Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns

Creating the orchestration

We are now ready to begin processing of our notification messages and, as we have already discussed, we will be using an orchestration to do so. This orchestration is fairly simple and will start when it receives our canonical InventoryNotification message.

Right-click the orchestration project and select Add | New item. Select Orchestration and use the name ProductInventory.odx.

Creating messages

Before we get too far into our orchestration design, we'll create the three messages that we know we need to execute this process:

1. Right-click the Multi-part Message Types folder and click New Multi-part Message Type.
2. Name the type InventoryNotificationType, rename the MessagePart_1 to Body and select PRP.InventoryManagement.InternalSchemas.InventoryNotification ...