Monday, July 23, 2007

Couple of BizTalk 2006 Resources

These are worth your attention:

1) BizTalk Server Documenter - generates CHM documentation on BT artifacts (orchestrations, etc.) You'll need the Microsoft's Help Compiler in order to user it as well. Notice that you may need to make modification to the config file - depends on where you have the hcc.exe located. Works like charm with BT 2006, you can choose assemblies or even orchestrations that you want to document. It generates pictorial description of orchestrations too. Extremely helpful!

2) BizTalk Server Pattern Wizard - this one can be a bit tricky to set up and use. After download, execute the "BTPatternsWizardSS\BizTalkPatternWizards\Debug\setup.exe" to install the wizards into your VS. Then start a new project, and find the templates under "Biztalk Projects/Pattern Templates". I also highly recommend reading the "BTPatternsWizardSS\WizardDocumentation.doc" - it contains links to detailed descriptions of the patterns. Finally, there are videos (370MB) available which describe the patterns on examples.

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