“You are making my point!”

There are over 500 BizTalk hotfixes that have been released. So how do you quickly find the ones that apply to your specific version and service pack releases of BizTalk server? Well, Check out this great post by Michael Shea. I am also going to steal his keywords and list them down here.

http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?mode=r&query={keyword}

kbBizTalk2000SP1fix

kbBizTalk2000sp2fix

kbBizTalk2002preSP1fix

kbBizTalk2000preSP2fix

kbBizTalk2002SP1fix

kbbiztalk2004sp1fix

Kbbiztalk2004sp2fix

kbBizTalk2000SP1afix

Kbbiztalk2004presp3fix

Kbbiztalk2006presp1fix

Kbbiztalk2006r2presp1fix

kbbtsAdapters

kbBTSMessaging

kbBTSHat kbBTSPipeline

kbBTSOrchestration

kbBTSAdmin

kbBTSMapper

kbBTSBAM

If you are running Visual Studio 2008 developing BizTalk 2009 projects, and all of a sudden you find that your Visual Studio fails to create new BizTalk projects, don’t panic. This is a known issue. Apparently one of the recent Visual Studio patches (mostly likely automatically downloaded and applied to your machine) has a bug. It accidentally removes “.btproj” from the project extension setting in a Visual Studio registry key.

You can either fix this key manually (quick but you need to know what you are doing), or simply run the installation of BizTalk SDK in repair mode (less risky but takes a while). You can find the details here in BizTalk Customer Response Team’s blog.