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You may all remember Richard Seroter BizTalk SendPort Duplicator tool and how he descrived that frequently during development, and even in production, we have a need to create new BizTalk ports that are virtually identical to an existing one where we just need to change some small configurations like:

  • Address/URI;
  • Send Port Filter criteria;
  • Different pipelines or pipeline components configuration;
  • And so on.

And by default, the only options we have are:

  • Export the application binding files, manually clean the file and change the values; And then import the Binding file again;
  • Or manually recreate the entire port again;

Both options are time-consuming and need a lot of manually work.

And Richard Seroter was, and still is, an amazing lifesaving tool that allows you to duplicate send ports easily, so why a new tool?

“BizTalk Port Multiplier Tool” it has all Richard tool functionalities but is more than a Send Port Duplicator, and that is the reason I decided to create a new tool.

“BizTalk Port Multiplier Tool” is a simple tool that aims to simplify port “cloning” process by allowing you to easily “clone or duplicate” any existing port: Receive Port or Send Port.

  • Send Ports are easy, you only need to give a different name to the port, and you can clone it;

Devscope BizTalk Port Multiplier tool Send Ports

  • Receive Ports are tricky because they may contain several Receive Locations and the URI needs to be unique;

Devscope BizTalk Port Multiplier tool

This tool will extend default BizTalk Server capabilities transforming the tedious and sometimes complicate port creation based on an existing one a little simple and easy allowing you to:

  • Create a new Receive Port based on an existing one;
    • It will also export the binding file from that new Receive Port;
  • Create a new Send Port based on an existing one;
    • It will also export the binding file from that new Send Port;
  • Generate different binding files for each environment

Why do I need to “clone” a Receive Port?

Sometimes you also need to create a receive port with similar configurations of an existing one, also changing only few configurations or simple the URI and instead of manually recreating you can have 90% of the process done automatically.

Sometimes is practical, sometimes or in some scenarios it may not work but in most of the cases it will. So it is basically a best-effort operation and not an exact clone because they may have several Receive Locations and the Address/URI needs to be unique. So, you then need to go to each receive location and reconfigure them.

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Credits also to my team member at DevScope, Pedro Almeida that collaborated in the development of this tool.

You can download BizTalk Port Multiplier Tool from:
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GitHub

Or from:
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