BizTalk Management / Power Utility - Business Process and Integration
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:32 AM benniewentzel

BizTalk Management / Power Utility

I was thinking about developing a single application that encapsulates some power utility features and management functionality rolled into one for administering and developing within the BizTalk space.

Some of the features I was thinking about include:

  •  Wizard style project creation utility:
    • conforms to best practice BizTalk developer implementation standards
    • includes SDC targeted Build tasks (including Rules Engine MSBUILD tasks
    • Strong Name keys generated and referenced at solution or project level
    • and maybe even BizUnit unit test projects included.
    • the ability to save wizard settings as template for future reference, or creation of Pattern based implementations
  • Local / Remote Event Viewer
  • Registry tweaks (i.e. Rules Engine) apply if local / export if remote instance of BizTalk
  • XPath statement generator
  • SSO Configuration Data Editor
I should be creating a project on www.codeplex.com soon, but would love to hear some ideas of functionality you would like to see in such a utility.

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# re: BizTalk Management / Power Utility

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:31 AM by riaan

I think there is some cool ideas there. The XPath generator would be awsome!

# re: BizTalk Management / Power Utility

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:02 AM by Connie

Hey sounds good - what about adding the BizTalk MessageViewer HAT Plugin to your power utility - found it on Nabeel's blog and really works nicely!

# re: BizTalk Management / Power Utility

Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:16 AM by Nabeel

Excellent idea Bennie.  Check out the BizTalk Software Factory at http://www.codeplex.com/bsf for some existing work around the project creation utility, but taking a different approach.

Other ideas:

- Rules Tester

- Vocab updater (as per www.topxml.com/.../re-2703_Microsoft-BizTalk-2004-Business-Rules-Engine-Utility-to-Create-Updated-Policy-Versions-From-Updated-Voacbularies-.aspx)

- Sidebar area on the application (like Outlook's task sidebar) with

=> a continuous update of the event viewer, configurable to filter on specific events, e.g. all BizTalk tasks, and all error and warning events

=> configurable file watcher, which listens for the creation of files (possibly with configurable file masks) in specific directories and displays these files as they are created

That should keep you busy for now! :-)

If you are looking for "partners in crime" let me know.

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