Hello all,

I'm trying to get my head around BTS 2004 but am being plagued by bugs
running it on my XP development machine.

This is the latest one. When I try to configure a receive port in
VS2003, the form that pops up crashes badly. The (treeview?) control
on the left doesn't render and the font in the 'name' textbox up the
top expands when you start to edit it. A couple of clicks around the
form then causes "NullReferenceExecption: Object reference not set to
an instance of an object".

I've taken the Cumulative Rollup Pack BTS2004-KB837168-ENU. Some more
experienced users of the product I've spoken to have suggested that
the product isn't stable on XP. This is causing a huge hassle here
because it's creating increased demand on the development server (via
terminal services).

Any ideas? This is becoming a BTS deal breaker.


Cheers in advance,


DS

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I've had no trouble running BTS2004 on WinXP SP2 (after configuring the
firewall correctly) and found it extremely stable (and scalable). I'm
currently using it to develop and test over thirty different integrations
(content based routing and orchestrations) with no problems.

I started with a clean (reformatted) workstation and followed the latest
installation instructions as closely as possible. Most installation problems
I've found in the past stem from missing prerequisites. The latest
installation guide can be found at the link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&DisplayLang=en

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"Damien Sawyer" <damiensawyer@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:d87f49b0.0409222039.4fde6c17@posting.google.com...
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to get my head around BTS 2004 but am being plagued by bugs
> running it on my XP development machine.
>
> This is the latest one. When I try to configure a receive port in
> VS2003, the form that pops up crashes badly. The (treeview?) control
> on the left doesn't render and the font in the 'name' textbox up the
> top expands when you start to edit it. A couple of clicks around the
> form then causes "NullReferenceExecption: Object reference not set to
> an instance of an object".
>
> I've taken the Cumulative Rollup Pack BTS2004-KB837168-ENU. Some more
> experienced users of the product I've spoken to have suggested that
> the product isn't stable on XP. This is causing a huge hassle here
> because it's creating increased demand on the development server (via
> terminal services).
>
> Any ideas? This is becoming a BTS deal breaker.
>
>
> Cheers in advance,
>
>
> DS

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We have never seen anything like that in Microsoft. We always run tests on a
ll QFEs, SPs and this problems would be definitely caught.
Do you have all prerequisites? Is there anything specific in your cofigurati
on (e.g. may be you deployed huge solution with thousends of artifacts)? Did
 you try repairing
BizTalk installation? You can try installing this fix http://support.microsoft.com
...kb;en-us;870619

Thanks,
Tatyana

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>Hello all,
>
>I'm trying to get my head around BTS 2004 but am being plagued by bugs
>running it on my XP development machine.
>
>This is the latest one. When I try to configure a receive port in
>VS2003, the form that pops up crashes badly. The (treeview?) control
>on the left doesn't render and the font in the 'name' textbox up the
>top expands when you start to edit it. A couple of clicks around the
>form then causes "NullReferenceExecption: Object reference not set to
>an instance of an object".
>
>I've taken the Cumulative Rollup Pack BTS2004-KB837168-ENU. Some more
>experienced users of the product I've spoken to have suggested that
>the product isn't stable on XP. This is causing a huge hassle here
>because it's creating increased demand on the development server (via
>terminal services).
>
>Any ideas? This is becoming a BTS deal breaker.
>
>
>Cheers in advance,
>
>
>DS
>


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