BizTalk Orchestration – Call Orchestration from another project or from another BizTalk Application

Imagine that we have 2 Visual Studio BizTalk Project:

  • Project1
    • Orch1
    • Schema1
  • Project2
    • Orch2

And both are deployed to the same BizTalk Application, and Orch1 from Project1 want to call the Orch2 that exist in Project2. (this also applies if these projects are deployed to different BizTalk Applications)

How can I do this?

  1. In Project2, Orch2, you have to define the Orchestration property “Type Modifier” to “Public”;
  2. In Project1, you have to add the reference of Project2
  3. In Project1, add call Orchestration shape, in property “Called Orchestration”, choose “Select from referenced assembly”,
    1. Choose Project1 reference and Orch2

The key is, in the Orchestration that you want to call from another’s Orchestrations, defined the property “Type Modifier” to “Public”

Source Code

You can download the source code from:
How to call Orchestration from another project or from another BizTalk ApplicationHow to call Orchestration from another project or from another BizTalk Application
GitHub

Author: Sandro Pereira

Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and works as a consultant at DevScope. In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premises and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size, and criticality, using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO etc. He is a regular blogger, international speaker, and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books all focused on Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices”. He has been awarded MVP since 2011 for his contributions to the integration community.

1 thought on “BizTalk Orchestration – Call Orchestration from another project or from another BizTalk Application”

  1. Hi Sandro,
    Thank you for this great post. I follow, from time to time, your posts regarding BizTalk. For calling a referenced orchestration, from another project, I can not seem to be able to enter parameters in the calling Orchestration to be transferred to the called referenced Orchestration. Any ideas why?

    Thank you,
    Best Regards,
    Mamdoh Ashir
    Vancouver, Canada

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