BizTalk 2020 Deployment

Patrick Wellink, a long-time BizTalk Server consultant from the Netherlands, asked me to broadcast this news. I'm happy to do it because I know that many of you use and like BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) to perform deployment across your environments.

Patrick suppresses a need by developing a Visual Studio 2019 plugin (VSIX) for BizTalk Server 2020. Of course, there was already a new version of The BTDF Framework. But one of the convenient things was the visual studio plugin... that was missing.

Unfortunately, and I understand this feeling entirely because I also have several community projects, we always have to for the owner and developer to upgrade his project, and we usually struggle to find the time. So I take this opportunity to encourage all community members to start contributing to these initiatives as Patrick did. Start performing changes and submit your contributions to the repo. I speak for myself, and from what I know from the community, we accept the changes and are happy that you contribute.

And it wasn't that difficult, rephrasing Patrick:

With some guidance of this post and some fiddeling I got the VSIX to work for VS2019. After some more fiddeling I got the project wizard to run as well.

I did so with minimal effort.

With some guidance of this post and some fiddeling I got the VSIX to work for VS2019. After some more fiddeling I got the project wizard to run as well.

I did so with minimal effort. 

You can download the Visual Studio 2019 plugin (VSIX) for BizTalk Server 2020 here:

https://github.com/BTDF/ToolsForVisualStudio/files/6824382/DeploymentFrameworkForBizTalkToolsForVS2019.zip