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    • May 31, 2006 at 8:53 AM #14781
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        I have a folder that contains 100 messages(pictures) that I only want to pass Biztalk through a send port(passthru). How or can i collect all files and zip them into one file and deliver it to it’s destination? I assume that it must be done in a custom pipeline?
        Has anyone done something similair?

      • May 31, 2006 at 3:22 PM #14782
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          I think an Orchestration is the only way to do this. A pipeline would create 100 instances and you can’t really group inside them.

          Depending on the size, you could end up running out of memory inside BizTalk.

          Maybe a custom adapter could work.

          This doesn’t really sound like something that BizTalk would really excel at. I think you could use a .net component to do this with minimal effort. That would be called through an Orchestration if needed.

          Just my thoughts.

          • May 31, 2006 at 7:51 PM #14783
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              I think the custom adapter would be the best place to do this.
              If you wanta head start you could try this adapter:
              [url]http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=E473FC93-5081-44C7-A9C9-84BF4E783728[/url]

              You will need to write a scheduled task to perform the zip function

              • June 16, 2006 at 4:24 PM #14784
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                  I agree with Stephen, using BizTalk for this would not be a good idea. You could use BizTalk to inform the endpoints of the need to do a file transfer, or collect a list of file names to be zipped, or whatever, but if you send this through BizTalk you’re storing all those pictures in the MessageBox, however temporarily, which is a big waste of bandwidth.

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