Hey, just working through the MS Course 2158A, doing these courses is a good way to tidy up loose ends and discovered the BTSAsmExt.dll = the Biztalk Assembly Viewer.


This little utility allow one to see those assemblies and their componentswhich have been installed into the GAC but what I find it useful for is that it’s a nice & quicklittle way to view all the xml which makes up orchestrations and their correlation sets, messages & variables, maps, schemas, pipelines and physical ports (as opposed to logical orchestration ports).


It’s aslo good for:


– Seeing which assemblies have been deployed


– View assembly attributes such as version


– See if an assembly has any referenced assemblies


– Add/Remove assemblies


– Launching the Biztalk Deployment Wizard


To install it … http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/deploying/htm/ebiz_depl_assemblies_pade.asp


Once installed look under MyComputers in Windows Explorer for Biztalk Server Assemblies


R. Addis