The WCF Services can be defined with a one-way contract , request-reply or a duplex contract. The default behavior of a service operation is the request-reply pattern . In a request-reply pattern, the client waits for the reply message, even if the service...

Do you have mySAP Business Suite, Siebel or Oracle Database in your organization? Would you be interested in integrating with these systems from within your custom .NET, BizTalk Server and/or Office applications using Windows Communication Foundation...

Objective: Create a setup project (Setup.exe and/or MSI) for distributing the adapter code and its relevant dependencies using Windows Installer To install the WCF LOB Adapter on the end-user’s machine, at minimum, there is a need to install the...

Method 1 – Content-Based Routing (No Orchestration) [I will reword and extend this section later – this is my 5 minute synopsis to complete the series for testing the Adapter Inbound Handler. ] In this scenario, the WCF-based Adapter hosted...

You saw in this post , how to test the inbound functionality of the WCF-based adapter using the WCF Service Model. If you are interested in testing the Adapter Inbound Handler using the WCF Channel Model, the following sample shows you how to do so...

In my previous post, I covered the Adapter Developer perspective on creating a sample WCF-based adapter with Inbound Message Exchange Handler support. Once the inbound handler implementation is complete in the adapter, the adapter is ready for consumption...

Microsoft Tech.ED 2007 is taking place in Orlando, Florida from June 4 to June 8, 2007. There are many exciting sessions being offered at the Tech.Ed. Here is a snapshot of some WCF related sessions that I personally find interesting in no particular...

Scenario: Receive business events from the target system and trigger a method in the WCF Service The Inbound Handler normalizes the notifications and target-system initiated operations, accepts incoming messages and dispatches them to the interested...

Scenario: Client executes a single synchronous outbound call in the target system using the adapter Content 1) Adapter Developer Perspective: Implement execute() method in adapter implementation of IOutboundHandler 2) Adapter Consumer Perspective...

The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will ship with a BizTalk WCF Adapter. The BizTalk WCF Adapter is a bridge between BizTalk and WCF. *NEW* You can download a great paper written by Aaron Skonnard on Windows Communication Foundation Adapters in Microsoft...