WCF LOB Adapter SDK and BizTalk Adapter Pack

The EnableSafeTyping Binding Property

In the November CTP of the Adapter Pack V1, a new binding property has been added to the SAPBinding - "EnableSafeTyping" (a boolean) When this property is true, DATS, TIMS and NUMC fields are exposed as Strings, and any value can be passed back and forth Read More...

Posted Saturday, November 24, 2007 5:38 AM by mdoctor | 1 Comments

Debugging SAP RFCs when using the SAP Adapter / SAP ADO.NET Provider

The RFC SDK supports the ABAP_DEBUG option, which allows you to break into the RFC ABAP code when invoking an RFC from your application. The SAP Adapter and the SAP ADO.NET Provider also expose this setting. The main advantage of this - consider this Read More...

Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 5:55 PM by mdoctor | 0 Comments

SAP - can all fields in a table store mixed-case characters?

While investigating a possible bug, I ran the following two queries using the SAP ADO Provider: SELECT NAME1, LAND1, KUNNR from KNA1 where (NAME1 LIKE 'Dan%' AND LAND1 Like 'D%') and SELECT NAME1, LAND1, KUNNR from KNA1 where (NAME1 LIKE 'Dan%' AND LAND1 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:08 AM by mdoctor | 0 Comments