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 systems provide the same interface to their data and...

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 for generating and testing adapter code. You...

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 time works behind scene. WCF Service is hosted...

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 WCF LOB Adapter SDK MSDN Forum BizTalk Server...

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 (aka Indigo) now since its inception few years ago...

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 1 – Consume adapter in a .NET managed application...

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 WCF services At design-time, in a...

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 can be configured through send and receive ports...