Pipes use Id instead if Name to identify end-components.

TBF/Rig/ComponentBase.cs

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ namespace TBF.Rig
 		readonly Generic.IComponentCfg cfg;
 		public Generic.IComponentCfg Cfg { get { return cfg; } }
 
+        public int Id                    { get { return cfg.Id; } }
 		public string Name               { get { return cfg.Name; } }
 		public string ClassName          { get { return cfg.Factory.ClassName; } }
 		public string ParentName         { get { return cfg.ParentName; } }

TBF/Rig/ComponentCfgBase.cs

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ namespace TBF.Rig
 {
     public class ComponentCfgBase
     {
+        [XmlIgnore]
+        public int Id { get; set; }
+
 		[XmlIgnore]
         public string Name
         {
@@ -127,6 +130,7 @@ namespace TBF.Rig
 				IComponentCfg config = s.Deserialize(reader) as IComponentCfg;
 				if (config != null)
 				{
+                    config.Id = cmpntEntity.Id;
 					config.Name = cmpntEntity.Name;
 					config.ParentName = cmpntEntity.Parent;
 					config.ItemNr = cmpntEntity.ItemNr;

TBF/Rig/Generic/IComponentCfg.cs

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ namespace TBF.Rig.Generic
 {
 	public interface IComponentCfg
 	{
+        int Id { get; set; }
+
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Unique component # (0  ..  nr.of components-1)
 		/// </summary>