Your Guide to BizTalk Message Context Properties whitepaper

by | May 10, 2022 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication | 0 comments

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As you most likely are aware, when a document is received by a BizTalk Server adapter, the adapter creates a BizTalk message for the document. The BizTalk message contains the document that was received as well as a message context. The message context is a container for various properties that are used by BizTalk Server when processing the document. Each property in the Message Context is composed of three things, a name, a namespace, and a value.

Message context properties are added to the message context throughout the lifetime of the message as it passes through the BizTalk Server. These properties:

  • Are either extracted from the message itself, for example, order id or shipment number
  • Or added by pipelines and adapters at the receive location, for example, transport name or receive port name

There are mainly two benefits of this context:

  • The first is to provide the various components of BizTalk, an easy access to these properties, without having to parse the message
  • The second is to support content-based routing.

There are two different types of message context properties used by BizTalk as described below:

  • Distinguished Fields
  • Property Fields.

In this whitepaper, you will learn the key differences between Distinguished and Property Fields but most importantly you will have access to a complete list of known property schema and properties used internally by the BizTalk Server out-of-the-box components.

What’s in store for you?

This whitepaper will give you a detailed understanding of the following:

  • BizTalk Message Context Properties
    • What are Property fields and how to promote properties?
    • What are distinguished fields and how to create a distinguished field?
    • Summary of differences between Property Fields and Distinguished Fields
  • System property schema and properties
  • Error Report property schema and properties
  • Legacy schema and properties
  • Microsoft BizTalk XLANGs BTXEngine schema and properties
  • Message Tracking schema and properties
  • BizTalk Framework Schema and Properties
  • MIME-SMIME Property Schema and Properties
  • XML and Flat File Property Schema and Properties
  • File adapter property schema and properties
  • FTP Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • HTTP Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • MQSeries Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • MSMQ Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • POP3 Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • SMTP Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • SFTP Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • SOAP Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • SQL Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • WCF Adapters Property Schema and Properties
  • Windows SharePoint Services Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • Azure Service Bus Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • Azure Blob storage Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • Azure Event Hubs Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • Office 365 Outlook Calendar Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • Office 365 Outlook Contact Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • Office 365 Outlook Email Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • SharePoint Online Adapter Property Schema and Properties
  • Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 (BTAHL7) Property Schema and Properties
  • How to write or promote properties in the context of a messages through the BizTalk API
    • Promote method
    • Write method
    • Property Schema Base

Where I can download it

You can download the whitepaper here:

Download Your Guide to BizTalk Message Context Properties whitepaper

I hope you enjoy reading this paper and any comments or suggestions are welcome.

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