BizTalk™ Unleashed

Creating a Managed AIC Component

Creating a managed Application Integration Component (AIC) is similar to creating a managed component called from a COM client. Chapter 17, “Application Integration Components,” discussed two BizTalk Messaging COM AIC interfaces. The first implements the IBTSAppIntegration interface; the second implements the IPipelineComponent interface. The IBTSAppIntegration AIC consists of a lightweight model that requires a single interface and consists of a single method, ProcessMessage, as its entry point. The ProcessMessage public method accepts a single parameter, the document string. This section discusses and demonstrates the use of the IBTSAppIntegration interface in a managed C# component. In this section we are going ...