New Post: can deploy/undeploy from VS but not via generated MSI
Hi. First of all - thanks for a nice framework it is really helpfull. :-) Situation: I have an external assembly which I reference from my BizTalk application. (BizTalk 2013) Deployment/undeployment...
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Great, thanks. The Include="" is there because Include is required, so I made it "". It doesn't do anything. Thanks, Tom
View ArticleNew Post: BT2013R2 + VS2013
I looked on MSDN and BizTalk 2013 R2 doesn't even seem to be available. Whenever they post it I'll see what I can do. I would most likely do the work in v6.0 and see if it can just be back-ported, but...
View ArticleNew Post: can deploy/undeploy from VS but not via generated MSI
The problem is the mixed assemblies. Schema DLL deployment happens before anything else. Try dropping this in your .btdfproj to force the external assemblies...
View ArticleNew Post: can deploy/undeploy from VS but not via generated MSI
Hi Tom. Thanks a lot - that worked :-) I guess I'll have to get a little into MSBuild, as you also suggest in your walk throughs! I'll donate a little cash when I get back at work - it's really a great...
View ArticleNew Post: Customise MSI appearance
Is there anyway to customise the appearance of the generated MSI? First thing I've been asked is ... "Can't we have our company logo on it" ... which I appreciate isn't exactly a show-stopper when it...
View ArticleNew Post: Customise MSI appearance
Hi Steve, In v5.5 you have full control over the MSI, so you can make it do anything. It will take some work because you'll have to create your own WiX dialogs instead of using the defaults. That's all...
View ArticleNew Post: can deploy/undeploy from VS but not via generated MSI
Much appreciated Bo! I don't think there's any shortage of work to be done -- a new Visual Studio add-in for 2010+, dependency analyzer, built-in group-wide deployment automation, etc. If there's...
View ArticleNew Post: Settings for Visual Studio Add-in
Is there anyway to pass settings to the "Deploy BizTalk Solution" in the Visual Studio add-in? Initially I want to pass in VDIR_UserName and VDIR_UserPass ... I've got them working before from the...
View ArticleNew Post: Settings for Visual Studio Add-in
I think I've partly resolved how to do it ... I added ...<PropsFromEnvSettings Include="SsoAppUserGroup;SsoAppAdminGroup;VDIR_UserName;VDIR_UserPass" /> and the VDir is created with the required...
View ArticleNew Post: Settings for Visual Studio Add-in
Hi Steve, The typical model is to add VDIR_UserName and VDIR_UserPass to InstallWizard.xml and have them entered by the operator running the deploy wizard. Those two properties are intended for server...
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New Post: ProjectName+EnvironmentName
Hi Tom,Thanks for all the help. I have described in details what I am trying to achieve below.Present Deployment:Which is mixture of Custom Deployment Manager out put such as version number which...
View ArticleNew Post: Failure removing assembly from cache: The parameter is incorrect.
I'm getting below error while undeploying the solutions Any idea ? Biztalk2010 and BTDF 5.0 I have deployed/undeployed other applications, there I'm not getting any error,except this one. As per error,...
View ArticleNew Post: Failure removing assembly from cache: The parameter is incorrect.
The assembly name is an empty string, so there's probably something wrong in your Orchestrations ItemGroup, or perhaps you are not using a valid value for the Configuration property. Are you using the...
View ArticleNew Post: Failure removing assembly from cache: The parameter is incorrect.
I'm using standard wizard UI and also there is Orchestration ItemGroup in project file.<IncludeOrchestrations>True</IncludeOrchestrations><!-- Orchestration artefacts to be included....
View ArticleNew Post: Failure removing assembly from cache: The parameter is incorrect.
To help debug it, you could paste the following into the .btdfproj file (on the...
View ArticleNew Post: Failure removing assembly from cache: The parameter is incorrect.
This is the outcome and I confirmed that the orchestration assembly is there in install folder and the name is also correct (BizTalk.Test.App.Orchestrations.dll).Build started 13/06/2014 2:10:21 AM....
View ArticleNew Post: Failure removing assembly from cache: The parameter is incorrect.
The DLL path looks fine and you say the physical file exists. The only thing that is done on it before the gacutil is this code (simplified):...
View ArticleNew Post: Missing "Visual Studio 2010 Integration" in setup
Hi everyone, I tried to install BTDF 5.5 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 64-bit machine with BizTalk Server 201 and Visual Studio 2010 installed. First I tried the 'complete' option and when this...
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