New Post: Supply MSBuild value to PortBindingsMaster.xml
Hi Tom. Thanks a lot for your reply. I should have posed my initial question in a more precise way :-) Your last reply helped me the rest of the way. For others, I post the complete code below. Again,...
View ArticleNew Post: Customising the Start menu items
Is there anyway to customise the Start menu items? Specifically in my current deployment, I'd like to put a "Start <application>" on there, which could, as its name suggests, start the...
View ArticleNew Post: BT2013R2 + VS2013
Hi BizTalk 2013 R2 iso is now available on msdn. Regards Bharat
View ArticleNew Post: Update PortBindings with Dynamic Version Number from TFS Team Build
Perfect, thanks for posting the code! Tom
View ArticleNew Post: BT 2013 R2 Compatibility
BizTalk 2013 R2 will be supported in v6.0, which does not have a scheduled release date. I hope to have a stable beta within the next couple of months. I can't say whether you can continue using MSI's...
View ArticleNew Post: Pre-process BRE and environment bindings based on user selection
I've got a requirement where the BRE policy needs preprocessing based on the target server environment (DEV/TEST/LIVE) The discussion post shows how to use the <FilesToXmlPreprocess> to...
View ArticleNew Post: Pre-process BRE and environment bindings based on user selection
I was overthinking the first part of my requirement ... Depending on the selected environment settings file, generated from SettingsFileGenerator.xml, the pre-processing can replace any ${} values in...
View ArticleNew Post: BT 2013 R2 Compatibility
I just installed BizTalk 2013 R2 and tried using BTDF 5.5 with it. The msi built fine but when I run the msi, it fails when deploying the solution to BizTalk, specifically right before it creates a...
View ArticleNew Post: BT 2013 R2 Compatibility
What operating system? Can you paste the MSBuild output from DeployResults.txt?
View ArticleNew Post: Settings for Local Deployment
Hi, BizTalk Deployment Framework works perfect here. Thanks for this great tool. I only got one question: By now, I could not figure out where I can specify which configuration in...
View ArticleNew Post: Settings for Local Deployment
Hi Tom, You can use the property DeveloperPreProcessSettings to specific an alternate XML file path. The default is $(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\EnvironmentSettings\Exported_LocalSettings.xml. Thanks, Tom
View ArticleNew Post: Settings for Local Deployment
Hi Tom, Thanks a lot for your quick reply. That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks and regards, tom
View ArticleNew Post: Install Target Directory
Just wanted to confirm that setting the DefaultInstallDir is the only way to change the target installation directory? Secondly is it possible to get access to the DefaultInstallDir value in the...
View ArticleNew Post: Install Target Directory
Correct. DefaultInstallDir really just generates a .bat file next to the MSI that passes a command-line param to msiexec.exe. In (future) BTDF v6.0 the default path is merged into the generated MSI and...
View ArticleNew Post: Install Target Directory
Thanks Tom Was hoping some of the MSBuild variables were available in addition to our environment settings during the binding preprocessing. Thanks Michael
View ArticleNew Post: Install Target Directory
Any environment variables are accessible during pre-processing using the format ${_env_ENVVARNAME}. MSBuild properties are not. Other property name/value pairs, including any MSBuild properties, can be...
View ArticleNew Post: Install Target Directory
No not avoiding SSOSettingsFileReader just a significant change to the pipeline components as they're used by different applications.
View ArticleNew Post: Deployment on non last Biztalk server - why is it stopping Biztalk...
When we do deployment on non last server ( just GAC dlls) , it is stopping BizTalk in the step Target ServerUndeploy. Why is it doing this? It is now happening for other applications, but only for one...
View ArticleNew Post: Deployment on non last Biztalk server - why is it stopping Biztalk...
Do you have DeployPDBsToGac set to True anywhere? If so, remove it or set it to False.
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