Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Deployment of BizTalk 2006 R2 solution failed with "The database or the database version is incompatible with the installed version of this product"

Scenario: you have created a BizTalk 2006 R2 solution (using Visual Studio 2005) on one machine and just copied it to another one to continue work and deploy. The rebuild goes fine, but when you try to deploy the solution, the error message comes:

"The database or the database version is incompatible with the installed version of this product"

Probably you had different versions (mostly SP of SQL Server) on your source and target machine.

What to do?

1. Close the solution.
2. Open Explorer and delete *.btproj.user files.
3. Reopen the solution, rebuild and deploy it.

Enjoy!

Monday, April 20, 2009

"Sharepoint Designer 2007 - now free!" or how to build a webportal with minimal investment

Good news, folks! Sharepoint Designer is now free - look here!

From now everybody can build webportal with minimal investments:
- Windows Sharepoint Services ("small MOSS") - free;
- Sharpoint Designer - free;
- Additional Kits (for example, accessibility kits - ARF, AKS, BKS) - free!

The only things required: a machine, a license of Windows Server (2003 and better), an internet connection and a little bit of time :-)

Enjoy!