Deploy BizTalk application using MsBuild

 
 

I need to automate The BizTalk deployment process for my current client. Surprisely, the BizTalk project file created by VS.net 2005 and 2008 doesn’t work with MsBuild. Although Scott Colestock developed a framework to deploy BizTalk using Nant, I really like a solution to MsBuild BizTalk projects.

 
 

There are a few solutions discussed and developed by a few folks. The SDC Tasks Library
is very close to what I need as long as it works as it claims. One of great examples comes from Stephen Thomas’s blog. He used this task library ( Please not the original library is not available from GotDotNet web site ) to demonstrate that it possible to stop and remove a BizTalk application, create receive and send ports, start BizTalk application etc. using MsBuild customized tasks. One thing that doesn’t work in his example is to import a binding file although he can create send/receive ports. I got a workaround solution using BTSTask. I replaced the ImportBinding target with the following XML and successfully imported the binding file.

 
 

<Target
Name=“ImportBinding“ >

            <Exec
Command =‘“$(BTSInstallLocation)\BTSTask” ImportBindings /ApplicationName:$(BTApplicationName) /Source:c:\SampleDeployment\Binding\Binding.xml‘/>

</Target>  

 
 

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