New Post: Single EnvironmentSettings for multiple applications
Hello, We have a several applications in the BizTalk, we are using BTDF projects for each of them. Each BTDF project has its own EnvironmentSettings worksheet. We do not update them that often, but...
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I also should have said that this is scripted deployment and the problem is when undeploying, because it is that BTDF will overwrite existing exported settings. Normally the settings are created using...
View ArticleNew Post: Considerations and thoughts on using the Deployment Framework for...
Sander Nefs shares his thoughts about pros and cons of the Deployment Framework for BizTalk vs. the out-of-the-box deployment tools.
View ArticleNew Post: preprocess BRE vocabulary files error
Using the OutputFilename is supposed to write the output next to the source file. That does not seem to work for me, as the result of the processed masterFile is never found in the directory of the...
View ArticleNew Post: preprocess BRE vocabulary files error
On a Visual Studio deployment, the preprocessed file should appear next to the source file. On a server deployment via MSI, the source file ItenarySelection.Master.xml will no longer be in a subfolder,...
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What I am trying to achieve, is that in a server deployment via the MSI, the policies would automatically be imported and deployed. This is what the<RulePolicies...
View ArticleNew Post: preprocess BRE vocabulary files error
I realized what you were trying to do from your first post, and that's why I posted the solution above. Did you try it? The point of it is to copy the file to the BRE\VocabAndRules folder after it is...
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Hello Tom, I tried the solution from your first post and it worked like a charm. Why it worked was not clear for me initially, but I assume now that rules and vocabularies that are copied to the...
View ArticleNew Post: preprocess BRE vocabulary files error
Hi Peter, It's not that they are deployed by default from BRE\Policies. That's what you used in your ItemGroup. This solution is just getting the file into the same place during a server deploy as it's...
View ArticleNew Post: Numit withBTDF
I am getting the following error after I try to run the Verify deployment Nunit tests after a succesful deployment : System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'C:\Program Files...
View ArticleNew Post: Nunit with BTDF
You must be on BizTalk 2010 or newer, so everything should be .NET 4.0. The path that you listed is the only place where the NUnit files are stored. Did you check that the new NUnit that you copied was...
View ArticleNew Post: Nunit with BTDF
Hi, Thanks for the prompt response. I am using BTS 2010. When I over write the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Deployment Framework for BizTalk\5.0\Framework\DeployTools\NUnitSubset folder" with the contents...
View ArticleNew Post: Nunit with BTDF
Correct, the MSI build process looks for nunit-gui.exe to determine whether to create the shortcut, and the shortcut will always be tied to that EXE name. As for the application failure, all I can say...
View ArticleNew Post: Set Application Name from Environment Settings Spreadsheet
Hi, I'd like to set the ProjectName or ApplicationName of the installed BizTalk application from the settings spreadsheet. I've added BizTalkAppName to spreadsheet with environment specific application...
View ArticleNew Post: Set Application Name from Environment Settings Spreadsheet
Hi Adrian, You need to explicitly set ProjectName to something. It is mostly used for default file naming and a few registry keys. The important thing is that you are overriding BizTalkAppName. You...
View ArticleNew Post: Set Application Name from Environment Settings Spreadsheet
Thanks. I just added the the value to the spreadsheet and remove it from the btdfproj file completely and it now works. Regards, Adrian.
View ArticleNew Post: The process cannot access the file issue during local deployment
If it were me and a lot of time has gone into it already, and it's isolated to one machine, I'd probably just rebuild the machine. You could chase it for a long time. At this point you've eliminated...
View ArticleNew Post: The process cannot access the file issue during local deployment
I have compared the log files between my new machine and the old machine. I am not seeing that its logging anything related to ".cab" file. Its really strange how two machines are behaving with the...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF for application to be hosted as IIS
Hi Tom. It has been a long time. I hope all is well. I have set this up before but it has been a while. I am trying to remember, will BTDF create the AppPool, the virtual directories and install the...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF for application to be hosted as IIS
Hello again Keith, During a Visual Studio deployment the AppPool is not created, but during server/MSI deployment it is created. That just avoids having to collect a password to set up the AppPool...
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