Is there a way to automate turning a BizTalk Receive Location on or off through code?

Question

Is there a way to automate the turning on or off of a Receive Location in BizTalk? It seems like there should be some kind of API or some such for this kind of thing. I woul

Answer 1

In response to Alhambraeidos comment. Here's is some excerpts of code I used in a Windows app to disable a Receive Location remotely:

    /// 

    /// Gets or sets the biz talk catalog.
    /// 
    /// The biz talk catalog.
    private BtsCatalogExplorer BizTalkCatalog { get; set; }

    /// 

    /// Initializes the biz talk artifacts.
    /// 
    private void InitializeBizTalkCatalogExplorer()
    {
        // Connect to the local BizTalk Management database
        BizTalkCatalog = new BtsCatalogExplorer();
        BizTalkCatalog.ConnectionString = "server=BiztalkDbServer;database=BizTalkMgmtDb;integrated security=true";
    }


    /// 

    /// Gets the location from biz talk.
    /// 
    /// Name of the location.
    /// 
    private ReceiveLocation GetLocationFromBizTalk(string locationName)
    {
        ReceivePortCollection receivePorts = BizTalkCatalog.ReceivePorts;
        foreach (ReceivePort port in receivePorts)
        {
            foreach (ReceiveLocation location in port.ReceiveLocations)
            {
                if (location.Name == locationName)
                {
                    return location;
                }
            }
        }

        throw new ApplicationException("The following receive location could not be found in the BizTalk Database: " + locationName);
    }


    /// 

    /// Turns the off receive location.
    /// 
    /// Name of the vendor.
    public void TurnOffReceiveLocation(string vendorName)
    {
        ReceiveLocation location = Locations[vendorName].ReceiveLocation;
        location.Enable = false;
        BizTalkCatalog.SaveChanges();
    }

You'll notice that there is some I left out, like I was creating a dictionary of receive locations called "Locations", but you should be able to get the idea. The pattern pretty much holds true for any BizTalk object you want to interact with.