I’ve been a big fan of this amazing Visual Studio Addin for BizTalk Server since the first days Nino Crudele decided to create it. I still remember the long hours we spent at night discussing the features and testing this addin over Skype. And I have continued to be a fan since BizTalk360 took over this resource.
📝 One-Minute Brief
A practical whitepaper introducing BizTalk NoS Ultimate, a powerful Visual Studio add‑in designed to boost BizTalk developer productivity. It explains how the tool simplifies complex BizTalk development tasks, helps uncover dependencies, accelerates troubleshooting, enables quick artifact lookup, and even allows pipeline testing inside Visual Studio. The guide walks through each feature step by step, helping developers and administrators save time and improve efficiency in their daily BizTalk work.
The purpose of BizTalk NoS Ultimate is to help all BizTalk developers, and why not, all BizTalk Administrators, in a lot of different situations, by improving the developer experience and reducing the development time in new or existing BizTalk projects, providing better documentation, and helping to troubleshoot some scenarios/issues you may encounter. But it is primarily a Visual Studio Add-in that enables BizTalk Server developers to work more efficiently.
BizTalk development is not easy and sometimes requires a lot of patience; anyone who has worked with BizTalk long enough will acknowledge this. For instance:
- It takes immense effort to identify the internal & external dependencies among different artifacts (schemas, maps, orchestrations, and so on).
- Testing pipelines within Visual Studio is not possible.
Some tasks consume a large amount of time during development and may eventually delay the project. Unfortunately, no other tool on the market makes the BizTalk developer’s life easier. That is why I love this tool: BizTalk NoS Ultimate.
BizTalk NoS: Your BizTalk Dev Buddy
And now, I also decided to create a whitepaper in a way to be a step-by-step guide to help you get started with the tool and explain all the features available, like:
- Quick search inside artifacts.
- Fast DLL registration/unregistration in the GAC.
- Find critical, internal, or external dependencies.
- JackHammering, which will compare your VS artifact with the artifact deployed in the BizTalk environment.
- With this feature, you can also extract the artifact (Orchestration, map, Schema, and so on) from the BizTalk environment and put it in the VS solution
- Test your pipeline in VS simply
And many more functionalities that will be useful in our day-to-day work and time-savers in many situations.
BizTalk NoS Ultimate is available for the following BizTalk Server versions:
- BizTalk Server 2020 – Visual Studio 2019
- BizTalk Server 2016 – Visual Studio 2015
- BizTalk Server 2013 R2 – Visual Studio 2013
- BizTalk Server 2013 R2 – Visual Studio 2013
Where can I download it?
You can download the whitepaper here:
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