MSBuild tasks now available for BizTalk Projects

Several people have asked me about support for MSBuild within BizTalk projects. So I'm happy to see that our team in the UK has just released some MSBuild tasks for BizTalk 2006. They are availalbe on GotDotNet.

 

(https://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=b4d6499f-0020-4771-a305-c156498db75e ).

There are tasks to do the following:

 

Export a current system to an MSBuild proj file.

Application

AddReferences	Adds a reference to an application
Create	Creates an application
Delete	Deletes an Application, and all its child objects
Exists	Checks if an application exists
RemoveReferences	Removes a reference from an application
Start	Starts an application
Stop	Stops an application

Assembly

Deploy	Deploys an assembly into BizTalk.
Exists	Checks whether an assembly is deployed in a BizTalk installation.
ExportBindings	Exports the bindings of an assembly in BizTalk to an XML file.
ImportBindings	Imports the bindings of an assembly into BizTalk from an XML file.
Undeploy	Undeploy an assembly from BizTalk.

Orchestration

Bind	Binds an orchestration
Enlist	Enlists the given instance of the BizTalk Orchestration.
Exists	Checks if an Orchestration exists in an assembly in BizTalk Server.
Start	Starts the given instance of the BizTalk Orchestration.
Stop	Stops the given instance of the BizTalk Orchestration.
TerminateInstances	Terminates any running instances of the BizTalk Orchestration.
UnBind	Unbind an orchestration
UnEnlist	UnEnlists the given instance of the BizTalk Orchestration.

ReceiveLocation

Configure	Configures a receive location
Exists	Checks if it exists

ReceivePort

AddReceiveLocation	Adds a receive location to this port
Configure	Configures a receive port
Create	Creates a receive port
Delete	Deletes a receive port
Exists	Checks if it exists
RemoveReceiveLocation	Removes a receive location

SendPort

Configure	Configures a send port
Create	Creates a send port
Delete	Deletes a send port
Enlist	Enlists a send port
Exists	Checks if it exists
Start	Starts a send port
Stop	Stops a send port
UnEnlist	Unenlists a send port

SendPortGroup

AddSendPort	Adds a send port to an existing send port group
Configure	Configures a send port group
Create	Creates a send port group
Delete	Deletes a send port group
Enlist	Enlists a send port group
Exists	Checks if it exists
RemoveSendPort	Removes a send port from the send port group
Start	Starts the group
Stop	Stops the group
UnEnlist	Unenlists the group

There are also 2004 tasks in the same assembly for those of you that don’t know they are there.

 

Cheers and keep on BizTalking

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