The BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) supports deployments for BizTalk applications that go far beyond BizTalk's out of the box deployment functionality described in the Exploring BizTalk out of the box deployment recipe. It has a number of tools that can improve developers' and administrators' productivity, such as binding file management. The framework version 5.0 supports BizTalk Server 2010 and has a couple of advantages for the developers, as well as for the administrators:
Ability to eliminate all manual steps in BizTalk deployments
Maintains all environment-specific configurations and runtime settings in an Excel spreadsheet
Single binding file can be applied for all deployment (Development, Test, Acceptance and Production) environments
Re-use of scripts to deploy applications to different servers
Low cost as the framework is free of charge
Though this framework has the advantages mentioned above, it comes with a price, creating a non-compatible...