It turned out that the root of the problem was an early (non-BTDF) version of the application was still installed on the server, but not deployed to BizTalk. Once it was removed, everything worked fine. It must have had some kind of hold on the virtual directory. The test project helped track down the problem.
Thanks for your work on this framework, and your quick answers on the discussion threads.
Thanks for your work on this framework, and your quick answers on the discussion threads.