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You can have a server with Biztalk Server 2004 installed and Covast EDI Accelerator, but without Microsoft Visual Studio installed. When you want to install a new EDI message in Covast you have to generate the schema with Visual Studio, because this causes a process to run (xml2db.exe). This process installs the document definitions into the repository of Covast.

What if you don’t have Visual Studio installed?
How to install a schema without Visual Studio?
This is what I’m going to explain…

With Visual Studio installed:

Firstly we must open Visual Studio .NET 2003. Select Start> Programs> Microsoft Visual Studio.net 2003>Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Now we can generate the xsd schema: Right click on a project > Add > Add generated Items. Choose Generate Covast EDI Schema in the next dialog.

Visual Studio will now generate the schema and add this schema to his repository.

See chapter ‘Xml2db.exe’ for how to install a schema in the Covast repository without Visual Studio.

Without Visual Studio installed:

Visual Studio runs the next processes:

—— Generate Selected schema started: Document: ASC_X12_850_004_010_DEFAULT_X ——

db2cov -s NLHWS4010X -n CovastDB -d “850   004010DEFAULT          X                                          ” -f 5 -o “C:\Projects\JFH.Interfaces\Schemas\ASC_X12_850_004_010_DEFAULT_X.asc”

db2cov started on 2007-8-15 14:40:56……

db2cov finished on 2007-8-15 14:41:11

cov2xsd “C:\Projects\JFH.Interfaces\Schemas\ASC_X12_850_004_010_DEFAULT_X.asc” “C:\Projects\JFH.Interfaces\Schemas\ASC_X12_850_004_010_DEFAULT_X.xsd” -t “D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Covast\EDI Accelerator 2004\SubsystemLogs\cov2xsd.log”

cov2xsd started on 2007-8-15 14:41:11……

cov2xsd finished on 2007-8-15 14:41:12

xml2db “C:\Projects\JFH.Interfaces\Schemas\ASC_X12_850_004_010_DEFAULT_X.xsd” “850   004010DEFAULT          X                                          ” -s NLHWS4010X -n CovastDB -d “850″ -x “Purchase Order                     ” -t “D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Covast\EDI Accelerator 2004\SubsystemLogs\xml2db.log” -p 0

xml2db started on 2007-8-15 14:41:12……

xml2db finished on 2007-8-15 14:41:15

Generate complete — 0 errors, 0 warnings  

This last process (using the xml2db.exe) is used to add the schema in the repository of Covast
So to install the schema in the Covast repository, just run the processes listed as above to import the schema.