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BizTalk Send port wont enlist

Leaving some white-space in the binding file of a send port filter will make the port unable to enlist. Opening the send port from the admin console will reveal a disabled filter section.

Incorrect:

<Filter>
        &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?&gt;
        &lt;Filter xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&gt;
        &lt;Group&gt;
        &lt;Statement Property="BTS.ReceivePortName" Operator="0" Value="GetContacts" /&gt;
        &lt;/Group&gt;
        &lt;/Filter&gt;
   </Filter>

Correct:

<Filter>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?&gt;
        &lt;Filter xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&gt;
        &lt;Group&gt;
        &lt;Statement Property="BTS.ReceivePortName" Operator="0" Value="GetContacts" /&gt;
        &lt;/Group&gt;
        &lt;/Filter&gt;
   </Filter>