Exciting news for the BizTalk Community… especially the 200 people who attended the BizTalk Summit 2014 London, who already know the potential of the BizTalk NoS Addin!
Nino Crudele just publicly announced on his personal blog that the BizTalk NoS Add-in Beta version has been officially released through the Visual Studio Gallery, and the BizTalk NoS Addin is now available for you to download and install on the BizTalk360 website at BizTalk NoS Addin!!!!!
📝 One-Minute Brief
This post announces the public beta release of the BTSG NoS Add-in, a Visual Studio extension created to improve BizTalk Server development and administration workflows. The add-in introduces productivity features such as artifact search, GAC registration, dependency analysis, artifact comparison (JackHammering), artifact extraction from deployed environments, and pipeline testing directly inside Visual Studio. The goal is to reduce repetitive tasks and development time when working with BizTalk solutions.
What is the purpose of the BTSG NoS Addin?
The purpose of BTSG NoS Addin is to help all BizTalk developers, and why not all BizTalk administrators too, in a lot of different situations, by improving the developer experience and reducing the development time in new or existing BizTalk projects.
It will provide several functionalities like quick search inside artifact, fast register/unregister in GAC, find critical, internal or external dependencies… and many more functionalities like JackHammering, which will compare your VS artifact with the artifact deployed in BizTalk environment, you can also extract the artifact (Orchestration, map, schema and so on) from BizTalk environment and put it in the VS solution or even test your pipeline in VS simply… several features that are usefully in our day by day work and a time saver in a lot of situations.
How can I install BTSG NoS Addin?
You can install BTSG NoS Addin directly from the Visual Studio Extensions and Updates option. For that, you must:
- Open Visual Studio as Administrator, go to the Tools menu, and select the Extensions and Updates option.
- In the Extensions and Updates, in the right panel, select the Online tab and search for BizTalk or for “BizTalk NoS Addin.
- And Download the BizTalk Nos Addin”.
The rest of the installation process is described in one of my previous posts: How to install BTSG NoS Addin for Visual Studio 2012
Special Note
It has been a challenge, an extreme playfulness, and a privilege to work with my dear friend Nino Crudele! I feel extremely honored that Nino has chosen me to help in this final phase of his work, and for that, THANKS, Nino!
Now is the time to take a small vacation from BizTalk NoS Addin and finish my ongoing work: BizTalk Mapper Pattern eBook… which, of course, Nino will be one of the reviewers!
5 Stars, keep the good work.
Thanks for sharing
Is it available for VS 2008 as we are using BTS 2009 ?
Hi Akshay,
Some of the features of the addin may work in VS2008 but most of them will not work. So the addin for now is only supported for VS2010 and 2012.