I am using BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) for deploying my BizTalk solution. If I have made any changes to BizTalk bindings, I export them from BizTalk Administration Console and replace my PortBindingsMaster.xml bindings file (created by BTDF) with my exported bindings. I think many of you do the same. The problem is that when I do the export, BizTalk mixes up the order of XML nodes in bindings file, so when I am trying to merge with my source control, I'm getting over 9000 conflicts.
Is there any cool way to merge these BizTalk bindings?
Too much trouble trying to merge these. Get comfortable with the structure of a binding file and extract the parent node you need and copy it over to PortBindingsMaster.
The other problem with merging is if you use settingsfilegenerator, you'll need to merge that which can be potentially everywhere in PortBindingsMaster.
There's a coolway by using NotePad++ Pretty XML plugin. Apply pretty xml to both Binding Files.
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We are updating a BizTalk 2009 application that I inherited. I'm converting them into BizTalk 2013 R2.
I get the following reasonably famous error, when I try to re-compile
Exception Caught: Cannot load source/destination schema: MyCompany.Schema.AppConfig.
Either the file/type does not exist, or if a project dependency exists, the dependent project is not built.
There are only two posts in SOF related to this error:
Biztalk Map Destination Schema Imports Multiple Schemas
Reference trouble with BizTalk schema project in Visual Studio 2008
and only a few meaningful posts in elsewhere.
The solution has 4 projects organized as follows:
Common (contains an 1 schema AppConfig.xsd file)
Orchestration (1 Orchestration file)
Schema (references an ASMX web service)
Map (1 map file, references Schema and Common Projects)
The Map project attempts to translate an source message of type AppConfig to the type AppConfigBE which is one of the Complex Types in the Web Service.
I keep getting the compile time error above.
Tried all of the following, as recommended in the two SOF posts, and a few other posts on MSDN forums, but none of it worked.
Tried alternating Copy Local on the Maps project (From true to false, and vice-versa)
Tried Replacing schema on source and destination on the map file
Schemas are referenced using fully qualified .Net type name
Tried referencing the .dll as opposed to the Schema and Common projects.
Updated the web reference; also removed and re-added the web references
Is there a solution/hot fix etc for this? Any other suggestions I can try?
UPDATE 1:
We had to call Microsoft for help; the engineer took my project file to try on their computers; he said they too had the same problem and as a fix, recommended to set the Build Action property of the .BTM map file to None instead of BTSCompile. After this, the project builds successfully. He said to test the project with this build and let them know. What I'm not sure is, what are consequences of this? Many topics on Build Action refers to the schema files, not the map files in a BTS project. What is the standard Build Action for Map files?
One more item is to clear any Assemblies from the GAC or re-GAC them with a Post-Build script.
I ran into the same problem. I needed to add
using Microsoft.XLANGs.BaseTypes;
using Microsoft.BizTalk.XLANGs.BTXEngine;
[assembly: Microsoft.XLANGs.BaseTypes.BizTalkAssemblyAttribute(typeof(BTXService))]
to the AssemblyInfo.cs into the project.
I was trying to consume an already written WCF service into my BizTalk orchestration. But while configuring the ports and port types for the consumption, found that the 'WCF service consumption wizard' in Visual Studio offers HTTP transport-type as the only option and no WCF-BasicHttp/WCF-WSHttp transport-type options are available.
However, we can always do the required WCF-BasicHttp/WCF-WSHttp settings by importing the required bindings file from the BizTalk Admin Console, Is there a programmatic way for the developers to do the same from inside the Visual Studio (instead of specifying those bindings later from the Admin Console)?
The binding files are just XML, so you can create those programmatically. Modify the XML as you see fit, either by hand (e.g., in the built-in XML editor) or by using some sort of custom code.
Typically we use multiple binding files per environment, including one that just works with everything on localhost for developers. You just pick the one that you want and import it into BizTalk or write a script automatically import it for you (such as after build).
You can also take a look BizTalk Deployment Framework. For more of that.
Michael Stephenson has a great post on using MSBuild to automate your deployments, including the BizTalk binding files, here.
Can I generate entity framework model by clicking button in browser in client-side and save it back to web server PC?
EdmGen is the way to go if you're sure this is the best solution to your problem: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896270.aspx
If you're having problems with it could you please post the command line arguments you're using to call it?
You'll have to create a process in your web app (System.Diagnostics.Process) in order to kick off the executable from the browser side.
As David Neale says EmdGen is an option, if that is really what you want.
There is also EmdGen2, which has the advantage that it is able to work directly with the Edmx file:
EdmGen2 is a command-line tool for the
Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework.
The tool can be used as a replacement
for the EdmGen.exe tool that ships
with the .Net framework 3.5 SP1.
EdmGen.exe can only read and write the
CSDL, SSDL & MSL file formats.
However, EdmGen2.exe can read and
write the EDMX file format used by the
Visual Studio design tools.
Additionally, EdmGen2.exe can
translate between EDMX and CSDL, SSDL
& MSL formats, and the source code can
act as examples on using the tooling
APIs defined in the
System.Data.Entity.Design assembly.
