Switch between 'Local Development' and 'Shared Development' environment settings - BTDF/DeploymentFramework GitHub Wiki

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Requirement

Most of the time when developing with BizTalk, you want to isolate your dependencies on external systems and services. So you stub them out to work in a localised way.

However, every so often, you still need to connect to real (dev\test) instances of the source and target endpoints\services. For example, you may need to:

  • (Re)generate a schema.
  • You may be asked to send a message to see if everything still works.
  • You might want some messages sent to BizTalk to get confidence that everything still works.

Solution

The BTDF environments spread sheet out-of-the-box gives you two development environments:

Environment Purpose
Local Development Work in a localised environment - external systems are stubbed.
Shared Development Work with client\service developers - point to their developer endpoint instances.

In order to switch between the two environments, add the following to your .btdfproj file.

 <!-- Un-comment this line to use the shared developer settings -->
 <!-- <DeveloperPreProcessSettings>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\EnvironmentSettings\Exported_DevSettings.xml</DeveloperPreProcessSettings> -->

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