Visual Studio error: Unable to find transmitPipeline.vstemplate. Please repair the product to fix this issue

My blog backlog is full of precious things, and I stop counting the number of pages in my OneNote that I plan to publish. Today I randomly selected this: Unable to find transmitPipeline.vstemplate error that I got on December 4, 2017, in a client when I tried to do something – unfortunately, I don’t remember what I was trying to do – in Visual Studio. The full error message was:

Unable to find “C:\program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\BizTalk\Pipeline Files\TransmitPipeline.zip\transmitPipeline.vstemplate”.

Please repair the product to fix this issue.

Cause

Well, I don’t know the exact reasons why this happened or why these files were missing from the development machine.

However, that is clear from the error message description. The Visual Studio templates, in this case, the Transmit Pipeline template, were missing from the expected directory.

Solution

The easy solution to this problem is to use the BizTalk Server ISO file to repair the installation.

This will “install/copy” all the files, including all BizTalk Server Visual Studio templates to the development machine.

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Author: Sandro Pereira

Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and works as a consultant at DevScope. In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premises and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size, and criticality, using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO etc. He is a regular blogger, international speaker, and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books all focused on Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices”. He has been awarded MVP since 2011 for his contributions to the integration community. View all posts by Sandro Pereira