When building applications today, it’s hard to consider building something that doesn’t involve connectivity of some sort. Applications require business data and logic that is distributed across several applications or servers. Unfortunately, not all...

I just published this WCF adapter video examining, in detail, the flow of an incoming WCF message into a BizTalk receive location that is configured to use a WCF receive adapter. See how this message is converted by the WCF adapter into a BizTalk message...

I just published this extensive FAQ with the help of the BizTalk Server product team at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=144765 . These FAQs about the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) adapters consists of the following themes. Pass it on...

Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 provides robust support for solutions that use the Windows® Communication Foundation (WCF) and Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2009. While some of the functionality is clearly visible, some of it may not be evident to a BizTalk...

Microsoft® BizTalk® Server uses the SOAP adapter and orchestrations to receive and send Web service requests. The SOAP adapter enables orchestrations to be published as Web services and consume external Web services. Because configuring and/or using Web...

Written by Aaron Skonnard, this was originally named "Integrating Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with the Windows Communication Foundation". It has been renamed to "Using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Adapters in Biztalk Server". It can...

"Consuming and Hosting WCF Services with Custom Bindings in BizTalk Server is a new WCF whitepaper. You can find the download page from MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203050.aspx , or download it directly from the download center at...

The first of two whitepapers entitled “Using Custom Behaviors with the BizTalk WCF Adapters, Part 1"” is now available for download. You can get the Word version of the whitepaper at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129615 . Alternatively, it's...

A new WCF adapter whitepaper entitled “Modifying Messages with the WCF Adapters” is now available for download. You can get the Word version of the whitepaper at http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/f/b/cfbcd6ad-5454-4c23-85d2-0cc3d7627015/WCFModifyingMessages...

Announcing the Biztalk Adapter Pack Poster We are happy 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...

I have recently posted three WCF Adapter samples off the BizTalk Server Developer Center at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/bb608378.aspx , Two samples were released today. The first one is of a WCF message intemediary where an incoming WCF message...

Hi Is there a specific WCF adapter sample or whitepaper you feel you would like to see written? If so, please email me directly and let's discuss to see if I can get what is needed any WCF adapter content.Please put on the subject line "WCF Adapter...

Believe me, the adapter is telling the truth! It really doesn’t understand the action it got! To understand what’s going on, read on… When you use the ‘Consume Adapter Service’ wizard to generate LOB schemas in a BizTalk project, you also get a binding...

There are two ways the adapters belonging to Adapter Pack can be used by SQL Service Integration Services: 1. Using ADO layer built on top of base adapters. This option is available with SAP and Siebel adapters. 2. Writing custom SSIS task which...

I am looking to document "best practice" experiences in configuring and using the new R2 WCF adapters so others can learn from the mistakes/recommendations made by others. If you have anything to contribute I would greatly appreciate it. Either post recommendations...

The Microsoft© Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Line-of-Business (LOB) Adapter SDK provides for a simplified programming model on top of the WCF Channel Model by adding metadata browsing, searching and retrieving functionality, and development tools...

Q. It seems WCF LOB adapters works different from normal WCF service as there is no WCF Service hosted. Do we only use channelfactory to create custom channel for send wcf message to LOB without channellisterner? I just wonder how WCF LOB adapter run...

WCF LOB Adapter SDK is now generally available for download . . . We are pleased to announce the release of WCF LOB Adapter SDK. Here are some of the related links: WCF LOB Adapter SDK Technology Site WCF LOB Adapter SDK Download Site ...

In this post, I will show how WCF LOB Adapter SDK relates to WCF Service Model and WCF Channel Model. WCF Service Model provides an intuitive programming model to create service-oriented interfaces. There is plethora of information available on WCF...

An adapter built using WCF LOB Adapter SDK can be used in variety of topologies and scenarios. Follow your organization’s n-tier architecture principles and design patterns to determine where the adapter can fit best for your requirements. Usage Pattern...

The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will ship with a BizTalk WCF Adapter. The BizTalk WCF Adapter is a bridge between BizTalk and WCF. It supports features such as: Feature Description Consume metadata exposed by...

Scenario: You have already designed, implemented and hosted a WCF Service. Now, you would like to send (and get) messages to this WCF Service in a BizTalk Orchestration process. BizTalk communicates with WCF applications via BizTalk WCF Adapter, which...

Thanks to my co-worker and good friend PM Sonu Arora, I will begin posting content on the WCF LOB Adapter SDK on this site. For more information on this SDK and very useful programming information, add a link to her blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/sonuarora...

Host Integration Server 2006 Data Providers DB2 (Level 200) - Ricardo Mendes, Accessing IBM DB2 from BizTalk Server Host Integration Server 2006 Data Providers for Host Files (Level 200) - Ricardo Mendes Microsoft Visual Studio 2005...

The BizTalk Server Documentation Team is looking for customer input on the documentation of the operations topics. Specifically they said they "want to know what is missing, incorrect, unclear, or just needs work in any of the Operations topics". Go here...