Just been working on getting a BizTalk adapter to install using windows installer. I used the adpater wizard to create the adapter, which kindly provides a nice .reg file to handle the registry stuff. This is nice and easy to use in conjunction with the registry editor function of the setup project in VS.NET.
What I also wanted to do was add in support for getting the adapter to show up in the BizTalk admin and also remove it from there when you uninstall it. You can do this by using WMI in a custom action.
First what you need to do is add an installer class to your adapter project. You can do this using visual studio. This is covered in the documentataion.
Then you need to add in the following statment at the top. You also need to add in the System.Management assembly.
using System.Management;
For the install action, use the following, changing the relevant sections:
//Run the base class stuff.
base.Install(stateSaver);
try
{
PutOptions options = new PutOptions();
options.Type = PutType.CreateOnly;
//create a ManagementClass object and spawn a ManagementObject instance
ManagementClass newAdapterClass = new ManagementClass("root\\MicrosoftBizTalkServer", "MSBTS_AdapterSetting", null);
ManagementObject newAdapterObject = newAdapterClass.CreateInstance();
//set the properties for the Managementobject
newAdapterObject["Name"] = "<YOURADAPTER>";
newAdapterObject["Comment"] = "<Comment you want to appear in BizTalk>";
newAdapterObject["Constraints"] = "<Constraint Bit Mank>"; //Bitmask appears in registry file.
newAdapterObject["MgmtCLSID"] = "<Adapter Management Class Id>"; //Guid that appears in the registry file.
//create the Managementobject
newAdapterObject.Put(options);
System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Adapter has been created successfully");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
throw;
}
And the following for the uninstall:
try
{
ManagementClass adapterClass = new ManagementClass("root\\MicrosoftBizTalkServer", "MSBTS_AdapterSetting", null);
ManagementObjectCollection adapterObjects = adapterClass.GetInstances();
System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("We have {0} management objects", adapterObjects.Count.ToString());
foreach (ManagementObject adapterObject in adapterObjects)
{
System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Current adapter object is {0}", adapterObject["Name"].ToString());
if( adapterObject["Name"].ToString().ToUpper() == "<YOURADAPTER>" )
adapterObject.Delete();
}
System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Adapter has been removed successfully");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
throw;
}
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