Chapter 6. BizTalk Design Patterns and Practices

The chapters to date have dealt with advanced concepts with regard to pipelines and messaging. Most of the concepts in the previous chapters have involved examining the intricacies of a particular tool within the BizTalk toolkit. Here we'll show you how you can use some of the more advanced concepts within BizTalk to solve some higher-level scenario-based problems.

Implementing Dynamic Parallel Orchestrations

Microsoft BizTalk Server orchestrations allow parallel execution branches, using the native Parallel Actions shape.[32] However, the number of branches is static: to add an executionbranch, you need to modify and recompile an orchestration.

The behavior for Parallel Actions shapes doesn't fit ...

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