DeployOrchestrationToGac missing from .targets

[NealWalters]

This is one of those case where everything was working great, then one day it suddenly broke.

When I deploy to another machine using the generated BTDF MSI, the first server runs fine, but the second server gets an error on DeployOrchestrationToGac missing in the .targets file. I opened it, and sure enough it is missing but the others are there. DeploySchemasToGac, DeployPipelinesToGac, and DeployTransformsToGac all ran okay.

My .btdfproj file has these settings: ` True

True

<IncludeOrchestrations>True</IncludeOrchestrations>
<IncludeTransforms>True</IncludeTransforms>
<IncludeComponents>False</IncludeComponents>
<UsingMasterBindings>True</UsingMasterBindings>
<RequireXmlPreprocessDirectives>False</RequireXmlPreprocessDirectives>
<ApplyXmlEscape>True</ApplyXmlEscape>
<ModifyNTFSPermissionsOnVDirPaths>False</ModifyNTFSPermissionsOnVDirPaths>
<EnableAllReceiveLocationsOnDeploy>True</EnableAllReceiveLocationsOnDeploy>
<SkipHostInstancesRestart>False</SkipHostInstancesRestart>
<AutoTerminateInstances>False</AutoTerminateInstances>
<!-- <DefaultInstallDir></DefaultInstallDir> -->
<IncludeVirtualDirectories>False</IncludeVirtualDirectories>
<IncludeInstallUtilForComponents>True</IncludeInstallUtilForComponents>
<IncludeSettingsSpreadsheetInMsi>True</IncludeSettingsSpreadsheetInMsi>
<SkipIISReset>True</SkipIISReset>
<StartApplicationOnDeploy>True</StartApplicationOnDeploy>
<StartReferencedApplicationsOnDeploy>True</StartReferencedApplicationsOnDeploy>
<UndeployIISArtifacts>False</UndeployIISArtifacts>
<IncludeSSO>True</IncludeSSO>`

So how does the .targets file get built for the target system. Is there a copy of it on my development machine that maybe got messed up? Or some flag I might have messed up in the .btdfproj file?

Thanks, Neal Walters

[tfabraham]

Hi Neal, BizTalkDeploymentFramework.targets is entirely static. It's simply packaged into the MSI on the machine that builds the MSI. When you're using an MSI to deploy on a server, the .targets file that's used is in the app installation folder (typically) under Program Files. On a machine that has the BTDF MSI installed, the .targets file is under Program Files(x86)\MSBuild\DeploymentFrameworkForBizTalk (or similar).

Tom

[NealWalters]

Thanks Tom. Just solved - kind of.
"c:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\DeploymentFrameworkForBizTalk\5.0\BizTalkDeploymentFramework.targets" (on my developer VM).

The file above was updated on 08/01/2018. And it's like someone went into it and just remove the target called DeployOrchestrationToGac. I can't imagine why I would have done that, unless I was in some hypno-trance.

I just restored the file from a buddy's machine, and about to test on next deploy; very confident that's what the problem was.

Neal

[tfabraham]

Sounds good, glad you found it!