Support for BizTalk 2020

[lewispayne]

When will this be available or is it already possible to use with VS2019? Looking to migrate to BizTalk 2020.

[tfabraham]

Updating the Framework itself is usually not too bad. I expect the Visual Studio extension to require extensive work (time) to modify -- and possibly rebuild -- for Visual Studio 2019. I won't even make an attempt at providing a timeline since this is a many-late-nights effort, but know that it's on my radar and I'll do my best. Thanks.

[maarten-Biz]

Hi,
How far away is the upgrade of BTDF, are we talking about a couple of weeks, months or years?
Thank you! :)

[well0549]

Any Progress ? Can we help ?

[tfabraham]

Rest assured that it's on my mind nearly every day, but since this is a late-night effort I can't be specific with a date. I think it's fairly safe to say within the next month or two for the framework itself. The Visual Studio add-in (released separately) may be longer since it's potentially a near-rewrite for VS 2019.

My first order of business is reawakening two very outdated development VM's (BizTalk 2013 R2 and 2016) and standing up a new one for 2020.

I can share one change coming in the next release: based on the download counts of the Visual Studio add-in on VS Marketplace, I'll be dropping support for BizTalk 2010 and 2013 (R1).

Thanks for your patience.

[swalde]

I'm trying to replicate BizTalkBill's VSTS+BTDF pressentation from the days of BTS 2013 R2.
I'm working on a Azure DevOps pipeline+release inspired by Bill, for a BizTalk 2016/2020 Reference project of ours, using BTDF 2016 and today's version of Azure DevOps.
I see now that the 2020 version will have to wait.

I can be a testpilote when converting my project to 2020, whenever your have a BTDF 2020 release.

I do have one Buildserver of each BTS version after a late last night... ;-)

[tfabraham]

Thanks. I had time this week to update my BizTalk 2013 and 2016 VM's and get most of the way through a new BizTalk 2020 VM, so one step closer.

[swalde]

Hello, have you had any time to spend on the 2020 edition lately? Any progress?

[tfabraham]

I have not, but I'm actively looking for an opportunity to jump into it.

[swalde]

Great, I'm working on my BTS 2016 BTDF-DevOps spare time demo project and the Classic version works, also looking att translating from classic to YAML style BTDF pipelines. That will make the demo more future-proof since more concepts are available for YAML. Environment f ex is a YAML-only concept

[eloekset]

@swalde please share a link to your work if you publish the yaml files to GitHub. The move to Azure Pipelines seems easier for BT2020, so we should have something more or less official for BTDF adopters and BT2020.

[eloekset]

BTW, this is a repo of BTDF for Octopus Deploy. I ported it to BT2016, but I don't use it myself. Just verified that it published applications successfully after being built by Azure Pipelines: https://github.com/elangovana/publish-btdfBiztalkApplication

[swalde]

Sorry mine is a private Company Git-repo on Azure DevOps