Beta to RC Migration for Commerce Server Biztalk Adapters
There really is no migration from beta to RC for our adapters. It's as easily as uninstalling beta and installing the RC version of the Commerce Server 2007 Biztalk Adapters. However, there is one addition that I would like to point out.
In Beta, the adapter validated many parameters in an endpoint (receive and send). For instance, we validated that the web service url is valid and functional (we created the web service agents in endpoint creation), we validated that directories exist (catalog/inventory requires temp directories for import) and we validated any filter/search clause during endpoint creation.
This impacted our deployment scenario severely. For instance, in beta, if a customer deployed the Biztalk Application before changing the endpoint configurations to point to the production servers (assuming you are deploying from development to production), the endpoint would fail to import, thus causing the whole application to fail import.
The good news for RC (and RTM) is that we have removed all external validations that the adapter performs and made this configurable via a registry setting. So when you deploy a Biztalk Application as a MSI file or bindings file, we will create the endpoint regardless of your external settings and configurations. Of course, before running the endpoint you would need to change your settings, but the endpoint will still create.
Personally, in development, I prefer to have validation turned on as it catches all my typos or misconfigurations before actually running the endpoint. To enable validation is really easy, just execute the following command (from a command prompt):
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Commerce Server 2007 BizTalk Adapters" /v ConfigValidation /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f
This creates a registry entry named ConfigValidation, of type REG_DWORD, with a value of one (1), under one of the following registry paths:
32-bit computers: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Commerce Server 2007 BizTalk Adapters
64-bit computers: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Commerce Server 2007 BizTalk Adapters
That's it - once you have created the registry key - the adapter will perform full validation on all your endpoint configurations. This is the preferred way to go during development.
Nihit has a really informative post about Beta to RC migration for the server product that I suggest anyone migrating read.
Hope this helps and, as always, let me know if you have any additional questions.
Alan
