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It has to stop the host instances because they will load the PDB's when present and lock them. Then we will fail on the next deploy due to the locked files. If you specify a list of hosts in a...
View ArticleNew Post: Undeployment - why is all my host instances getting stopped?
Thank's a lot for clearifying. It all seems very logic now, and we have solved all our issues until now. We're looking forward to deliver a much more simplified deployment routine to our operational...
View ArticleNew Post: Undeployment - why is all my host instances getting stopped?
Great, glad to hear it! I'm sure that your operational guys will be pleased. Tom
View ArticleNew Post: .btdfproj file token replacement
That's generally the best solution. Just to follow up on your original issue -- the reason it did not work is MSBuild's order of evaluation. When MSBuild parses the .btdfproj, it parses and...
View ArticleNew Post: Bindings only msi
Is it possible to create a BTDF msi for an application that doesn't have any visual studio artifacts? I have an "application" that is basically just a bindings file; no schemas, maps, orchestrations,...
View ArticleNew Post: Bindings only msi
Hi, the answer is probably yes... I have not tried that for a long time, but if you set IncludeSchemas, IncludeTransforms and IncludeOrchestrations all to False it should still work OK. It may be...
View ArticleNew Post: Different MSI and master bindings based on region
Hi, I need to create 2 MSI from the same the BizTalk Solution based on the region category. The bindings for the same as different (no. of send ports) for each region. There are 2 ways of doing it -...
View ArticleNew Post: Different MSI and master bindings based on region
Hi Neel, Creating a single MSI with multiple master binding files is going to be the easiest path. One binding file will just be the "default" and the other an add-on. First, add the new master binding...
View ArticleNew Post: Event tracking on default pipelines gets disabled by undeploy
Hi, Has anyone else experienced this issue? When undeploying an application with the BTDF, event tracking on some of the DefaultPipelines gets disabled. More specifically, I have an application that...
View ArticleNew Post: Deploying VDirs
Hi, i had problem with deploying web services to IIS. When BTDF was deploying VDirs it throws an exception with message "The given path's format is not supported.". So i started investigating what i'm...
View ArticleNew Post: Deploying VDirs
You cannot use absolute paths. It would not make much sense to use an absolute path to someplace outside of your solution directory structure. If you are exporting a web service from BizTalk that you...
View ArticleNew Post: Event tracking on default pipelines gets disabled by undeploy
Most tracking state information is stored within the binding file. Once you have your app deployed and you have configured all of the tracking the way that you like, use BizTalk Admin to export the...
View ArticleNew Post: Event tracking on default pipelines gets disabled by undeploy
Hi Thomas, After further investigation, it turns out the issue has nothing to do with the deployment framework. My pipeline tracking is getting disabled simply by deleting an application that uses one...
View ArticleNew Post: Store Enterprise Library Config in SSO
Hi, was wondering if anyone has used SSO to store Enterprise Lib config. If so what is the general approach? Failing that, is there a way to automatically update the BTNTSvc.exe.config using BTDF to...
View ArticleNew Post: Event tracking on default pipelines gets disabled by undeploy
OK, thanks for posting your findings!
View ArticleNew Post: Store Enterprise Library Config in SSO
The ESB Toolkit actually ships with an SSO EntLib Configuration Source which basically does what you're saying -- for EntLib 4.1. When you configure the ESB Toolkit with its configuration tool you can...
View ArticleNew Post: Different MSI and master bindings based on region
Thanks Tom. I could alter the installwizard.xml and btdf.proj file accordingly and test them out. It works fine. For some improvization in the same, can I have radio buttons (with list of region) on...
View ArticleNew Post: DeployFileAdapterPhysicalPaths
Is there a way to skip the DeployFileAdapterPhysicalPaths target?
View ArticleNew Post: DeployFileAdapterPhysicalPaths
Yes -- ManageFileAdapterPhysicalPaths property. Thanks, Tom
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