The BizTalk 2006 Message Archiving Component I released in March of this year on Codeplex has been received well by the BizTalk Community based on the e-mails I have received and downloads (156 source code downloads & 51 binary downloads):
The component allows messages to be written to the file system for archiving, it can be executed in either the Decode (Receive) or Encode (Send) stages and uses message context-properties to define the archive path. The component is written in a streaming fashion, is designed for large message consumption and can handle Xml, binary and flat-files. If you haven’t tried it yet, download a copy from Codeplex now.
I’m now starting to think about feature enhancements for the next version, 0.4; my current feature list is as follows:
- Enabled/Disabled flag to allow easy on/off functionality at run-time
- Archiving to database (rather than file)
- Enhanced logging functionality
- ‘Special’ macros to include values other than those taken from the context properties (e.g. %ReceivedFolderName% when messages are received via the file adapter)
- MSI-based installer
- Documentation!
Please feel free to add any further features or requests via the comments.
Nick,
Definitely useful to archive to a DB as in a production env SQL will be clustered ensuring high reliability when storing the file. The On/Off switch is particularly useful in development.
Keep well,
Heinrich