New Post: BTDF in NuGet package. Is it possible?
I packaged log4net support assembly for nuget.org: log4net.Ext.SerializableGitHub repository for interested.
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF in NuGet package. Is it possible?
It's certainly possible, there just seemed little point since BizTalk projects do not support NuGet. I don't know if they are finally supporting NuGet in BizTalk 2016. If so, it might now be...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF MSI File Fails to Import Biztalk Administrative console
Hi Tom, Will this apply to msi created by BTDF 5.6 for BizTalk 2013R2 ? If so, i am not getting any check box when i install the MSI. The MSI is created by TFS build using xaml where i included both...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF MSI File Fails to Import Biztalk Administrative console
Hi Uday, There is no reason to use BizTalk's built-in deployment tooling and the Deployment Framework for BizTalk. They are completely different. With the Deployment Framework, you do not import the...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF in NuGet package. Is it possible?
I checked now with BizTalk 2013 project in Visual Studio 2012 and when I install my log4net.Ext.Serializable package into .btproj project - it works. NuGet adds this to .btproj file:<Reference...
View ArticleNew Post: The "GenerateAssemblyNamesItemGroup" task failed unexpectedly -...
Hi I am getting below error while trying to deploy my biztalk 2013 project using BTDF C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\DeploymentFrameworkForBizTalk\5.0\BizTalkDeploymentFramework.targets(1514,5): error...
View ArticleNew Post: Special characters in password
Hi, I have special characters in passwords I'm setting. I use characters like & and <. I have set the passwords in my settingsFileGenerator.xml file (edited using Excel) yet when I try to...
View ArticleNew Post: Handling passwords with &
So are you saying to use & in a password I need to use & in the spreadsheet? What about <:? Does it need to go in as &:lt:? (I replaced ; with : because it gets parsed here)
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF Support for BizTalk 2016
Hi, I was asked to describe the changes I had to make. I'll try to list them briefly. 1) Use a custom wxs file, which is a copy of \Deployment Framework for BizTalk 5.6\Developer\GenericBizTalkMSI.wxs...
View ArticleNew Post: Policy Versioning
does BTDF support policy deployment without un-deploying old version of it?
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New Post: MSI Deploy Seems to be Doing Multiple Host-Instance Restarts
Running on BT2010 with 5.5 of BTDF. Why multiple restarts? Here's an example, We have two servers in Prod. Why any restarts when I told it not to? Also, I set the following in the first PropertyGroup...
View ArticleNew Post: Special characters in password
The solution is to use the entity reference in SettingsFileGenerator.xml. So if a password is &Hello you enter it as...&Hello
View ArticleNew Post: MSI Deploy to Two Servers - not GAC'ing on one
Did our first BTDF MSI deploy last night for this particular client. One one of the two servers, where the MSI was run without clicking the check box at the end... it installed the files in the...
View ArticleNew Post: BTDF Support for BizTalk 2016
Hi Sam, Came in here to post the steps, which I did to fix it, I see, you have inserted it eloquently, Adding to 5th point of Sam, Below are the deployment scripts for your convenience, Quick Deploy...
View ArticleNew Post: MSI Deploy Seems to be Doing Multiple Host-Instance Restarts
Hi Neal, Seems that CodePlex's email notification was broken until they unleashed weeks worth of them today. 1) I'm not seeing multiple restarts there. It's Stopping, Stopped, Starting, Started for...
View ArticleNew Post: MSI Deploy Seems to be Doing Multiple Host-Instance Restarts
Tom, Ok thanks, thought you were quieter than normal. I guess I was speedreading... I totally didn't notice the difference in the words "stopped" and "stopping"... thought it would just have one...
View ArticleNew Post: MSI Deploy Seems to be Doing Multiple Host-Instance Restarts
I believe I reduced the verbosity of those messages in v5.6. v5.6 introduces lots of new functionality, so I highly recommend that you upgrade. It looks like you have SkipHostInstance[no s]Restart....
View ArticleNew Post: MSI Deploy to Two Servers - not GAC'ing on one
I think problem here was there are two screens with "checkboxes". I mistook the checkbox that said "Start deploying to BizTalk when I finish" with the one that says "This is the LAST server in the...
View ArticleNew Post: MSI Deploy Seems to be Doing Multiple Host-Instance Restarts
Oh boy, spelling/typo errors. Thanks!
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