Custom Orchestration not showing in the Esb Itinerary Property Window

Ever tried to use a custom 'Orchestration' in your Itinerary for processing your business funtionality only to find out that 'Itinerary Designer' is not showing it in the 'Itinerary Service' properties??


Well, there are couple of things you need to do, before you get to that point!!!


First of all, You need to create a new entry for your 'Orchestration' in the ESB.Config file located at 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0\Esb.config'. Open up the configuration file, look for 'itineraryServices' node. Inside this, you've got to add a new entry for an 'ItineraryService' of type Orchestration.


Here are the list of attributes for the ItineraryService node :
id : It has be a new GUID. Generate a new GUID and assign it.
name : Any name that you want to assign to your Orchestration Service. This is the same name that would be used by the 'Receive Shape' in your Orchestration to subscribe to the messages comming for the Itinerary Service.
type : This is the combination of Orchestration Name and Assembly Name. This information can be found by right clicking on the Orchestration in the BizTalk Admin Console, and click on Properties. It will show a list of properties. Under 'General' tab, you could find the Name and Assembly information. Just copy those two values seperated by a comma.
scope : Since this is an Orchestration service, it's scope should be 'Orchestration'.
state = "None".
A typical entry in the ESB.Config file will look like this :


"itineraryService id="5" name="TwoWayTransformation" type="ESB.MultipleWebServices.Orchestrations.TwoWayRouting, XactConnectArtifacts, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f922625124e336c0" scope="Orchestration" stage="None"/"


Once you have this information in the ESB.Config File, it should show up in the Itinerary Service Property Window for the ServiceName property. If it doesn't show, close the Visual Studio and open it up again... It should be able to show up now...


If it still doesn't, like it did for me, then the problem lies else where...


When you configure SSO using EsbConfigurationTool.exe, are you storing it in a datastore or a file???Change it to look it up from a file.... It will show up!!!! If you have configured it to look in a datastore then any changes made to the configuration file will obviously not show up...


So, Open up the ESBConfigurationTool.exe, click on Configuration node and see what is checked over there.... File Source or SSO Configuration Source???If it is SSO Configuration Source, then click on the UnConfigure Source button in the menu, Select File Source and then click Apply Configuration....


From now on, any changes made to the Configuration File will show up!!!!