Project Description
BizTalk Config Explorer automates the creation of technical documentation for BizTalk based solutions by extracting configuration data and visualize this data on a web site. A live example of the tool can be found
here.
The solution consists of two different tools; a command line based tool (CE client) that allows for read BizTalk installations, configurations and persist them to this. A web application that reads the different versions of the documentation from disk and
shows the information on an easy-to-read web page.
The CE client will read your current installation and configuration, give it a unique version number and persist a set of files to disk. The execution of the command line tool can be done manually or scheduled. This allows showing all available versions
of the documentation in the BizTalk Config Explorer web application and make it possible to easily switch between them.
The tool will in the current version (1.0) document the following BizTalk artifacts.
- Receive ports
- Send ports
- Orchestrations
- Maps
- Schemas
- Pipelines
- Assemblies
Getting started
Requirements
- .NET 4
- IIS 7.5
- BizTalk Server 2006 +
Setup
- Download the latest package from here and unzip at any location on a machine that has BizTalk Server installed.
- Run the command client found in the “Client” folder in the solution using the following command.
ce –export
By default the client will try and find a local BizTalk Configuration database. If you have a setup with separate database server or other specific setting run
ce –help to see info on the different options.
The CE client will save the set of configuration files to the folder above the folder it executes in, this can be changed using the
–folder parameter when running the CE client to set the path to any export folder.
- Point a IIS stand alone web site, or a application in a exiting web site, to the folder named Web in the package. By default the web application will look for exported documentation files in a folder above the folder it executes in. This can however be
changed in the web.config suing the DocumentsFolder appSettings key.
Still having problems? Read the installation FAQ
here, if you can’t find the answer there send us a
mail.
Contribute!
Make sure to post any found bug and request and to the
Issue Tracker and send any other type of feedback
here.