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Guys,
Anyone knows how to have Biztalk project templates and ability to create BT project in VS2005 without having BizTalk server. Just like many of us have DB remotely, can I also have BizTalk server remotely in my network and not on my workstation.
I have been told that we need biztalk server installed on the machine if I want to create biztalk server. Currently, everyone in my team uses one development machine and use remote desktop to connect and work on various project. It is very hard to source control and lots of other dependency. I am sure there must be better solution than this. I want to keep my workstation as "light' as possible. Any suggestions will be hightly appriciated.
Thank you guys.
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Nehal,
I've worked with Remote Desktop too, but it was not a good environment to work on, since I had to share the computer with another developer, who was working on that machine at the same time. Besides a performance degrade, we had to do a lot of coordination when it came to deployment and restarting of services.
Instead of using RDP, you could use Virtual PC. With VPC you can create an image containing everything you need to work on your BizTalk project. Before using the image, you create a copy of it. This way you have a nice clean image which you can use for new projects or new members on the team.-
Thank you for your reply. Yes, virtual PC is one option and I do have VM ware installed on my machine too. However, i noticed the VM ware can not use all the memory available in the syatem and all the tools running on VMWare(Biztalk, VS IDE, SQL Server…etc) will be in the memory allocated to VM ware. Performance is degraded in this case also.
I learned that, by default, MS does not provide the templates that will enable developer to work on Biztalk project without having Biztalk installed on the machine. However, I would appriciate if someone can tell me if there is any third party tool or utility awailable that can help me do that. If not, what is the installation requirement(minimum) that can provide me all the development and testint support?
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I use VPC 2004, 2007 and VM Ware workstation 5. I prefer vmware because it handles memory better when you use a farm. If you are using a BizTalk, SQL configuration on one instance, VPC is fine. I have images using 500mb up to 1.2Gb of RAM for BTS depending on available memory. However, on a 2 Gig machine, I've run a DC, SQL, and 2 BTS servers (that's 4 servers) with RAM to spare using vm ware. I'm running a DC, SQL, Oracle, and a single BTS server on a 3 Gig platform with no issues, all on VPC 2007. This runs on a Win 2003 host, but XP or Vista work just as well.
Virtualization is cleaner and easier, but only when you have the horsepower. Don't try this on a 1Gig machine with a slow hard disk.
Other suggestions: External fast hard drive over USB 2, Firewire, SATA II. Use a virtual pagefile disk to keep the pagefile from fragmenting the data drive. Store SQL and Oracle data on a separate virtual disk. If you don't use virtualization for dev, you should give it a try IMHO and learn how it best works for you. Then tell everyone you know how great it is. J
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Dont worry so much about RAM, I have a 1 gig machine so what i did is used the VPC to install everything..my host OS is very thin and all i have running on this is outlook. The performance is slow, but acceptable. I allocated 520 MB for the VPC but i think it can go more. Interesting to note that a faster hard drive will improve performance coz of faster paging..never thought of that :D.
-Mahesh
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