Testing envelopes and pipelines

Although the preceding solution does work, figuring out exactly how pipelines and envelopes will function at runtime can be tedious if you have to deploy your solution every time in order to test them. The developers of BizTalk thought the same and provided us with plenty of tools to make working with envelopes and pipelines much easier. These are available in the following directory:

<InstallDir>\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010\SDK\Utilities\PipelineTools

Tip

Add this to the path of your development workstation so that working with these tools is easier. The easiest way to do this is to click the Start button, right-click Computer, and select Properties. Click Advanced System Settings on the left, then click Environment ...

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