I was thinking about developing a single application that encapsulates some power utility features and management functionality rolled into one for administering and developing within the BizTalk space.
Some of the features I was thinking about include:
- Wizard style project creation utility:
- conforms to best practice BizTalk developer implementation standards
- includes SDC targeted Build tasks (including Rules Engine MSBUILD tasks
- Strong Name keys generated and referenced at solution or project level
- and maybe even BizUnit unit test projects included.
- the ability to save wizard settings as template for future reference, or creation of Pattern based implementations
- Local / Remote Event Viewer
- Registry tweaks (i.e. Rules Engine) apply if local / export if remote instance of BizTalk
- XPath statement generator
- SSO Configuration Data Editor
I should be creating a project on www.codeplex.com soon, but would love to hear some ideas of functionality you would like to see in such a utility.