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AmitaBarge1gmailcom
Copper Contributor
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 . 

 

Any help is appreciated .

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  • tfabraham's avatar
    tfabraham
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 21, 2026

    As of January 2026, an official Visual Studio 2019 extension for the Deployment Framework for BizTalk is available via the Visual Studio Extension Manager and on the Visual Studio Marketplace website.

  • DATA_Passion_GmbH's avatar
    DATA_Passion_GmbH
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 13, 2020

    Hallo zusammen,

     

    wir haben die BTDF Extensions  für VS 2019 migrieren können. Wer dies auch machen möchte, hier eine kurze Einleitung, wie das für uns funktioniert hat.

    https://datapassion.de/index.php/dpnews/btdf-extentions-for-vs-2019-biztalk-deployment-framework-2020-visual-studio-2019-extentions 

    Bitte beachtet, dass dies nur ein Workaround ist, bis der Autor eine offizielle Version uns allen zur Verfügung stellt.

    Bei Fragen meldet Euch bei uns - DATA Passion GmbH

     

     

  • DATA_Passion_GmbH's avatar
    DATA_Passion_GmbH
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 13, 2020

    Hi all,

    we have a solution how to run BTDF 2020 Extensions under VS 2019: 

    https://datapassion.de/index.php/dpnews/btdf-extentions-for-vs-2019-biztalk-deployment-framework-2020-visual-studio-2019-extentions

    Please consider this is just a workaround until we all have the official version.

     

    I hope we can help.

     

    Let's make integration smart today

     

     

     

     

    • theman512's avatar
      theman512
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 02, 2021
      I am building the BTDF.ToolsForVisualStudio and getting the following error;
      Error: The "ResolveComReference" task returned false but did not log an error.
      project name: DeploymentFrameworkForBizTalkAddin
      I really appreciate any help you can provide.
      • besserg's avatar
        besserg
        Copper Contributor
        Jul 08, 2021

        theman512 Do you have all the dependencies installed on the host you're trying to build the project?

    • andreicorovei's avatar
      andreicorovei
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 29, 2021

      DATA_Passion_GmbH 

       

      Attempting to install Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.15.0 latest version will not work because one of the dependent packages is built just for .net core. To workaround this, install version 16.0.28729.

    • Dileep_Nagaraju's avatar
      Dileep_Nagaraju
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 21, 2021

      Hi DATA_Passion_GmbH ,

       

      I tried installing the btdf extension for VS 2019 but facing the following issue while building the solution. Could you pls help me with this.


      Error CS0006 Metadata file 'D:\Softwares\ToolsForVisualStudio-master\ToolsForVisualStudio-master\src\AddIn.ProjectWizard\bin\Debug\DeploymentFxForBizTalkAddin.ProjectWizard.dll' could not be found DeploymentFrameworkForBizTalkAddin.ProjectWizard.Test D:\Softwares\ToolsForVisualStudio-master\ToolsForVisualStudio-master\src\AddIn.ProjectWizard.Test\CSC 1 Active

       

      Thanks in advance!

       

      Regards,

      Dileep N

  • tfabraham's avatar
    tfabraham
    Copper Contributor
    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

    • glav27's avatar
      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 🙂
    • CFBurns's avatar
      CFBurns
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 12, 2020
      Anxious for release. Thank you for link.

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