I haven't had many posts in last few days as we have been working on releasing first public beta 'Release Candidate' of WCF LOB Adapter SDK. Now some of you who did express interest in trying this SDK will be able to download it without having to sign...

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...

In this post, I will show how WCF LOB Adapter SDK relates to WCF Service Model and WCF Channel Model. I have briefly talked about this topic in the following posts: · Where does a WCF LOB Adapter fit in the WCF Channel Stack? · Adapter as a WCF...

Scenario: How does WCF LOB Adapter SDK enable transaction support in the inbound message exchange handler? There are two ways of providing transaction support within the adapter inbound message exchange handler. Transactions initiated by...

WCF LOB Adapter SDK metadata object model generates WSDL / XML Schema with constructs that are well-liked by DataContractSerializer . The Svcutil.Exe creates a proxy / service interface from this WSDL containing attributes such as ServiceContract, OperationContract...

Scenario: Adapter Developer needs to define an operation signature using XML Schema types not directly supported by the WCF LOB Adapter SDK Metadata Object Model. For example, there is a need to have an operation signature like this – void SendXmlBlob...

WCF LOB Adapter SDK provides Metadata Object Model to define a contract for an operation. This object model is used within IMetadataResolver implemented classes. The purpose of this model is to generate the XML Schema representation of the parameters...

Scenario: You want to get an adapter generated WSDL / XML Schema for a subset of operations. The following code snippets show how to retrieve a ServiceDescription (WSDL) for a given set of operation identifiers. Method 1 – Using WCF provided MetadataExchangeClient...

WCF LOB Adapter SDK surfaces an adapter as a custom WCF Binding . A WCF Binding corresponds to the “How” of the WCF Message transfer from one Endpoint to another Endpoint. It produces a set of binding elements that correspond to particular design settings...

Scenario: How can an Adapter Consumer pass the operation SOAP action to the Adapter Inbound Handler StartListener() method at run-time? WCF provides a feature called Custom Behaviors that lets us inject common and "cross-cutting" logic into the WCF...

The WCF-based adapters can be used within an aggregated inter or intra enterprise business process to provide a true business level “building blocks” that reduce the time, cost and complexity of enterprise integration. Think of a composite service that...

Last week at TechEd2007 in Orlando, Florida was fabulous. I got a chance to attend a few sessions on WCF, WF and .NET 3.0 Architecture and Performance. The session on WCF LOB Adapter SDK, presented by me, Jesus Rodriguez and Wayne Citrin , had 102 attendees...