The BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack community project for BizTalk Server 2016 has received a new update, and now it includes another component you can use in your custom BizTalk Server pipelines: Carry SOAPHeader To WCF-BasicHttp Pipeline Component.
Carry SOAPHeader To WCF-BasicHttp Pipeline Component
The Carry SOAPHeader To WCF-BasicHttp is a pipeline component for BizTalk Server, which can be used in a send pipeline and is intended to carry forward the received custom SOAP Header to the outgoing message, in other words:
- This component will read the Custom SOAPHeader from the Message Context Properties.
- The custom header name will be defined on the component configuration, and we can read it from the target http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/SOAPHeader.
- and will configure this custom header in the OutboundCustomHeaders property used by the WCF-BasicHTTP Adapter.
The OutboundCustomHeaders property is used to specify custom SOAP headers for outgoing messages. When this property is used, the property must have the <headers> element as the root element. All of the custom SOAP headers must be placed inside the <headers> element:
- If the custom SOAP header value is an empty string, you must assign <headers></headers> or <headers/> to this property.
This component is useful if you are implementing CBR operations on legacy service (SOAP – .asmx) using the new WCF-Adapters in BizTalk Server. Notice that the SOAP adapters, still present in BizTalk Server 2016, are obsolete and discontinued.
To use this pipeline component in your projects, you just copy the CarrySOAPHeader.dll file into the Pipeline Components folder that exists in the BizTalk Server Installation directory: ..\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server <version>\Pipeline Components on every server.
You do not need to add a custom pipeline component to be used by the BizTalk Runtime to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).
📝 One-Minute Brief
An introduction to a custom BizTalk pipeline component that carries SOAP headers from inbound messages to outbound WCF‑BasicHttp requests, enabling header‑based routing and integration scenarios.
What is BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack?
BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack is a set of custom pipeline components (libraries) with several custom pipeline components that can be used in received and sent pipelines, which will provide an extension of BizTalk’s out-of-the-box pipeline capabilities.
The project is available on the BizTalk Server Open Source Community repository on GitHub (https://github.com/BizTalkCommunity), and everyone can contribute new pipeline components to extend or improve existing BizTalk Server capabilities.
At the moment, it is only available for BizTalk Server 2016, but it will soon be compiled and available for previous versions of the product.
Download
You can download BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack from GitHub:
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