And once again, the BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack community project for BizTalk Server 2016 has received a new update. A new component for your custom BizTalk Server Send pipelines is now available: the Zip Pipeline Component.
📝 One-Minute Brief
An introduction to the Zip Pipeline Component, a custom BizTalk send‑pipeline component that compresses outgoing messages using ZIP or GZIP without requiring external compression software.
Zip Pipeline Component
The Zip Pipeline Component is a pipeline component for BizTalk Server that can be used in a send pipeline (encode stage) to compress (zip/gzip) outgoing messages.
- The capabilities are similar to those available in compression software such as WinZip or 7-Zip.
- This component requires two configurations that are:
- the “FileExtension” where you can specify if you want, for example, a .zip or .gz file.
- and “Enabled” is a true or false value to activate the compression.
No compression/decompression software needs to be installed in the BizTalk Server machines.
This was an old component that I had that I now updated and improved to BizTalk Server 2016 with the help of my internal team at DevScope, in particular, Pedro Almeida.
To use this pipeline component in your projects, you just copy the BizTalk.PipelineComponents.ZipFile.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).
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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