BizTalk Server Orchestration - Calling external programs in Expression Shape

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Calling external programs in Expression Shape

Andreas.Jay@de.bosch.com

2004-10-18, 2:50 am

I need to run different programms within a certain configuration. It
is planned to reengineer these programms not to show up any windows
also no console output in the future, when triggered by BizTalk within
an Orchestration; The Execution of the programms is done within an
external Assembly while the call of the Assembly is triggered with an
Expression Shape in the Orchestration.

Question:
Is there any possibility to deal with console windows that don`t
expect user input but just show some output of the triggered program?

Any help of you is appreciated and thanks in advance from me
Andreas Jay

AlexS

2004-10-22, 5:49 pm

Typically it's better to communicate with external entities using
Send/Receive ports. Depending on the scenario you may need to write a custom
adapter to call your assembly. Several good examples of the custom adapters
with source code are included with the SDK.

AlexS.

"Andreas.Jay@de.bosch.com" wrote:

> I need to run different programms within a certain configuration. It
> is planned to reengineer these programms not to show up any windows
> also no console output in the future, when triggered by BizTalk within
> an Orchestration; The Execution of the programms is done within an
> external Assembly while the call of the Assembly is triggered with an
> Expression Shape in the Orchestration.
>
> Question:
> Is there any possibility to deal with console windows that don`t
> expect user input but just show some output of the triggered program?
>
> Any help of you is appreciated and thanks in advance from me
> Andreas Jay
>