Viewing Assemblies with the BizTalk Assembly Viewer

When you are developing applications or deploying assemblies, you need to see which assemblies are deployed and available to you. Microsoft BizTalk Server provides a convenient tool for this purpose - BizTalk Assembly Viewer.

The BizTalk Assembly Viewer is a Windows shell extension for examining deployed BizTalk assemblies and assembly types. BizTalk Assembly Viewer enables you to:

• View a list of all BizTalk Server assemblies installed in the global assembly cache (GAC) on your local computer.

• View the types within a BizTalk Server assembly.

• View attributes of a BizTalk Server assembly, such as name, version, culture, code base, and public key token.

• View referenced assemblies for a BizTalk Server assembly.

• Add assemblies in the GAC.

• Remove assemblies from the GAC.

• View the XML code for various types including schemas, maps, orchestrations, and pipelines.

• Search for particular types across all BizTalk Server assemblies deployed on a given server.

• Search type dependencies across BizTalk Server assemblies.

In This Section

• How to Register and Remove the BizTalk Assembly Viewer

• How to View Assemblies and Types on the Local Server