Installing and configuring the Management Portal Sample Solution

We will need to open the Management Portal Sample Solution in Visual Studio 2012.

The Management Portal Sample Solution has the setup projects that were used in Visual Studio 2010. Unfortunately the use of setup projects has been removed in Visual Studio 2012. These projects still exists in the samples provided with the toolkit. We will need to delete them from the solution.

If we try to build the solution, we will get errors

First we will need to install the Enterprise Library 5.0, which is available at www.microsoft.com/en-my/download/details.aspx?id=15104.

We will also need to install Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008 which is downloadable from www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=577.

Note

Mike Diiorio has an excellent article on his blog, mikediiorio.net/2013/04/08/configure-biztalk-esb-toolkit-2-2-management-portal/, that will provide us with step-by-step instructions to correct these errors and get the...