There is plenty of information on the Net relating to being able to send an HTML email from BizTalk using a dynamic SMTP port and an orchestration (see here and here ).  At a client I needed to achieve the same objective, but without the use of an orchestration and with a static SMTP port.  The basic requirement was that the customer was looking to develop a solution that would make use of the standard send port filters, outbound map resolution, and BizTalk's management console to provide

The Issue Earlier this week Bennie Wentzel , a developer from a customer I was engaged with last year, posed me a question which went something like this: If I have a synchronous web service receive port, how can I return the result of a map on this receive port to the calling web service client, without using an orchestration or the ESB Guidance Toolkit ? Although I had never done this before I was pretty sure it was possible, so I took this as a challenge and set out to prove that it could be done.

In my previous post on the default behaviour of the XMLReceive pipeline with respect to validating a message against a schema I detailed the creation of what I termed the "XMLValidatingReceive Pipeline".  In response to this posting, Payal Arya emailed me the following question with respect to this posting, which highlighted the need for more clarity around how the pipeline works: "Your posting was very helpful, however I had one question that what's the use of XML Disassembler

The ability to rigidly define the content of a data field is an essential element in any structured data definition.  It is no surprise therefore one can define data constraints on elements and attributes in a schema through the means of various facets, such as enumerations, min length, regular expressions, and many more.  The implementation of facets in a schema provides a large amount of value in terms of the data aspect of the contract to be used in an integration.  Whether the