Location of Default Pipelines Assembly and its Fully Qualified Names in Microsoft BizTalk Server – Interview Question

Hi, I will explore the assembly which contains Default (Inbuilt) pipelines, its location in the GAC and how these pipelines are present in every BizTalk project folder.

It's not a major thing to know the assembly for Default pipelines, but it's good to know.

The Default pipelines are present in the assembly - Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.dll  

 

The assembly Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.dll is present in  GAC, in the below path

C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines\3.0.1.0__31bf3856ad364e35\

Note - Copy of the assembly is also present in the BizTalk installation folder.

The ILDASM view is from the BizTalk installation folder

For every BizTalk project the Default pipelines are available for usage, since there is a reference to the assembly Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.dll  in the Reference folder of every BizTalk project.

Fully Qualified Name of Default Pipelines

The fully qualified names of the pipelines are useful when we need to call the Default pipelines inside Orchestration

Pipeline Name – Fully qualified name

i) XMLReceive Pipeline -  Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.XMLReceive

ii) PassThruReceive Pipeline -  Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.PassThruReceive

iii) XMLTransmit Pipeline -  Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.XMLTransmit

iv) PassThruTransmit Pipeline -  Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.PassThruTransmit

Also Check Out - 

1) How to call Receive or Send Pipelines inside Orchestration
http://pnsoftwarestudies.blogspot.in/2015/06/how-to-call-receive-or-send-pipelines.html