Feature: Support multiple settings spreadsheet paths

[tfabraham]

Support multiple settings spreadsheet paths

Questions/issues:

What about setting duplication between spreadsheets? PropsFromEnvSettings behavior? Collision on export of settings XML files

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[tfabraham]

[fchabot@11/11/2014] I did something similar in my project, which now relies on BTDF 6. By convention there can be only 2 setting files / spreadsheets: one for the common properties, one for the application-specific properties. (The BTDF-based targets are there even though my project does not define common settings yet). Concretely:

• I have defined another ItemGroup on top of PropsFromEnvSettings, i.e. CommonPropsFromEnvSettings.

• The application-specific properties have precedence over the common ones (this is mainly due to the way xmlpreprocess works).

• The common setting files must be called, by convention, Common.SettingsFileGenerator.xml.

See lines 217 to 333, just after the "Common & Specific Settings Files" banner, in file BizTalk.Factory.Deployment.targets.

HTH, François

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