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Biztalk 2004: Per-Instance pipeling - Tool

Just found this interesting article . For each pipeline (Receive Locations and Send Ports each have a Receive and Send Pipeline respectively, but if a port uses a Request-Response message exchange pattern it will also have a corresponding pipeline for the other direction, so the Receive Port will have a Send Pipeline and the Send Port will have a Receive Pipeline) the configuration database holds another piece of configuration. In the ExplorerOM this can be found as the ReceivePipelineData (on the ReceiveLocation or SendPort object) or SendPipelineData (on the SendPort or ReceivePort object) property. This "data" is generally empty in most cases, but can be an XML document that overrides some or all of the properties of the components configured in the pipeline (note that the XML cannot add any addtional pipeline components)

Introduction ... better late than never ...

I've been running this blog for a few months now, without proper introduction. So now, I thougth, the time is ripe. My real name is Kenneth. I've been dragging the kennywest alias around since my first hotmail acount (which was also my first real e-mail address), which is why I used this alias for my blog as well. I'm a consultant implementing architectures/solutions for B2B and A2A scenario's. For the moment I am using Biztalk to do this. I've also used plain Java, Seebeyond's e*Gate and Crossworlds. Although I am working with Biztalk and .NET . I am not a, how should I put it, Microsoft supporter. I'm more into Open Source and Linux or UNIX. I first heard about linux 8 or 9 years ago. At that time we were doing labs on a DOS box telnetting to a Linux server to learn about a database called PostgreSQL. A friend of mine had a 6 CD box containing RedHat, SuSE and Slackware distros. He told me he'd installed it and loved it very much. I decided to take it

Biztalk 2004: Mime revisited ...

I had to deploy a flow in production today that has been working fine for 2 months in our test environment. The flow receives a mail from an IIS maildrop folder, gets all attachments and sends them to an orchestration. Mails are in .eml format which is actually a mime message following the RFC2557 specification. Below you can find a sample file that enters Biztalk: From: a@a.com To: b@b.com Subject: hello world Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:31:17 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_000_01C5E973.82A5C520" ------_=_NextPart_000_01C5E973.82A5C520 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary= "----_=_NextPart_001_01C5E973.82A5C520" ------_=_NextPart_001_01C5E973.82A5C520 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hello world, content ------_=_NextPart_001_01C5E973.82A5C520 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> <HEAD