Custom Coding Best Practices

The following best practices may help you develop more maintainable, reliable, and extensible code for your BizTalk application:

· Provide purposeful, relevant comments. Use whatever commenting features your language offers to write purposeful comments that are relevant to the code. Always concisely document algorithms, general method flow, and all conditional and loop statements.

· Create and maintain key design and other development artifacts. Create documentation relevant to the solution and keep it current by updating it as the requirements, code, environment, or other application facts change. You should document key designs more fully in your design document than in code comments.

· Use Trace or Debug to follow program flow. Using Trace switches, you can control trace behavior through the configuration file. Both Trace and Debug allow you to send output to interested listeners that you or another tool implements.

· Avoid using Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM in 64-bit processes. The Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM DLL is only supported in 32-bit processes.

Source: Microsoft