BizTalk

Patching issue on SQL 2000 breaking BizTalk Deployment.

Campbell McNeill — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:24:00 GMT

Had this issues when I tried to deploy a BizTalk 2004 assembly to a recently patched SQL 2000 SP4 Instance:

[Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.DeploymentException] [System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException] Failed to load msxmlsql.dll. [System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException] Failed to load msxmlsql.dll.

A few sites pointed to potential fixes but these appeared to be red herrings. In the end our DBA re-applied SP4 and the issue was cleared up. Most bizarre. Will teach us to deploy security updates so quickly!

NAnt Deployment and Log4net for BizTalk

Campbell McNeill — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:46:00 GMT

All, Just to let you know that Scott Colestock has released new versions of many of his very useful tools.

Someone I know gets a notable mention with the log4net stuff too ;)

A noteable mention to Scott Colestock

Campbell McNeill — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 03:40:00 GMT

I'd like to take a moment to blog about the excellent work Scott Colestock is doing with regards to BizTalk supplemental tools

I've been working with both his Nant deployment script and his implementation of Log4net. Both are absolutly must haves for the BizTalk developer. If you haven't checked this stuff out then I sincerely hope that you do. Your life will be better with it!

I even updated his Log4net library to use the latest version. Hope he gets it up on his site soon

Many thanks for your good work Scott. Check him out at Trace of Thought

Useful BizTalk FAQ

Campbell McNeill — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 20:48:00 GMT

Enjoy: http://www.netologi.se/default.aspx?Contents=BizTalkFAQ

Adding / Removing a BizTalk Adapter using a Custom Action

Campbell McNeill — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 03:13:00 GMT

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;