New Post: BTDF Support for BizTalk 2016
Hi,I got it working in one case, by modifying the GenericBizTalkMSI.wxs to add handling for the case of BizTalk 2016 as it checks the BTS Version.Not sure if I found all locations where changes need to...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF in NuGet package. Is it possible?
Hi, Would that be possible to package BTDF for NuGet? I know that it is not done yet, but I'm just interested if there are any obstacles which could prevent doing that (except obvious one that nobody...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF Support for BizTalk 2016
Hello againI got it working with CTP, but it’s flakey with CTP2.I found there are other references to the BizTalk version in the generated BizTalkDeploymentFramework.Targets file. Does anyone know the...
View ArticleNew Post: Substitute connection strings in web.config
Hi Tom, I have a BizTalk 2013(r1) project that deploys the usual BizTalk assembly types plus a couple of WCF web services. I'd like to be able to configure values for connection strings used by the...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF for Biztalk 2016
Hi I've posted about this previously. I'm struggling to get BTDF to work with BizTalk 2016. Currently working on a big project that has been decided to use Biztalk 2016, and BTDF would be a major help....
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF for Visual Studio 2015
Hi There, Today I was trying to use BTDF for Visual studio Community Edition 2015. But I could not see the Biztalk Project items so my gues is that BTDF is not supported yet for VS2015. Is this due...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF for Visual Studio 2015
Hi, Are you trying to use it with BT 2016 CTP? There is a discussion about that.
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF for Biztalk 2016
Hi, I'm also interested as to whether there are plans and estimated timelines for BizTalk 2016. Thanks! Dennis
View ArticleNew Post: Deploy Configuration Settings to BTSNTSvc.exe.config
Hi there, I am looking for an example of how to deploy configuration settings into the BTSNTSvc.exe.config file. Specifically, these are configuration sections for Enterprise Library and some WCF...
View ArticleNew Post: Conditional SSO deployments
Hi, I want to know if I can conditionally deploy SSO settings through BTDF. Meaning, once the settings are packaged in the MSI, I use Octopus Deploy to deploy this package to the BizTalk environments....
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF for Visual Studio 2015
Hello, I trying to use BTDF with BizTalk 2016 and Visual Studio 2015, but after installing newest version of BTDF, there is no BTFD template in visual studio. Does anyone know how I can use BT2016 and...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF Support for BizTalk 2016
Hello, I trying to use BTDF with BizTalk 2016 and Visual Studio 2015, but after installing newest version of BTDF, there is no BTFD template in visual studio. Does anyone know how I can use BT2016 and...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF Support for BizTalk 2016
Hi I've gotten BTDF 5.6 working with BizTalk 2016. But there are quite a lot of hoops to jump through, not only the file replaced above. But it will never work with VS 2015. I have to build the...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF for Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2015 no longer supports the add-in model used by the Deployment Framework, so the add-in would need a substantial rewrite. Unfortunately, that would also mean supporting two different...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF for Biztalk 2016
Hi Tom, Another person interested in projected timeline (if any) for BizTalk 2016. Thanks, and appreciate all the work! David
View ArticleNew Post: Interplay between Solution Name, , and ApplicationName
Hi Tom, I'm back again, kind of like wack-a-mole... Almost 2 years at current client now, they weren't ready for BTDF before, one false start with it, now they are ready. Could you refresh me the...
View ArticleNew Post: SSO Compatability between .msc to BTDF way
At current client, they didn't opt for BTDF at first, but they did go for SSO for config variables. We use c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Services\SSO Application Configuration\SSO Application...
View ArticleNew Post: Interplay between Solution Name, , and ApplicationName
Ha, hello again Neal :-) As MSBuild properties, ProjectName is defined directly inside the .btdfproj. BizTalkAppName defaults to the value of ProjectName, unless you override it. The Visual Studio...
View ArticleNew Post: Interplay between Solution Name, , and ApplicationName
Tom, I did a "bad thing", and BTDF didn't protect me from myself... (Rule #1 - do no harm). After customizing my .btdfproj file, I was testing it by doing menu: Tools/BTDF/Build Server Deploy MSI to...
View ArticleNew Post: Interplay between Solution Name, , and ApplicationName
Sorry that your bindings got zapped. Been there, painful. :-( If you want the BizTalk app name to be different than what you specify in the ProjectName property, then use...
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