I have an orchestration which is triggered by a receive port (exposed as a w
eb service). When the user sends a request, I want my Biztalk orchestration 
to read a particular text file, which resides on the the same machine as the
 BizTalk Server. How do I d
o this? Furthermore, can I construct a message from the text file it reads?

Thanks in advance.

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Not sure I know the answer to your first question but to construct a message
 you should look at the sdk and the pipeline examples.  Thanks

Gordon

"Roque" wrote:

> I have an orchestration which is triggered by a receive port (exposed as a web ser
vice). When the user sends a request, I want my Biztalk orchestration to read a part
icular text file, which resides on the the same machine as the BizTalk Server. How d
o I
do this? Furthermore, can I construct a message from the text file it reads?
>
> Thanks in advance.

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I believe you should use standard c# code inside an expression shape to read
the contents of the file. if you want to create a message out of it define a
message in the orchestration and use the assign shape to assign the values
to it. the message can be of type System.String

HTH
Yossi

"Roque" <Roque@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have an orchestration which is triggered by a receive port (exposed as a
web service). When the user sends a request, I want my Biztalk orchestration
to read a particular text file, which resides on the the same machine as the
BizTalk Server. How do I do this? Furthermore, can I construct a message
from the text file it reads?
>
> Thanks in advance.

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