BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts – day 10. Following my last blog post, here is another component migrated to BizTalk Server 2020 that is part of my BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions UtilityPack project: Unzip File Pipeline Component.
📝 One-Minute Brief
Introduces the Unzip File Pipeline Component for BizTalk Server 2020, a custom receive‑pipeline component that automatically extracts ZIP or GZIP files into individual XML messages during the disassemble stage.
Unzip File Pipeline Component
The Unzip File Pipeline Component for BizTalk Server runs in a receive pipeline, specifically in the Disassemble stage. In this stage, it processes compressed ZIP or GZIP files and extracts their contents into multiple XML messages.
From a functional perspective, the component behaves like standard compression tools such as WinZip or 7‑Zip. However, it integrates directly into the BizTalk pipeline, which allows seamless message processing.
Most importantly, the component requires no configuration at all.
In addition, you do not need to register the component in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) for the BizTalk Runtime to use it.
The component doesn’t require any configuration.
What is BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack?
BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack is a set of custom pipeline components (libraries) that can be used in received and sent pipelines, extending 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, this project is available for:
- BizTalk Server 2020;
- BizTalk Server 2016;
- BizTalk Server 2010;
- BizTalk Server 2006-2009
Download
You can download BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack from GitHub:
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Hi Sandro
Any particular reason you made it a Dissassemble pipeline component? Is it so that it can publish multiple messages if there are multiple files? It would be handy for it to be a Decode, as then you can have another component then disassemble the file in the same pipeline.