The BizTalk Explorer Object Model is a managed object model that enables programmatic configuration of BizTalk artifacts in the Trading Partner Management database. It enables all the forms of programmatic access that any .NET programming language can provide. This includes programming from any other common language runtime (CLR)-compliant programming language (for example, C#, Visual Basic® .NET, Managed C++, and so on).

The BizTalk Explorer tool available in Microsoft® Visual Studio 2005 makes it easy to manage small numbers of ports, orchestrations, parties, and so on. But when it comes time to add thousands of parties, or delete hundreds of ports, you need a way to write code to perform these tasks for you. This is what the BizTalk Explorer Object Model provides.

All of the APIs in the BizTalk Explorer Object Model are in the Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM namespace, and can be referenced by adding the Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM.dll to your project. The samples in the Common Programmatic Tasks Using the BizTalk Explorer Object Model section provide four complete samples for the most common tasks, and links to the samples that appear in the Explorer Object Model reference pages.

Note
BizTalk Explorer objects do not support multithreading.

Warning
The BizTalk Explorer Object Model (Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM.dll) is only supported if used from 32 bit processes. If you are building a solution for a 64 bit system you should not use this library.