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Thursday 25 February 2021

BizTalk Orchestration fails to open in Design View rather opens in the xml editor

Hi there, 

Hope you are doing well.

Recently, I have come across a situation where I have installed an MS office update and somehow it corrupted the BizTalk Orchestration Designer. BizTalk Orchestration Designer was not getting displayed in the list of editors as shown below. 

When I have opened the BizTalk project file in the XML format, it was showing as below. 

<ItemGroup>

<XLang Include="ProcessOrder.odx">

<TypeName>ProcessOrder</TypeName>

<Namespace>MyProjectNamespace</Namespace>

<SubType>Task</SubType>

</XLang>

</ItemGroup>

For most of the people out there the <SubType>Designer</SubType>  section is shown and once removed it worked as expected but in my case, I don't have <SubType>Designer</SubType> in the project file. 


To solve the problem, I have closed all the opened visual studio instances and ran the below command in the Developer Command prompt for Visual studio and I could see the BizTalk Orchestration designer as shown below. Run the Developer Command prompt for Visual Studio as an administrator.


devenv.exe /ResetSettings

Hope it has solved your problem.

Have a great day.

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