I was quite shocked to find out the night before, that I had one the BizTalk Server Competition (http://msdn.microsoft.com/bpi). I was sitting working on v1.1 actually, and the email came through. I almost fell off my couch.

I originally started the tool out of pure need, I needed to have something like this, for a production and test environment, where you do not have visual studio installed. It also helped me in developing on BizTalk Server.

Now we have gone live with a fairly major installation of BizTalk 2004, this has been invaluable.

The new features coming are a few adjustments to the UI, and including some of the api I missed out. As well as some more funky things around HAT replacements if I get time.

I would like to thank the people responsible for the competition, it was great to win, and even better to get my tool out there.

Here is the link for the workspace for the tool:

BizTalk 2004 Management Tool

I better start blogging more, when I have the time...