Custom pipeline component debugging

Here goes a nice tip about custom pipelines debugging.

We have to ways to do this:

• The hard way:
• Open your custom pipeline code on Visual Studio and place the breakpoint in the desired line.
• Click on the menu Debug >> Attach to process.
• Select the process BTSNTSvc.exe and click on the Attach button.
• Drop a message in a configured port and wait until the code hit the breakpoint.
• The other way:
• Open your custom pipeline code on Visual Studio and place the breakpoint in the desired line.
• Go to the custom pipeline project properties page and click on the Debug tab.
• On the “Start Action” property, select Start external program and then type “Driveletter$\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\SDK\Utilities\PipelineTools\Pipeline.exe”
• On the command line arguments property type “customPipeline.btp -d messageInstance.xml -c”
• customPipeline.btp = path to the pipeline that use your custom component
• messageInstance.xml = File that contains the message instance
• Now, just press F5 and wait until the code hit the breakpoint

Nice huh?