Unable to open Orchestration Designer in Visual Studio

We are developing BizTalk applications with Visual Studio Team Edition and every now and then for some reason the Orchestration Designer is removed from the "Open With" dialog, thus when one double clicks on an orchestration it is opened with the Xml Editor. Although I'm not sure why this happens, I suspected the items in this dialog were configured in the Windows Registry ... and so they were, so to fix:

1) Open RegEdit
2) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Editors and find the BizTalk Orchestration Designer for us it was under Guid {679b7fd6-2104-42b2-8d87-86dd575fc269}
3) Get the package key Guid, for us this was {2f926337-2bfb-46ab-bbc4-a955ce25ff6f}
4) Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{Package Key Guid}\SkipLoading
5) Set the SkipLoading key to 0
6) Restart Visual Studio and the Orchestration Designer should show up in the "Open With" list

Does anyone know why the SkipLoading key is mysterously turned on for the Orchestration Designer?

posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:55 PM

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# re: Unable to open Orchestration Designer in Visual Studio 8/21/2007 4:06 AM Adam Roderick

Thank you! What an annoyance when the orchestrations opened in the Xml Editor rather than the designer. For anyone else following these instructions, my Guids were all the same as those mentioned above.

# re: Unable to open Orchestration Designer in Visual Studio 9/23/2007 6:19 AM naga

Thanks, fix worked. I remember, last thing I did was clicked on error, it opened thro xml editor.

# re: Unable to open Orchestration Designer in Visual Studio 11/3/2008 3:14 AM vasa

I made the changes specified but still see the same issue.

I have created a SkipLoading dword and set to 0 at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{Package Key Guid}

restarted my Virtual PC image . but i still see the issue.

It happened before but when i removed the orchestration from project and readded it, it was fixed. but now its not.

Is there any other way to fix this issue?

# re: Unable to open Orchestration Designer in Visual Studio 12/22/2008 9:37 PM David Da Costa @ Avanade

Hi I had the same issue and even with the regedt32 > set SkipLoading key to 0 it wasn't working.

I solved the issue this way:

1) Launch the services console with the command: Services.msc
Restart the "Protected Storage" Service
(make sure it is in the automatic mode and started)

2) Restart IIS with the command : iisreset

3) Reset the Visual Studio loaded packages (in a Visual Studio Command Prompt) with the command: devenv.exe /setup /resetskippkgs

Hoping it helps
David Da Costa @ Avanade

# re: Unable to open Orchestration Designer in Visual Studio 1/15/2009 10:26 AM David Da Costa @ Avanade

Only set 3) and a VS restart also work sometime

# re: Unable to open Orchestration Designer in Visual Studio 9/29/2009 11:19 PM kumar

Hi,
I was also facing this same problem and fixed it by doing the followiong three steps as David Da Costa said.
1) Launch the services console with the command: Services.msc
Restart the "Protected Storage" Service
(make sure it is in the automatic mode and started)

2) Restart IIS with the command : iisreset

3) Reset the Visual Studio loaded packages (in a Visual Studio Command Prompt) with the command: devenv.exe /setup /resetskippkgs

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