Xml message against deployed schema in few different ways. Some of the easy options are Using XmlReceive pipeline and setting the ValidateDocument property to true. Create a custom Receive Pipeline and use the XmlValidate pipeline component in the valida... [More]
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5/29/2007 Pipeline Component, XmlSerialization and Performance

Posted at: 5/29/2007 at 12:33 PM by saravana
I'm basically replying to Yossi's post here. I tried to leave it as a comment in his post but for some reasons my comments are not getting posted in his blog. Myself and Yossi used to work together in a big public sector Healthcare BizTalk project for nearly 1.5 years. First off all I need to thank Yossi for his complement about my white paper "Understanding Design-Time Properties for Custom Pipeline Components in BizTalk Server". Yossi mentioned in his po... [More]
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1/31/2007 Difference between (PassThruReceive, PassThruSend) and (XmlReceive, XmlSend) Biztalk Pipelines (For Beginners)

Posted at: 1/31/2007 at 6:44 PM by saravana
I've recently seen a query in the "Biztalk New Users" newsgroup someone asking the above question. I quickly did a search to find out if there is (are) a decent article out there explaining the difference and didn't find any. I feel its quite important and basic thing every biztalk developer should understand, ofcourse we all learned this by experience, but for new comers it will be a big confusing point. So, let me put a short article here to explain the difference. ... [More]
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1/31/2007 Defining design-time properties using basic .NET data types

Posted at: 1/31/2007 at 6:43 PM by saravana
Recently I was building a pipeline component which requires a simple design time property. Even though I've written a white paper about it Understanding Design-Time Properties for Custom Pipeline Components in BizTalk Server I couldn't remeber all the syntax on top of my head. So, I opened the document for a quick view. I just copied a section from the article which explains the basic steps and published it here. View the full article for detailed explanation of some of the advanc... [More]
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1/4/2007 Understanding Design-Time Properties for Custom Pipeline Components in BizTalk Server

Posted at: 1/4/2007 at 8:41 PM by saravana
Recently I been involved in building variety of Biztalk pipeline components with different design-time properties ranging from simple "string" to "complex collections". I struggled a bit to figure out the ways to do it, due to poor error description you get while developing and also due to lack of documentation around it. Normally you'll find some blog articles here and there explaining stuff, but in this particular instance I couldn't find any blog articl... [More]
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9/21/2006 Biztalk Custom Pipeline Component Development Tip

Posted at: 9/21/2006 at 8:35 AM by saravana
Pipelines are implemented in a BizTalk 2004/2006 project for a variety of reasons, including encryption/decryption, splitting single XML documents into multiple documents, and converting flat files into XML documents etc. For doing above mentioned tasks we'll be using Pipeline components (which gets deployed in different stages of a pipeline). For more information about Pipeline and pipeline components visit here We need to follow certain procedures before the component get used by Biztal... [More]
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8/23/2006 Handling incoming data streams in pipeline components in BizTalk Server 2004/2006

Posted at: 8/23/2006 at 5:31 PM by saravana
When you write custom disassembler code for pipeline components, you must make sure that you do not close the incoming data stream in the custom disassembler code. The incoming stream from the input message is a shared resource. The incoming stream is also used by the message body tracking component in the BizTalk Server message engine. If you either implicitly or explicitly close the incoming stream, tracking data may be lost. Therefore, you cannot examine the data in the Health and Activity... [More]
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4/18/2005 Pipeline Performance

Posted at: 4/18/2005 at 11:50 AM by saravana
At the moment I'm working on one of the world's biggest civilian project and one of the world's biggest biztalk implementation. In order to achive strict SLA targets each and every milliseconds Biztalk takes inside the processing time frame is really critical for us. I'm in the process of tuning performance in our custom pipeline component. We are taking different approaches to test the performance. I was experimenting with pipeline.exe -t option to calculate the time it takes... [More]
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4/3/2005 Pipeline.exe for performance Improvement

Posted at: 4/3/2005 at 11:31 PM by saravana
I guess many of you guys around will be working with custom pipeline components and I suppose you create biztalk artifacts (send/Receive port) to test your pipeline components. Along with the SDK install comes this tool pipeline.exe which can be used for the following purposes: * Debug third-party pipeline components outside of the server environment. * Diagnose parsing engine error messages. * Experiment with different schemas without the burden of compiling, deploying, undeploying, an... [More]
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