Question

I am attempting to develop a generic BizTalk application for configuring dynamic ports. I have an orchestration that pulls back all the configuration settings for each port and I want to loop through these settings and configure the ports. The settings are held in MSSQL and, for instance, two of the properties are PortName and Address. So from within the orchestration I would like to reference the port by the string variable PortName. So is there some way to get a collection of all the ports in an orchestration or reference a port via a string variable i.e. Port['MyPortName'](Microsoft.XLANGs.BaseTypes.Address) = "file://c:\test\out\%MessageId%.xml" Thanks

Answer 1

In the first place you shouldn’t attempt to do configuration changes like this using an Orchestration. Technically it’s feasible to do what you are attempting to do, but as a practice you shouldn’t mix up your business process with administration.

The best way to do such things will be by either writing some normal scripts or PowerShell.

To answer you question, you can get the data you want from BtsOrchestration class in ExplorerOM
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.biztalk.explorerom.btsorchestration_members(v=bts.20)