BizTalk Deploy operation failed… Assembly “XY” references the following assemblies that must be deployed before deploying this assembly Assembly “YZ”

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I’m back with “Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions” and this time targeting developers – BizTalk Deploy operation failed – that work until late and they are a bit tired… believe me, It’s never a good recipe!

Today will I was deploying a BizTalk Server Solution from Visual Studio I had a rookie problem that, because I was tired, I took 20 minutes to find out the problem:

Severity Code Description Project File Line

Error Assembly “Finance.Orchestrations, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=d149e7c1ed8e238f” references the following assemblies that must be deployed before deploying this assembly:

Assembly “Staging.Orchestrations, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=d149e7c1ed8e238f”.

Deploy operation failed…

At Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.BizTalkAssembly.PrivateDeploy(String server, String database, String assemblyPathname, String applicationName)…

…

… a rookie problem that if you read carefully the error message you will know the problem.

Cause

Basically, this is a dependency problem… “Finance.Orchestrations” assembly references certain “Staging.Orchestrations” artifacts, and for this reason, this last assembly (Staging.Orchestrations) must be deployed before deploying the assembly that references these artifacts (Finance.Orchestrations).

When you deploy BizTalk assembly you must ensure that any referenced assembly is deployed first. BizTalk actually, helps you out, by enforcing that “deployment rule” by not letting you applying adding resource action without deploying all its references and that is the reason why this error is happens

Although I’m almost sure that I had deployed all the resources – common schemas, maps, and orchestrations – that was being consumed in this BizTalk Solution. When I decide to check if they were actually deployed in the environment, I found out that they weren’t… again a rookie mistake.

Solution

The solution to this problem is easy, make sure that all the dependencies are deployed before you deploy your solution.

In my case, I deployed the “Staging.Orchestrations” assembly and then I was able to indeed deploy the “Finance.Orchestrations”.

Author: Sandro Pereira

Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and works as a consultant at DevScope. In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premises and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size, and criticality, using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO etc. He is a regular blogger, international speaker, and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books all focused on Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices”. He has been awarded MVP since 2011 for his contributions to the integration community. View all posts by Sandro Pereira