BizTalk Server provides a few out of the box pipeline components. For instance the S/MIME components for encrypting or decrypting messages. In case you need to do some pre- or post processing on a message and the functionality is not offered through the provided pipeline components you will need to built your own custom pipeline component. However there are quite a few available customized pipeline components available you can reuse and save you the time of building it yourself. This article provides you as developer all the resource available regarding custom pipeline components for BizTalk Server.
Another important place to find a huge amount of BizTalk related articles is the TechNet Wiki itself. The best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.
Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 37. Comment: Minor edits
M--G edited Revision 30. Comment: add new component for encryption
Richard Mueller edited Revision 18. Comment: Fixed duplicate <a name> tag in HTML
Sandro Pereira edited Revision 9. Comment: Added more pipelines
Sandro Pereira edited Revision 8. Comment: Added more zip components