With the launch of the release versions of Visual Studio 2005, and the gap to BTS 2006 we are in that intresting no mans land where we try to use the oldish and the new. This leads to a whole bunch of opinions such as 'You can't install Viz 2005 with BTS 2004'. Well we are trying and I intend to document the problems and the fixes as we go.
Problem 1: BizTalk 2004 Web services publishing tool will fail to generate web services!
Fix:
- Change the following registry key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\devenv.exe. from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
- Change the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\VisualStudio.Solution\CLSID to {246C57AE-40DD-4d6b-9E8D-B0F5757BB2A8}
- Reboot
Thanks to EvanderT for that....