A message exchange pattern describes how messages flow between two endpoints. Choosing a message exchange pattern is the first step in writing a custom transport channel. An adapter developed using the WCF LOB Adapter SDK is a custom transport channel...

Download to evaluate it at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/longhorn/audsel.mspx . Besides other features, it also includes Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, which provides the benefits of running a WCF service on the internet using various...

Microsoft released beta version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Code Named "Orcas" and .NET 3.5 on April 19, 2007. Get started by downloading - "Orcas" Beta 1 Software (VPC image) "Orcas" Beta 1 Whitepaper "Orcas" Pre-Beta 1 CTP WCF &...

Scenario: The adapter needs the client credentials for establishing connection with the target system. How can a WCF client pass these credentials to the adapter? Remeber, the WCF-based adapter built using WCF LOB Adapter SDK is surfaced within a WCF...

One of the key features of WCF LOB Adapter SDK is target system’s Connection Management. This posts talk about how connection management is accomplished within an adapter. Contents · Connection Lifecycle · Connection Pool Settings · Extracting...

At MVP Summit 2007, a couple of attendees asked about how the WCF LOB Adapter SDK surfaces and handles BizTalk multi-part messages . Well, the short answer is – since Multi-part messages are not supported in BizTalk WCF Adapter Beta 2, they are not...

The following diagrams show how WCF LOB Adapter SDK and the adapters built using the SDK fit in the WCF channel stack. WCF Layered Channels WCF LOB Adapter SDK Layered Channels Typical Message Exchange Outbound Message...

The adapter built using WCF LOB Adapter SDK is comprised of design-time and run-time components. The design-time user experience consists of browsing, searching and extracting Service Contract with choice of operations from the adapter. The run-time provides...

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...

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft's unified programming model for building service-oriented applications with managed code. It extends the .NET Framework to enable developers to build secure and reliable transacted Web Services that...

The Adapter Browse Handler and Adapter Search Handler implementations return an array of objects of type MetadataRetrievalNode. This object structure doesn’t contain the actual information about the input and output types of each operation. The input...

The implementation and usage of metadata search handler is identical to metadata browse handler, with the exception of this class returning a filtered list of metadata objects back to the caller depending on the passed in search criteria. It can return...

Most databases and LOB applications provide some form of metadata that can be used to define the data that is exchanged between the adapter and the target system. Adapter Developer needs to implement IMetadataBrowseHandler interface provided within WCF...

WCF LOB Adapter SDK extends the WCF channel architecture with Metadata Object Model and provides an infrastructure for browsing, searching, retrieving and importing metadata from the adapter. What is metadata? See this wikipedia definition for a more...

After WCF LOB Adapter SDK is installed on the system, the Adapter Developer can use the WCF LOB Adapter Development Wizard within Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to create skeleton code for a new adapter. To invoke the wizard, select File > New > Project...

In WCF programming model, one of the usage of ServiceModel Metadata Utility Tool ( Svcutil.Exe ) is to generate WCF service proxy files from static metadata documents (WSDL / XML Schema) or from running services. Use the command “svcutil /?” to see the...

One of the commonly asked questions I get is - "Do I need to install BizTalk Server as a pre-requisite for WCF LOB Adapter SDK?". The answer is No. The Adapter SDK doesn't require BizTalk Server installed on a system, before Adapter SDK can be installed...

Today the BizTalk Server Team at Microsoft is delighted to announce the availability of Beta 2 release of the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 on the MS Connect Site. To Access the connect site for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Go to http://connect.microsoft...

I spent my last extended weekend in Toronto with my family and friends. It was my sister's birthday and we went to La Fenice restaurant for good Italian food and wine. The celebration continued on Saturday at Sam and Pete's with more food, drinks, live...