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Setting Up Continuous Integration, Automated Unit Tests, and MSI Packaging in BizTalk 2009

With BizTalk Server 2009, setting up integration with Team Foundation Server (TFS) has become much simpler. While setting up continuous integration, automated unit tests, and msi packaging was possible before BizTalk 2009 it was a huge pain. Below I will walk through the steps to set this up with BizTalk 2009. I was able to get this up and running in about 30 hours including the time...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2009 6:06 AM by Stephen W. Thomas

Filed under: testing, BizTalk 2009, Continous Integration

Follow-up on Enabling BizTalk Unit Testing for Schemas and Maps

This is a follow up to my post yesterday . I was setting up some automated unit tests for BizTalk 2009 in Release mode. I received the following errors. CIDemo.Schemas.InputSchema does not contain a definition for 'ValidateInstance' and no extension method 'ValidateInstance' accepting a first argument of type 'CIDemo.Schemas.InputSchema' could be found (are...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2009 7:37 PM by Stephen W. Thomas

Filed under: testing, BizTalk 2009

ValidateInstance Not Found When Setting Up BizTalk 2009 Unit Tests

Today I was setting up Unit Tests for BizTalk 2009 Schema and Maps. I was using the BizTalk Server 2009 help guide example as a reference. I ran into the following error message: <Class Name> does not contain a definition for 'ValidateInstance' and no extension method 'ValidateInstance' accepting a first argument of type <Class Name> could be found (are you missing...

Published Mon, Apr 13 2009 8:55 PM by Stephen W. Thomas

Filed under: testing, BizTalk 2009

How To Add BizUnit Snippets Into Visual Studios 2005

Recently I have been working a lot with BizUnit 2.0 (Available on GotDotNet ). This framework provides an easy and customizable way to unit test your end to end BizTalk solutions. I’ll not get into details about BizUnit right now since this post is focused on Visual Studios 2005 Code Snippets. Young Jun has developed a set of code snippets for BizUnit 2.0 for use with Visual Studios 2005. Although...

Published Thu, Jul 20 2006 8:56 AM by Stephen W. Thomas

Filed under: bizunit, visual studios, testing

Load Generation Tool For Testing BizTalk Server

A few days ago Microsoft released a Load Generation tool to help simulate load for testing Biztalk 2004 solutions. You can download this testing tool here . It seems that the installation package defaults the installation path for the testing tool to something other then your C drive. In one case, my installation went to my E:\ drive and in the other two cases it went to my D:\ drive. Just make sure...

Published Sat, Aug 27 2005 3:15 PM by Stephen W. Thomas

Filed under: biztalk, testing

Performance Testing Tool for Biztalk

Larry Beck from Avanade has released a Biztalk Throughput and Capacity Testing Tool for testing Biztalk Performance. This tool will automatically generate files for you to submit them into Biztalk. In addition, it will track server parameters in a nice graph. It’s configurable through a UI. You can get more information on his blog or on the GotDotNet workspace. Who is Larry Beck? He is a Connected...

Published Fri, Aug 5 2005 1:05 PM by Stephen W. Thomas

Filed under: biztalk, performance, testing

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