Testing the unzipcomponent sample

Recently, some people have requested a usage example of the UnzipComponent pipeline component example posted here. I've create a sample solution, containing the UnZipComponent itself and a BizTalk project consisting of a simple receive pipeline witht the UnZipComponent in it.

The UnZipComponent uses a build action to copy itself to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004\Pipeline Components", so if you have installed BizTalk Server 2004 somewhere else, please alter the location by right-clicking the project, choosing "Build Events", navigating to "Post-build Event Commmand Line" and pressing the three dots button on the right.

A binding file has been included which you can import with the BizTalk Deployment Wizard or from the command-line using "btsdeploy.exe" from the BizTalk Server 2004 installation folder.

The binding file contains folder references, which probably don't match your testbed setup. Alter them after importing them by using BizTalk Explorer (whichever version :p)

The sample project does nothing other than decompressing the inbound zipfile and submitting 1 message for each file within the zipfile. I've included a file called "test.zip", which contains 2 simple XML files consisting of very interesting data, which will be put into the output folder configured. Nothing else.

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The sample project can be found here. (Don't forget to alter the AssemblyInfo.cs and project properties of the BizTalk project to refer to your own strong name key file.)

Please remember that the btsntsvc.exe process (the BizTalk service) locks the pipeline component when in use. So if you alter anything, stop the service, compile and start the service, otherwise the post-built event will fail)

One more thing... Pipeline components should normally not be within the same solution as the projects that use these components, as the components get loaded by the pipeline designer and locked, so compilation would become rather hard...

Hope you enjoy this!