Overview
The BizTalk Software Factory supplies guidance for developing BizTalk applications.
It is build using the February 2008 release of the Guidance Automation Extensions and the Guidance Automation Toolkit.
This can be downloaded here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718949.aspx
The BizTalk Software Factory guides you through the process of creating a project structure and assists with adding artifacts to the project solution.
When creating the solution you can choose between a multi project solution or a single project solution where the artifacts are grouped into folders instead of projects.
History
This release is based on the project Dick Dijkstra started a year ago on CodePlex (BASF).
Dick did a great job starting the project and figuring out some of the hard to learn basics.
Now the release is extended with functionality and more is to come in next releases.
Features
This release contains the following functionality:
- Schemas (adding project type and guidance)
- Maps (adding project type and guidance)
- Orchestrations (adding project type and guidance)
- Pipelines (adding project type and guidance)
- Pipeline Component Wizard ( (adding project type and guidance)
- Business Components (for example for helper and logging components)
- Solution folders for BRE artifacts Rules and Policies
- Support for generating Unit Tests for artifacts Schemas, Maps and Orchestrations
Current Release v1.6
This contains extra:
- BizTalk Deployment Framework integration
What to do with this release?
This release can be used to develop BizTalk solutions using a consistent solution structure.
It is very difficult to test every part of the BizTalk Software Factory, so if you find anything that isn't right, could be better or just isn't functioning then please let me know.
Also if you have great ideas please tell me and I'll try to implement them.
This release consists of the source code and some basic documentation.
Have fun!
Future Plans
The next version will support BizTalk Server 2009 and have some new features