Built-In Pipelines

BizTalk ships with a number of built-in pipelines, which are described in this section. Because this book does not cover the Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) functionality of BizTalk, the EDI-specific pipelines are not discussed.

Receive Pipelines

This section describes the built-in receive pipelines.

PassThruReceive

The PassThruReceive pipeline is an empty receive pipeline, meaning that it does not have any components in any of the four stages of a receive pipeline. Therefore, it does not perform any actions on the incoming message, so the message is published into the MessageBox exactly as the adapter has handed it to the pipeline. This is useful for receiving binary files or other files that you need to basically just copy using BizTalk or for receiving files into a generic workflow that handles all files the same regardless of format.