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Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.dll is an unsupported assembly provided by Microsoft, it is used to perform all actions related with the deployment of EAI solutions in BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 2.  This assembly provides classes to import, export, add and remove resources, register and unregister assemblies in the gac, and so on....

Additionally, with Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.dll you can extract the artifacts contained inside a biztalk assembly (.dll) using its classes and interfaces.  For example, if you want to know if a file is a biztalk assembly you can use this code:

if (BizTalkLatamAssembly.BtsAssemblyManager.IsBizTalkAssemblyByPath(pathBtsAssembly))
{
// crate an instance of BizTalkAssembly
Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.BizTalkAssembly biztalkAssembly = 
new Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.BizTalkAssembly();
biztalkAssembly.Load(pathBtsAssembly);
// create an instance of BtsAssemblyManager
Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.Assembly.BtsAssemblyManager btsAssemblyManager = 
new Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.Assembly.BtsAssemblyManager(pathBtsAssembly, biztalkAssembly);
// load the BtsAssembly from BtsAssemblyManager
Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.Assembly.btsAssembly = btsAssemblyManager.BtsAssembly;
}

Also, you can get the pipelines from a biztalk assembly using BtsAssembly class and IBizTalkOrchestration interface, see below:

IEnumerator listOfPipelines = btsAssembly.AssemblyMetaData.Pipelines;
listOfPipelines.Reset();
while (listOfPipelines.MoveNext())
{
Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.MetaDataOM.IBizTalkPipeline pipeline = listOfPipelines.Current 
as Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.MetaDataOM.IBizTalkPipeline;
System.Console.WriteLine("Pipeline name: " + pipeline.Name);
}

I wrote an easy sample called "BTS Easy Reflector" that uses the classes of Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.dll to show information about a biztalk assembly.  You can download it from "BTS Easy Reflector: Workspace home" and send me your feedback.

This information and project was developed with BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 2, thus, is possible that it doesn't work to final relase .