Will Visual Studio 2013 support BizTalk 2013 projects?

Question

In my limited experience with BizTalk, it seems that the BizTalk projects and the version of Visual Studio are somewhat blocked from each other. For example, you cannot open a BizTalk 2010 project in Visual Studio 2012, for this you need to install BizTalk 2013 components on your development machine.

So, to my question, will Visual Studio 2013 support BizTalk 2013 projects (or maybe BizTalk 2010 projects, for that matter), or will we stick with VS 2012 for BT projects?

Edit: I previously added the answer as follows:

Sheesh, I don’t know what Google search terms I used before, but for some reason I could not find information about BizTalk. I tried again and came up with this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh266747.aspx

What are the conditions:

BizTalk server projects are not compatible with Visual Studio 2013. The first time you start a BizTalk 2010 project, it is automatically upgraded to BizTalk 2013 / Visual Studio 2013.

So, this means that VS 2013 should work with BizTalk 2013 projects. Nice. I can’t say that I have already tried, but this is good news.

Since then I have installed BizTalk 2013 and Visual Studio 2013

Now I get the error message:

This project is not compatible with the current version of Visual Studio.

Since then, I fixed the BizTalk2013 installation to make sure that I have developer tools, and that did not affect. Can anyone confirm from experience that this should work for me?

Answer 1

To date (November 5, 2013) this is not happening. There seems to be a 6-month lag between releases, so we can expect it to be supported in a few months. At this point, you will have to stick to 2010 or 2012.

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalknotes/archive/2013/10/29/biztalk-2013-compatibility-with-latest-platforms-of-microsoft.aspx

Answer 2

New BizTalk 2013 R2 will support VS 2013: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj248703(v=bts.80).aspx

• BizTalk 2013 R2 projects require Visual Studio 2013
• BizTalk 2013 projects require Visual Studio 2012
• BizTalk 2010 projects require Visual Studio 2010

Answer 3

BizTalk 2013/2013 R2 Project Templates with Visual Studio 2015

Hello, yes, to install BizTalk 2013, you need the "Developer Tools and SDK" function for the standard Visual Studio 2012 and install BizTalk 2013 R2 Visual Studio 2013, otherwise the function is disabled.

Frustrated by this fact (at work we are now upgraded to VS2015), now I have found a way to install templates in VS 2015 and without installing VS2012 / 2013 on the system.

Tool required: Orca to modify msi.

Files for modification are located in subdir MSI from the BTServer directory of the extracted ISO (back up these files!)

Settings for change: Microsoft BizTalk Server.msi and
Microsoft BizTalk Server64.msi

Modifications:
AppSearch table: Drop Row for property "CSHARP_INSTALLED"
Properties-Table: Add row, property Name = 'CSHARP_INSTALLED', Value = 'True'
Properties-Table: Set the value of the TargetVsVersion property to '14 .0 '

Do this for both MSIs, save.

Now preliminary request VS 2012/2013 from files
Setup.xml and
The Setup_64.xml file must be deleted.

Just delete the entry

<RequiredComponent Name="VS2012"/> or
<RequiredComponent Name="VS2013"/>

from node

<Feature Name="Development">

MADE!

Hope this helps someone :-) Good luck!
best regards, Marco

--- EDIT if someone has a valid RegKey to check if VS215 is installed, the check in Setup.xml can be overwritten. That would be good and effective.

One of the valid changes for installing Visual Studio 2015 could be:

<PlatformComponent _locAttrData="DisplayName" _locID="25" Name="VS2015" DisplayName="Microsoft Visual Studio 2015"> <Detection Type="RegDWORD"> <DetectKey Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\Setup\Visual Studio 2015 Prerequisites" Value="InstallSuccess" ValueData="1"/> </Detection> </PlatformComponent>

Answer 4

I ran into the same issue, but installing Visual Studio 2012 did not resolve the issue for me. I was still getting this error message. I just realized that during the installation of BizTalk, I did not check the box for the developer tools and the SDK. As soon as I changed the installation and checked this box, the project will open for me now.

Answer 5

I had a problem with this today. I tried using VS2013 Ultimate to open the BizTalk 2013r2 solution, which should work fine. I received a terrible message Unsupported . It turned out that the problem was caused by the fact that the "Developer Tools and SDK" were not marked during the installation of BizTalk.

To solve the problem, I installed BizTalk Iso and ran setup.exe. I selected "Modify Existing Installation" and then checked the "Developer Tools and SDK" checkbox