Jean-Paul Smit

Azure - BizTalk - WCF- WF
New release of BizTalk Deployment Framework

The guys from the well known BizTalk Deployment Framework have been working very hard lately. Last year there was a version 5.0 beta for BizTalk 2009 solutions and BizTalk 2006 developers had to use version 4.0.

A few days ago they released a new beta of version 5.0 which supports not only BizTalk Server 2009 but also BizTalk Server 2006 and 2006 R2! I’m very happy with these great improvements because v4.0 was much more complex than the beta of v5.0 last year and now they even improved the v5.0 of last year.

I definitely need to dive into this, because the BizTalk Software Factory relies on the BDF for deployment. I already started to fix some x64 issues and now I can integrate the latest version of the BDF as well.

Published Tue, Feb 23 2010 12:01 PM by Jean-Paul Smit

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# re: New release of BizTalk Deployment Framework@ Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:43 AM

Hi Jean-Paul,

Actually, version 5.0 has _always_ supported BizTalk 2006, 2006 R2 and, as of May 2009, BizTalk 2009.  Support for BizTalk 2004 was dropped with version 5.0.

Thanks!

Thomas F. Abraham

Thomas F. Abraham

# re: New release of BizTalk Deployment Framework@ Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:25 AM

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your remark. When I developed the BizTalk Software Factory for BizTalk 2006 only v4 of the BDF was available. I wasn't aware that BDF v5 supported BizTalk 2006 as well.

Thanks again.

Jean-Paul

Jean-Paul Smit