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Scripting Using Inline C#, JScript .NET, and Visual Basic .NET

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Inline scripts are convenient for custom code that you are unlikely to use elsewhere in your application.

BizTalk saves inline scripts in the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) stylesheet defining the map. Because of this, inline scripts may use the same namespaces as any other XSLT stylesheet script. The following table shows the available namespaces.

Namespace Description
System The System class.
System.Collection The collection classes.
System.Text The text classes.
System.Text.RegularExpressions The regular expression classes.
System.Xml The core XML classes.
System.Xml.Xsl The XSLT classes.
System.Xml.Xpath The XPath classes.
Microsoft.VisualBasic The Visual Basic script classes.

For more information about namespaces and data types, search on "XSLT Stylesheet Scripting using <msxsl:script>" and on "System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform" in the .NET Framework collection.

Caution

Avoid using the same method signature more than once. When several Scripting functoids have the same method signature, BizTalk selects the first implementation and disregards the others.

In addition to being convenient for one-time scripts, inline scripts are also useful for declaring global variables for use among a number of scripts. For example, in a C# inline script, you could place the following line of code outside of any class.

ArrayList statusList = new ArrayList();

This creates an ArrayList, statusList, available to all inline scripts in the map.

For a sample inline script, see XML Tools (BizTalk Server Samples Folder).

See Also

Scripting Functoid
Scripting Using External Assemblies
Scripting Using Inline XSLT and XSLT Call Templates
How to Add Scripting Functoids to a Map
How to Configure the Scripting Functoid