Excel into BizTalk 2006 – the easy way
September 11th, 2006FarPoint just released a pipeline disassembler component for Excel documents (called “FarPoint Spread for Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006″). It looks pretty cool! It comes with a “Spreadsheet Schema wizard” that integrates with Visual Studio 2005. It could potentially save a lot of work.
I guess the reason that Microsoft hasn’t released anything like this is that they like to push the use of Infopath. Basically everything would be much easier if one uses Infopath, but there might be situations where this isn’t possible.
May 17th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
FarPoint Technologies is proud to announce the release of the new version of Spread for BizTalk. We have listened to our customers and added many features and broadened the functionality of the schema wizard and runtime component.
If you need to integrate Excel XLS, CSV, TXT data into BizTalk applications, take a look at Spread for BizTalk for a codeless solution to integrating Excel data.