biztalk custom pipelinecomponent split messages in send

Question

Is it possible to create a custom pipelinecomponent that splits a message in 2 messages, but in the send port? I have seen that it is possible in the receive port using the disassembler interface, but can we use this in a send pipeline component? Can someone give me an example to how to accomplish this?

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Answer 1

Typically send ports are made for assembly and not dis-assembly, hence why the interface for a send port component has an assemble aspect to it. Is sounds like this would be a good opportunity to split the message via filters and use multiple send ports to send out the 2 messages. I've seen a few folks do this with writing the msgs to the file system, etc. but that screams bad practice. Think of splitting the messages before the pipeline components are needed.