Promote Properties from Orchestration without dependency on Property Schema

I have a property schema deployed in a common application, all properties are of MessageContextPropertyBase Type. I want to promote properties in orchestration outgoing message, which generally is done by adding a reference to property schema assembly
and assigning the values to promoted property and then initialize a correlation on the property while sending the message. This approach create a dependency on property schema assembly. I don't want to have this dependency. Is there any other way to promote
properties from orchestration except correlation initialization.

The Promoted Property in BizTalk is a method of naming and share names between BizTalk artifacts. Say we receive a message and want to route it by looking to some node in this message or some context value of this message. We don't want to use an XPath,
we just want to use a name of some message property (which further can be mapped to XPath internally or some context value, which is an implementation detail). So now we have a name. The next step is to limit my names in some namespace.
The solution in BizTalk was the names implemented as the XML Schema root nodes together with XML Namespaces. The possible solutions could be use of DB or some generic service to store and manage the shared names, but in BizTalk we have the names which are
effectively the nodes of property schema. To manage those shared names we can use the standard BizTalk tooling for XML Schemas, which is nice. Now we can use the same name for different message properties in several messages, which gives us a nice correlation
method.
But again, the main idea of Promoted Property in BizTalk is a method of naming and share names between BizTalk artifacts. Sorry for this description. Just want to know we are on the same page.
Back to your question. It is not clear what is your issue.
Is it the weird way to promote property for new messages in orchestration?
IMHO, this is a real issue but a small one.
Is it the application dependency created by shared schema? This issue is a big one, IMHO. It harms development and deployment productivity, but makes deployment more secure and reliable. Reliability won in this
battle. If we compare the deployment process of the .NET applications with BizTalk applications, the .NET app deployment is simpler and less reliable, the BTS app deployment is more complex and more reliable. Now developers should pay a high attention to the
deployment aspects of the BTS application up-front.
Leonid Ganeline [BizTalk MVP] <a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20258.biztalk-integration-development-architecture.aspx">BizTalk Development Architecture</a>

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Hi Ramachandra,
Obviously from above responses you would have got the point that this can’t be done out-of-box and you need to do custom. Also when you say “Get the message
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Get the message attribute values in Orchestration without using property promotion

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There are also multiple ways of creating the Xpath:
- Full path with namespaces - Rahul Madaan showed this one
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I find this useful when picking up key-values from the message, that can be available only once.
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HI,
In my project there are 3 messagetypes
Lets call them X, Y and Z
On schema Y, there are a 2 elements(AuthID and AuthCode) marked for promotion property.
we have a pure messaging solution.
On the Receive side, the Map converts a message X into Y.
On the Send Port, there is a map as well as a custom pipeline.
The Send map converts Y to Z. The Send pipeline looks for the 2
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Regards,

Hi,
Just to explain you why it's working in case of Outbound map in send port-
Whenever outbound map transforms message from Y to Z, it also copies all the properties of message Y to Z because these properties needs to be present for Adapter execution.
To verify this try to fetch context properties like ReceivePortName, ReceivedFileName etc. you will notice they all will have same values of that of Message Y. But if you try to fetch the message value in eventlog you will see it will have message Z's content/body.
But in orchestration properties are not copied by default you will have to explicitly copy them using below code.
msgZ(*)= msg(*)
Or you can use MessageContextPropertyBase as in below sample. Later you will have to promote them by initializing correlation on these properties.
https://masteringbiztalkserver.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/difference-between-messagecontextpropertybase-and-messagedatapropertybase/
Let me know if you have any question.
Thanks,
Prashant
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I realize that you are trying to be a pain in the arseNot really. I know that I spent about a day figuring it out and that was after skirting around the issue for a about a year.
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>
This should be Java 101. Advanced Topics should be
something that affect people who have programmed Java
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