BizTalk Flat File Schema Wizard.

 

BizTalk 2006 has new Template called  Flat File Schema Wizard , In this post I am going to show how we can use this Template  to converting Flat File to  XML message which BizTalk can  understand.

Basically Inside the BizTalk only XML message are allowed.  now let say we have Flat File which contains Customer profile information as shown below

Sreeni,35,232232323,sragavan@hotmail.com   now we need to convert this text file to XML  XSD Schema.

Steps needed to convert Flat File to  XML Schema  (XSD).

1) First Use Flat File Schema Wizard  to Create XML Schema instance.

2) Create a Receive custom pipeline to disassemble the  Flat File into XML file

3) Create strong name and then add SN key file to the BizTalk  project, now build and deploy the project into BizTalk Message Box[ DB].

4) Configure Receive and Send ports.

5) Test the Application.

 

First Create a Empty BizTalk Project  and Add  Flat File Schema Wizard to it.

Follow the Wizard Dialog.

 

Please select the  Flat file which needs to convert to XML Schema.

 

Here you edit the Element name and select the data type of each element.

 

Finally the Selected  Flat File instance is created as the XSD Schema as shown below.

 

Now we need to create Receive custom pipeline to Disassemble the Flat File , Drag and drop the  Flat File Disassembler from left side Toolbox in to  Disassemble Stage of the Pipeline.

Configure the  Receive Location with Custom Pipeline which we created.

Configure the Send port Filters as shown below.

Now drop the  Flat File instance  in  Receive Location (IN folder) after 1 or 2 seconds BizTalk Will Get that file and push to Receive  pipeline.

Input File :

Out put XML file:

 

thanks

Sreenivasaragavan.