Got tired of running Deployment Wizard?

I found it is very annoying to run the BizTalk deployment wizard to deploy or undeploy the assemblies during development phase. Especially when you have multiple assemblies to deal with. You can actually write a simple batch file to automate the deploy/undeploy process. BizTalk provides a BTSDeploy.exe in the installation directory that can take various arguments to perform these tasks easily. The following code (undeploy.bat) is a very rough sample for the undeployment. The deployment step is just the opposite. In case you don't know how to find out the public key token of your assembly, you could use these commands: sn -T assembly.dll and sn -t keyfile.snk.

@echo off

SETLOCAL



::

:: Set the deploy environmental variables for App

::

SET server=dbserver

SET db=BizTalkMgmtDb

SET btsdir="C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004"

SET outdir=..\App\bin\Development

SET log=.\undeployapp.log



::

:: The following section could be repeated if mutiple assemblies

:: to be undeployed...

::

SET name=App

SET version=2.0.0.0

SET pkt=29068414d03ece02

SET culture=neutral



echo Undeploy %name% %version% from GAC and %db% on %server% ...

::

:: Perform undeployment; use BTSDeploy.exe

::

%btsdir%\BTSDeploy 

     REMOVE SERVER=%server% DATABASE=%db% 

     NAME=%name% VERSION=%version% CULTURE=%culture% 

     PUBLICKEYTOKEN=%pkt% UNINSTALL=True LOG=%log%



pause