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. ...

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