BizTalk File Adapter: Pick files from subfolders?

You're right - this is not possible with the BizTalk file adapter The only way I can think of achieving this in pure BizTalk would be to write your own custom file adapter. There is a wizard that will help you build a custom adapter in Codeplex here Some other options that may do what you need are: Programatically creating receive locations for each direcory in the tree (probably cumbersome if the tree is large) Aggregating the files using a windows service into one location (you would lose the context properties about the original location) Call a . NET helper component from within an orchestration that searches the directory tree (not a bad option but again you would lose the nice ability of BizTalk managing context properties for you - you would need to write some custom code that allows you to retain properties like the original location).

You're right - this is not possible with the BizTalk file adapter. The only way I can think of achieving this in pure BizTalk would be to write your own custom file adapter. There is a wizard that will help you build a custom adapter in Codeplex here.

Some other options that may do what you need are: Programatically creating receive locations for each direcory in the tree (probably cumbersome if the tree is large) Aggregating the files using a windows service into one location (you would lose the context properties about the original location) Call a . NET helper component from within an orchestration that searches the directory tree (not a bad option but again you would lose the nice ability of BizTalk managing context properties for you - you would need to write some custom code that allows you to retain properties like the original location).

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