BizTalk 2006 project templates disappeared from VS 2005

Question

Hi, I'm spending a long arduous task learning, installing and configuring BizTalk 2006.

I've installed all the pre-requisites, installed BizTalk (without configuring) and the VS 2005 project templates for BizTalk were there. I configure BizTalk, getting everything installed (bit by bit as the log file kept filling) and now the VS 2005 project templates have disappeared!!!

I've tried a BizTalk repair to no avail.

Any ideas? Would it be better to remove, reinstall, or are there any tweaks?

Also, the BAMAnalysis db doesn't appear in SQL 2005 despite , all other dbs are present. In BizTalk Config database view, for BAM Tools, the BAMAnalysis and BAMStarSchema dbs have a white background, all others are grey. All fetures have the green tick icon.

advice appreciated.
Brian

Answer 1

Hi,

This is a strange issue, never experienced this.  If BizTalk failed in repair, then the option left is to resinstall BizTalk again.  Do you see anything related to this in event log.

Regards,

Tariq Majeed

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Answer 2

Do you have VS 2010 or VS 2008 installed on the same machine? I know if you have VS 2008 on the same box it can break some things in the BizTalk 2006 install.

Thanks,

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Answer 3

For the templates for VS2005 I would recommend to install the latest service packs and then re-install BizTalk Server. I haven't experimented this with repairing BizTalk but it worked for me when I installed the SP and then uninstalled and reinstalled BTS 2006. Good Luck!!

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Answer 4

It does seem like a repair would work for your scenario. There have been issues on these forums where a repair did not work and it took a full re-install but sometimes this also does not work.

There is a known issue in BizTalk 2009 where a Windows update breaks the BizTalk extensions (http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkcrt/archive/2009/08/21/visual-studio-2008-fails-to-create-open-biztalk-projects.aspx). I wonder if maybe this Windows update could be affecting your BizTalk configuration too. You might try using System Restore to restore to before the time you reconfigured BizTalk.

Thanks,

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Answer 5

Problem is with your VS registry settings.
Just change following entry in registry to,

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Projects\{FAE04EC0-301F-11d3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}]
"PossibleProjectExtensions"="csproj;btproj"

On your machine btproj entry is gone from registry.

Shailesh Kawade