The pipeline tools supplIEd with the Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006 Software Development Kit (SDK) enable you to verify that a pipeline is functioning correctly without having to configure the BizTalk Server environment, such as send/receive ports. You can also use the pipeline tools to:

• Debug third-party pipeline components outside of the server environment.
  
  
• Diagnose parsing engine error messages.
  
  
• Experiment with different schemas without the burden of compiling, deploying, undeploying, and recompiling.
  
  
• Explore flat file and XML assembler/disassembler behavior.
  
  
• View disassembler output and discover which message context propertIEs are promoted and their values.
  
  
• Run send/receive pipelines without disassembler and assembler components (for example, you can vIEw the output of the S/MIME decoder).
  
  
• Make fine-grained performance measurements of the pipeline alone (rather than the entire messaging subsystem).
  
  

Location in SDK

<Installation Path>\SDK\UtilitIEs\PipelineTools

You use pipeline tools for executing, debugging, and profiling pipelines, and pipeline components (that is, flat file and XML assembler/disassembler components).