Additionaly, EdmGen2.exe contains some
experimental functionality not found
in EdmGen.exe. Ankit Malpani, an
intern with Microsoft Research in
summer of 2008, and James Terwilliger,
a Post Doc researcher with MSR,
updated EdmGen2.exe with the ability
to identify inheritance
relatationships in relational database
schema. You can access this
functionality by using the
"RetrofitModel" option. The
RetrofitModel option connects to a
database instance and constructs an
EDM model (csdl, msl, ssdl, and edmx
files) that includes inheritance. The
tool uses data mining techniques to
identify TPT and TPH patterns in the
database instance, as well as vertical
partitioning, and constructs a
suitable model and mapping. To use the
tool, launch EdmGen2 with the
following arguments:
Simple task, but for some reason no simple solution just yet.
We've all got web.config files - and I haven't worked anywhere yet that doesn't have the problem where someone yells across the room "Sh*t, I've just uploaded the wrong web.config file".
Is there a simple way of being able to auto generate a web.config file that will contain the right things for copying to release? An example of these being:
Swap connection string over to use live database
Change
Switch over to use the live/release logging system, and live/release security settings
(in our case we need to change the SessionState mode to InProc from StateServer - this isn't normal)
If you have others, let me know and I'll update it here so it's easy for someone else to find
Maintaining 2 config files works, but is a royal pain, and is usually the reason something's gone wrong while you're pushing things live.
Visual Studio 2010 supports something like this. Check it out here.
How are you deploying your builds. In my environment, this used to be a pain point too, but now we use cruisecontrol.net and script our builds in nant. In our script, we detect the environment and have different versions of the config settings for each environment. See: http://www.mattwrock.com/post/2009/10/22/The-Perfect-Build-Part-3-Continuous-Integration-with-CruiseControlnet-and-NANT-for-Visual-Studio-Projects.aspx for my blogpost onthe subject of using cruisecontrol.net for build management. Skip to the end fora brief description of how we handle config versions.
In my most recent project I wrote a PowerShell script which loaded the web.config file, modified the necessary XML elements, and saved the file back out again. A bit like this:
param($mode, $src)
$ErrorActionPreference = "stop"
$config = [xml](Get-Content $src)
if ($mode -eq "Production")
{
$config.SelectSingleNode("/configuration/system.web/compilation").SetAttribute("debug", "false")
$config.SelectSingleNode("/configuration/system.web/customErrors").SetAttribute("mode", "off")
$config.SelectSingleNode("/configuration/system.net/mailSettings/smtp/network").SetAttribute("host", "live.mail.server")
$config.SelectSingleNode("/configuration/connectionStrings/add[#name='myConnectionString']").SetAttribute("connectionString", "Server=SQL; Database=Live")
}
elseif ($mode -eq "Testing")
{
# etc.
}
$config.Save($src)
This script overwrites the input file with the modifications, but it should be easy to modify it to save to a different file if needed. I have a build script that uses web deployment projects to build the web app, outputting the binaries minus the source code to a different folder - then the build script runs this script to rewrite web.config. The result is a folder containing all the files ready to be placed on the production server.
XSLT can be used to produce parameterized xml files. Web.config being xml file this approach works.
You can have one .xslt file(having xpath expressions).
Then there can be different xml files like
1. debug.config.xml
2. staging.config.xml
3. release.config.xml
Then in the postbuild event or using some msbuild tasks the xslt can be combined with appropriate xml files to having different web.config.
Sample debug.config.xml file can be
<Application.config>
<DatabaseServer></DatabaseServerName>
<ServiceIP></ServiceIP>
</Application.config>
.xslt can have xpaths referring to the xml given above.
Can have a look at the XSLT transformation This code can be used in some MSBuild tasks or nant tasks and different web.config's can be produced depending on the input config xml files.
This way you just have to manage the xml files.
There is only one overhead that the xslt file which is similar to web.config need to be managed. i.e whenever there is any tag getting added in the web.config the xslt also needs to be changed.
I don't think you can 100% avoid this.
The last years of work ever and ever shows: where human worked, there are fails.
So, here are 3 ideas from my last company, not the best maybe, but better then nothing:
Write an batch file or an C#.Net Application that change your web.config on a doubleclick
Write a "ToDo on Release"-List
Do pair-realesing (== pair programming while realease :))
I'm using selenium to run some functional tests on the UI for our current application.
I want to ensure that strings from the resource files in the Web project are being displayed at the correct time and place.
Simple (I thought) all I have to do is reference the assembly of the web application and assert that the text selenium is reading from the UI matches the test in the approriate resource file.
The problem is the ASP.Net does some precomilation processing on the resource files and compiles them into an assembly called App_GlobalResources, which isn't created by the normal build process so the functional tests fail because that can't find the App_GlobalResources assembly to look the string up from.
So, any suggestions? Do I need to abandon the App_GlobalResources approach and do something manual that I have control over?
Do you understand the problem or do I need to provide more info?
My interim solution is to use SVN:Externals to pull a copy of the resx files into the test project.
I can then access them via
ResourceManager resource = new System.Resources.ResourceManager("My.Web.Namespace.resources.ImageUrls", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
Its ugly because I already have a reference to the webproject (which I can probably remove now...) and I don't like mixing source files between projects. It just feels like asking for trouble but until someone suggests something better this will have to do.
Have you considered moving your GlobalResources into a separate assembly and then referencing that from both your web project and your test project? This is quite easy to do in VS 2008, and achievable but a little more difficult in VS 2005.
I was able to solve a similar problem using that approach.