WCF LOB Adapter SDK and BizTalk Adapter Pack

We're exicted to announce the availability of the new BizTalk Adapter Pack Poster. This poster covers interoperability with Line-of-Business Applications using the BizTalk Adapter Pack and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) LOB Adapter SDK...

We’ve had a few users complaining about the throughput of the adapters (the Adapter Pack ones, and/or custom ones) coming to a standstill during normal operation within BizTalk. In this post, I’ll explain why that happens, and some workarounds. Let’s...

One of the new features which we’re supporting in the BizTalk Adapter Pack V2 is the ability to use the SAP ADO.NET Provider from SSRS. In this post, I’ll briefly outline the steps you need to perform in order to get this to work. Firstly, install...

One of the features we’ve enabled in the CTP3 of the BizTalk Adapter Pack V2 (which requires CTP3 of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP2), is the ability to expose the Adapters (which are in reality, WCF Bindings) as native BizTalk Adapters. Prior to this, if...

Firstly, if you haven’t already seen it, have a look at the post describing the EnableSafeTyping binding property - http://blogs.msdn.com/adapters/archive/2007/11/24/the-enablesafetyping-binding-property.aspx . Since the Adapter Pack V1 released, we...

If you’re developing your own adapters against the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, then it might be worth your while to try out the June CTP of the SP2 of the WCF LOB ASDK. There are a few minor changes, but we might make more based on your feedback. I’m mentioning...

The BizTalk Adapter Pack team is very happy to announce the release of the second CTP of the Adapter Pack V2. This CTP adds more features to the new WCF Oracle E-Business Suite and SQL adapters that we shipped in the first CTP. We got some good feedback...

In this post, I’m going to demonstrate how the Polling feature in the WCF SQL Adapter can be used to read messages from SQL Service Broker (SSB) queues and publish them in the BizTalk MessageBox. And to make it really simple, we’re going to do it without...

Assume you’re using the WCF SQL Adapter (part of the BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0). You decide to create 2 Receive Locations (RL), in order to poll the database. Each RL polls a different table (e.g., the “PollingStatement” binding property in the first RL...

The BizTalk Adapter Pack team is very happy to announce the release of the first CTP of the Adapter Pack V2. This CTP contains new WCF/ASDK-based Oracle E-Business Suite and SQL adapters for use with BizTalk Server R2. MOSS and any .Net application. This...

For the next release of adapter pack, we are adding 2 new adapters -- Oracle EBS and SQL . In addition, we are also enhancing support for the existing OracleDB adapter. We are planning to add support for the following: - UDTs - Table Types - Boolean types...

We are announcing the availability of the Eval version of the BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0! This can downloaded from here . You can use the eval version for development purposes for 120-day from the day of installation. Party on! The BizTalk Adapter...

We are close to releasing the initial CTP of the new BizTalk adapter pack which contains the all new SQL and Oracle E-Business suite adapters. We are looking for your help in securing customers to provide validation of these adapters prior to release...

I was recently contacted by a customer using the SAP Adapter. They were using the Adapter directly via a WCF proxy (i.e., without using BizTalk) from within an ASP.NET application. Their complaint was that the throughput was very low. On investigating...

We are currently working on an Oracle EBS (aka Oracle Apps) Adapter for the next release of Adapter Pack, along with a SQL Server Adapter . The Oracle EBS adapter will be built using WCF LOB Adapter SDK . At a high-level, we are planning to have the following...

As you all know, the BizTalk® Adapter Pack was released earlier this year and includes WCF based adapters for SAP, Oracle DB and Siebel. We have recently posted a detailed presentation about the Adapter Pack on Channel 9. You can view it at http://channel9...

As was already announced on this forum, the BizTalk Adapter Pack (BAP) was announced more than a month ago during the Office Developer Conference and became available starting March 1st. The BAP provides a robust and comprehensive out-of-the-box connectivity...

As mentioned in this post, we're developing a new SQL Adapter, which will be available in the next release of the BizTalk Adapter Pack. The list of features which we're supporting is mentioned in that blog post. As for the features/items/etc which we...

Quite a few customers developing custom adapters built on the WCF LOB Adapter SDK have come back to us asking for details on how to have transactional behavior while receiving messages from the LOB and submitting them to BizTalk (receive location) - for...

BizTalk® Adapter Pack Launches at Office Developers Conference On Monday February 11th, we announced availability of the BizTalk® Adapter Pack at the Office Developer Conference. The BizTalk® Adapter Pack provides a single solution to easily and...

The current release of the Adapter Pack contains the SAP, Siebel and Oracle adapters (written using the WCF LOB Adapter SDK). For the next release of the Adapter Pack, one of the adapters which we're adding is a SQL Adapter. Some of the features which...

When using the SAP Adapter, while receiving an IDoc, you might see the error message "Loading property information list by namespace failed or property not found in the list" in the event log. Cause: The SAP adapter is promoting the IDoc control record...

The RTM version of Siebel Adapter no longer supports the MVG operations – Associate, Dissociate and Query_*. The reason for dropping support for these operations is a memory leak in Siebel library that the adapter uses to communicate with Siebel. We are...

You must have read in the documentation that the SAP adapter does not support/honour the timeout values specified on the binding (sendTimeout, openTimeout, etc). However, at times you might yet receive timeout related exceptions from the adapter. Why...

The WCF LOB Adapter SDK (ASDK) contains a behavior named "InboundActionEndpointBehavior" which you can add to your ServiceHost in inbound scenarios. What this behavior does is, at runtime, analyzes the contract deployed, determines the Actions on the...