WCF LOB Adapter SDK provides the following built-in performance counters to help gauge performance of the adapter. You can view these performance counters in Performance Management Console (perfmon.msc). Select the performance object named "ServiceModel Adapters". % Cache full ...

Do you want your .NET application to talk to WebSphere MQ Series? IBM has utilized the extensibility features of WCF and built a proof-of-concept Custom Channel for WebSphere MQ for Windows Communication Foundation . This proof-of-concept product enables IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ) to be used as a custom...

See following posts for more information on this topic. How to: Browse/Search metadata from WCF LOB Adapter How to: Retrieve WSDL from WCF LOB Adapter

Adapter consumer can browse/search metadata from WCF LOB Adapter using following ways: Using Add Adapter Service Reference Visual Studio Plug-In Using Consume Adapter Service BizTalk Project Add-In Using Microsoft.ServiceModel.Channels.Tools.MetadataSearchBrowse.MetadataUserControl Using...

Add Adapter Service Reference Visual Studio Plug-In generates a Common Language Runtime (CLR) objects in C#, VB, J#, etc. and Consume Adapter Service BizTalk Project Add-In generates XML Schemas. You can use one of the following methods to generate a Web Servce Description Language (WSDL) file for selected...

The Consume Adapter Service BizTalk Project Add-In is metadata generation tool included in WCF LOB Adapter SDK for use with BizTalk Projects. This add-in is only installed if WCF LOB Adapter SDK Setup detects BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (RC or RTW version) on user’s machine. This tool can be used by adapter...

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 Add Adapter Service Reference Visual Studio Plug-In is metadata proxy generation tool shipped with WCF LOB Adapter SDK. It is installed on the users machine as part of Typical setup of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK. This tool can be used by the adapter consumers in Visual Studio 2005 to browse (and search...

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, DataContract, DataMember, etc. If...

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 Ensure you have the metadata...

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 runtime either at the proxy (i.e., the client) or...

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 involves the consumption of multiple business functions...

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 (WCF) service oriented interfaces? Microsoft...

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. This bypasses the de-serialization of the WCF messages...

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. In this post, I am going to give high level...

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: Test Adapter Outbound Handler functionality...

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 BizTalk Server 2006 R2 from this link . ...

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 Binding. The Adapter Consumer uses the WCF client...

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 descriptive definition. The WCF LOB Adapter metadata...

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 list of options supported by this utility. In...

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 or used. If, however, you wish to use the Adapters...