Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Notification Services

Chapter 9. Content Formatters

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Overview of Content Formatting

• Preparing the SQL-NS Instance

• Using the XsltFormatter

• Building a Custom Content Formatter

When a SQL-NS application matches events and subscriptions, it produces rows of notification data. To turn these rows of data into actual notifications, the application’s distributor passes them through a content formatter that transforms the raw data into a meaningful message for the target recipient.

This chapter is all about content formatters: what they do, how they work, and how to use them in your own applications. We’ll take an in-depth look at the built-in content formatter that SQL-NS provides, the XsltFormatter. You’ve already seen this formatter used in the examples ...