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AmitaBarge1gmailcom
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Aug 21, 2020

Deployment Framework for BizTalk 2020

I installed Biztalk deployment framework 5.8 on dev machine. Does anybody installed the BTDF extension for VS 2019 ?  I am not able to find the installable on the vistual studio market place .    ...
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tfabraham
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Aug 24, 2020

AmitaBarge1gmailcom​ Update: the Visual Studio 2019 extension is available as of January 2026.

v5.8 of the Framework itself is available in release candidate form for BizTalk 2020.

 

You can follow the VS extension https://github.com/BTDF/ToolsForVisualStudio.

 

Thanks,

Thomas Abraham

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    glav27
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 08, 2021

    tfabraham - I have installed the BTDF V5.8 to be used for BizTalk 2020 upgrade/migration project. 

    Although the build path had to be changed to the VS2019 current\bin folder inorder to build, I am facing an issue with the deployment with the error as below.

    BizTalkDeploymentFramework.targets(1769,3): error MSB4067: The element <ItemDefinitionGroup> beneath element <Project> is unrecognized. 

    Upon further checking the files, it has below code; which wasnt in the v5.7. What is the use of this below code and how to resolve the error MSB4067? 

    <ItemDefinitionGroup>
    <IISAppPool>
    <DotNetFrameworkVersion>v4.0</DotNetFrameworkVersion>
    <PipelineMode>Integrated</PipelineMode>
    <Enable32Bit>False</Enable32Bit>
    <IdentityType>ApplicationPoolIdentity</IdentityType>
    <DeployAction>$(IISAppPoolDefaultDeployAction)</DeployAction>
    <UndeployAction>$(IISAppPoolDefaultUndeployAction)</UndeployAction>
    </IISAppPool>
    </ItemDefinitionGroup>

    <ItemDefinitionGroup>
    <IISApp>
    <SiteName>Default Web Site</SiteName>
    <DeployAction>CreateOrUpdate</DeployAction>
    <UndeployAction>Delete</UndeployAction>
    </IISApp>
    </ItemDefinitionGroup>

    • besserg's avatar
      besserg
      Copper Contributor
      May 20, 2021
      glav27 - resolved the above issue by using the packaged framework assemblies included in "MyBTProject\1.0\Deployment\Framework" with the 5.7 versions (e.g.: BizTalkDeploymentFramework.Tasks.dll). Something when packaging from VS2019 has those assemblies on a different build version, reverting them resolved the problem for us. Would be great to have these work by default for BT2020 and VS2019 🙂
      • besserg's avatar
        besserg
        Copper Contributor
        Jun 13, 2021

        glav27 - Resolved the problem by modifying C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\DeploymentFrameworkForBizTalk\5.0\BizTalkDeploymentFramework.targets

        from
        <Target Name="SetToolsVersionParam">
        <CreateProperty Value="/tv:12.0" Condition="'$(MSBuildToolsVersion)' == '12.0'">
        <Output TaskParameter="Value" PropertyName="ToolsVersionParam" />
        </CreateProperty>
        </Target>

        to
        <Target Name="SetToolsVersionParam">
        <CreateProperty Value="/tv:4.0" Condition="'$(MSBuildToolsVersion)' == '4.0'">
        <Output TaskParameter="Value" PropertyName="ToolsVersionParam" />
        </CreateProperty>
        </Target>

        then the generated MSI works as expected :+1:

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    CFBurns
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 12, 2020
    Anxious for release. Thank you for link.

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