Creating your own BizTalk 2006 Project Item Templates
From time to time I have the need to create file types within my BizTalk projects that you would think are pretty obvious, like an plain old vanilla XML file for example. Pretty obvious requirement I would have thought? The number of standard out of the box templates for BTS is not that complete so I decided to address that issue and create a few for myself : here’s how.
Locate the BizTalkProjectItems folder on your development machine, which should be often than not located under your program file folder here:
\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\Developer Tools\BizTalkProjectItems
Create your template file (in my case a plain old XML and Text File (the text file for creating flat file inputs).
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″ ?> <Root></Root>
And the Flat File Template is simply a matter of creating a blank .txt file as a template. Copy the files (in my case BTSXmlFile.xml and BTSFlatFile.txt) to the directory named earlier in this post.
That’s it your done! Now you have two new templates for BizTalk projects in VS.Net.
As you can see the BTSXmlFile and BTSFlatFile are now available in my add new item dialog window.
