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2006/01/15

BizTalk Server 2006 - export Orchestration as image

The UK SDC BizTalk 2004 Documenter tool, which can be found over here, does an excellent job of generating documentation for BizTalk projects.

However, I often need to take snapshots of my BizTalk Orchestration and I'm currently using BizTalk Server 2006, which the tool doesn't support (yet?). I've written my own 'tool' for this, by stealing, euhm, borrowing, some code from them and throwing some of my own in as well.

It's downloadable here for anyone to use. Sourcecode is included as always.

Have fun using it and let me know if you run into trouble ;-)

posted by Martijn Hoogendoorn at 10:10 PM

14 Comments:

  • Woah , I was trying hard to get one orchestration printed , Had to resort to screen printing finally until i found this one

    By Blogger Unknown, at 6:54 PM  

  • Glad the tool served you, Abhilash :-)

    By Blogger Martijn Hoogendoorn, at 7:44 PM  

  • Very good, I"m using this in all my documentation.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:24 PM  

  • Excellent tool - does exactly what it says on the tin! Thanks.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:27 PM  

  • Thanks for putting this together. Worked a charm first time round and helps out a lot!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:36 AM  

  • Add the following code to the
    btnSave_Click method (right after the GetOrchestrationImage() call):

    saveFileDialog1.FileName = this.cboOrchestrations.SelectedItem as string + ".png";

    This will preset the file name to the orchestration name.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:12 PM  

  • There are two more tools for BTS 2006 :
    1. BizTalk Documentor from Eric
    http://blogs.msdn.com/ebattalio/archive/2006/03/26/561422.aspx

    2. UK SDC BizTalk 2006 Documenter
    http://www.gotdotnet.com//codegallery/releases/checkForDownload.aspx?id=0690616f-838c-4583-a4c5-cecc5ac04dac&releaseid=67c9ba64-277a-49e1-897e-2297afad8915

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:33 AM  

  • Seems to be a great tool. I want to check it out. Could you please correct the download URL ?
    Thanks

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:18 AM  

  • Could the link please be updated, i would like to download

    By Blogger ~Drifter~, at 10:24 AM  

  • Hey Martijn, the link isn't working anymore. Could you please fix it? Thanks!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:55 AM  

  • hey folks,
    I found a working link at archive.org:
    http://web.archive.org/web/20070426102409/http://www.tachyons.demon.nl/BizTalkPictureExporter.zip

    best regards
    Mathias

    By Anonymous msx, at 1:07 PM  

  • Your link didn't work for me...
    Could you update it, please?

    By Blogger Unknown, at 6:36 PM  

  • Hello! I just would like to give a huge thumbs up for the great info you have here on this post. I will be coming back to your blog for more soon.

    By Anonymous Gadgets UK, at 9:48 AM  

  • Thanks you. Very good post.Unless they can offer a really compelling reason for users to come back, it will be the next Bebo, MySpace

    By Anonymous Cannon 10755GF, at 11:23 PM  

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