The pipeline tools supplied with the Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006 Software Development Kit (SDK) enable you to verify that a pipeline is functioning correctly without having to configure the BizTalk Server environment, such as send/receive ports. You can also use the pipeline tools to:
- Debug third-party pipeline components outside of the server environment.
- Diagnose parsing engine error messages.
- Experiment with different schemas without the burden of compiling, deploying, undeploying, and recompiling.
- Explore flat file and XML assembler/disassembler behavior.
- View disassembler output and discover which message context properties are promoted and their values.
- Run send/receive pipelines without disassembler and assembler components (for example, you can view the output of the S/MIME decoder).
- Make fine-grained performance measurements of the pipeline alone (rather than the entire messaging subsystem).
Location in SDK
<Installation Path>/SDK/Utilities/PipelineTools
You use pipeline tools for executing, debugging, and profiling pipelines, and pipeline components (that is, flat file and XML assembler/disassembler components).