Jean-Paul Smit

BizTalk Software Factory v2.0 released

I’m very happy to announce that today the BizTalk Software Factory v2.0 is released. This version is updated to work with BizTalk Server 2009.

The v2.0 release contains all functionality currently in the version suitable for BizTalk Server 2006 development.

It took a while to convert the BSF and make it work with BizTalk Server 2009. All kinds of small things are different in Visual Studio 2008, BizTalk Server 2009 and the Guidance Automation Extensions and Toolkit. One example is where the BizTalk application name is stored, namely in the btproj.user file. It was hard to get that right but D. Dijkstra found a way to do it.

To use the BSF v2.0 you need the following:

• Guidance Automation Extensions for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Update (GAXP1409)
• Guidance Automation Toolkit for Visual Studio 2008 - February 2008 Release
• Guidance Automation Extensions - February 2008 Release
• BSF v2.0
• BizUnit 3.1
• BizTalk Deployment Framework 5.0 beta
• Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.Extensions.dll (is in the reference folder that is part of the sources and should also be installed by the setup)

Optionally you can use nUnit 2.5.2 if you prefer nUnit over Visual Studio Unit Testing. The BSF v2.0 is capable of using both.

I would like to encourage you to take a look at it and please let me know what you think!

Published Mon, Sep 14 2009 11:15 PM by Jean-Paul Smit