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Further to my post about deploying BizTalk solution using Octopus found here, this post will describe the substitution of variables in Octopus 3.0 release. In Octopus 2.x.x release, we had Octopus.Platform.dll which gets the variable information from the octopus database, however in octopus 3.0 this feature is removed and not included any more.

This will prevent us to use “Substitute variables in files” process template available on Octopus community. To overcome this issue, I’ve to write custom power shell script to replace variable. Yes, there is in-built substitute variable feature in octopus, apparently we cannot use it, because BizTalk deployment is slightly different from .Net.

Here is the script to substitute variables in files. You need to include all the variables in the below power shell script.

This is the custom variable replacement function”:

$TargetFile=”C:Program Files (x86)ABC for BizTalk1.0DeploymentEnvironmentSettingsSettingsFileGenerator.xml”
Function ReplaceInFile($TargetFile, [HashTable] $Values){

if ( (Test-Path $TargetFile ) -eq $false){
throw “The target file ‘$($TargetFile)’ does not exist.”
}

Write-Host ” — Starting custom transformation for $($TargetFile)”

$fileContent = Get-Content $TargetFile
$Values.GetEnumerator() | ForEach-Object {
Write-Host “Replacing [$($_.Key)] with [$($_.Value)]”
$fileContent = $fileContent -replace $_.Key, $_.Value
}

[IO.File]::WriteAllText($TargetFile, ($fileContent -join “`r`n”))
}

This is how it is called:

$SitesConfigFile = $TargetFile
ReplaceInFile -TargetFile $SitesConfigFile -Values @{
‘#{SsoAppUserGroup}’ = $SsoAppUserGroup;
‘#{SsoAppAdminGroup}’ = $SsoAppAdminGroup;
}

If someone has a better approach then please let me know.

Thanks,

Shadab Anwer

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