All posts by : BizTalk Adapter Development

1 of 12 | "Consuming and Hosting WCF Services with Custom Bindings in BizTalk Server" Whitepaper - "Consuming and Hosting WCF Services with Custom Bindings in BizTalk Server is a new WCF whitepaper.  You can find the download page from MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203050.aspx, or download it directly from the download center at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=70badd79-ce7e-4ccb-be5c-3ff74ca3a8c4&displaylang=en.  Here are the first few paragraphs from the paper giving a brief introduction of it's content. With the realization of the benefits of developing and orchestrating unified business solutions, today’s business organizations adopt the paradigm of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based solution development fo......

2 of 12 | "Using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Adapters in BizTalk Server" Whitepaper - Written by Aaron Skonnard, this was originally named "Integrating Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with the Windows Communication Foundation". It has been renamed to "Using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Adapters in Biztalk Server". It can be found  on MSDN at  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb967002.aspx, or directly from the download center at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a976dc7d-2296-4f88-be4d-0d314fca9e59&displaylang=en&tm. Here are the first few paragraphs from the paper giving a brief introduction of it's content. Microsoft® BizTalk® Server has long supported Web services as a primary communication technique but the......

3 of 12 | Adapter Pack Poster from Microsoft - Announcing the Biztalk Adapter Pack Poster   We are happy to announce the availability of the new BizTalk Adapter Pack Poster. This poster covers interoperability with Line-of-Business Applications using the BizTalk Adapter Pack and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) LOB Adapter SDK. This poster depicts the functionality, components, architecture, and usage/hosting scenarios of BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 and of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK. When printed in full scale, this poster size is 38”x 26”.   The poster in PDF format is available for download in the Microsoft Download Center.     We have designed this poster to promote the adoption of the Adapter pa......

4 of 12 | New WCF BizTalk Whitepaper - We just posted the new whitepaper "Integrating Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with the Windows Communication Foundation" on one of the adapter web pages at  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/bb545017.aspx, as well as part of the MSDN library at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627292.aspx.      Here is a summary of its content:   This paper describes the use of the BizTalk WCF adapters for hosting and consuming WCF services. As a key objective, it provides an in-depth understanding of the means of integrating a custom WCF channel stack with the BizTalk WCF adapters. Furthermore, key industrial infrastructure concerns such as transactio......

5 of 12 | Three New WCF Adapter Samples - I have recently posted three WCF Adapter samples off the BizTalk Server Developer Center at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/bb608378.aspx, Two samples were released today. The first one is of a WCF message intemediary where an incoming WCF message to BizTalk is dynamically channeled to the correct version of the the WCF service. The second one is shows custom message interception during BizTalk Server's binding processing of an outgoing WCF message. The third sample was published in January and is an example of using pure WCF messaging with the WCF adapters....

6 of 12 | Tell me...what do you want for WCF adapter documenation? - Hi Is there a specific WCF adapter sample or whitepaper you feel you would like to see written? If so, please email me directly and let's discuss to see if I can get what is needed any WCF adapter content.Please put on the subject line "WCF Adapter Documentation Recommendation" ,and send to mckeown@microsoft.com. Thank you....

7 of 12 | Using WCF Adapters with SQL Server Integration Services(SSIS) - There are two ways the adapters belonging to Adapter Pack can be used by SQL Service Integration Services: 1. Using ADO layer built on top of base adapters. This option is available with SAP and Siebel adapters. 2. Writing custom SSIS task which directly invokes adapter to communicate with LOB system. Option 1 covers all scenarios where data need to be moved from LOB system into SQL server. The reason being that ADO layer exposes only Query and Execute interfaces. Using these ADO interfaces, we can only pull out data from LOB system. If usage scenario is such that data has to be loaded into LOB system, then option 1 doesn't help. But that is the not end of story. We can write cust......

8 of 12 | Why does the Adapter say ‘Action is not understood’ even though I am using the binding file generated by the ‘Consume Adapter Service’ wizard? - Believe me, the adapter is telling the truth! It really doesn’t understand the action it got! To understand what’s going on, read on… When you use the ‘Consume Adapter Service’ wizard to generate LOB schemas in a BizTalk project, you also get a binding file which you can import (using the BizTalk Administration Console) to create the corresponding physical WCF-Custom port (Send or Receive Port, based on whether the contract was Outbound or Inbound respectively) when deploying your BizTalk Application. While this does save you the pain of creating and configuring the port manually, there is a ‘not-so-obvious’ caveat which you need to be aware of. (This applies only to send ports i.e. Outbou......

9 of 12 | Download New Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Line-of-Business (LOB) Adapter SDK - 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 can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=56278FDE-B708-469C-987E-DED9C6C5E580&displaylang=en....

10 of 12 | Wanted - Best Practices for Configuring and Using the new R2 WCF Adapters - I am looking to document "best practice" experiences in configuring and using the new R2 WCF adapters so others can learn from the mistakes/recommendations made by others. If you have anything to contribute I would greatly appreciate it.  Either post recommendations here or email me directly at mmckeown@microsoft.com with "WCF Adapter Best Practices" in the heading. I am working to compile a list and publish it by end of October. Thank you!...

11 of 12 | How the WCF LOB Adapter SDK works with IChannelFactory and IChannelListener - 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 using a class called ServiceHost.  The ServiceHost encapsulates the functionality regarding bindings, channels, dispatchers and listeners.  WCF LOB Adapter is surfaced to the consumer as a WCF Binding, where the binding is used to create the channel stack. This binding can be considered a peer to other predefined WCF bindings such as BasicHttpBinding, WsHttpBinding, NetTcpBinding, etc ......

12 of 12 | WCF LOB Adapter SDK Download - 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 Roadmap Building Custom WCF Channels While the team is working on providing the official documentation, see some of the following posts to learn more about WCF LOB Adapter SDK. About WCF LOB Adapter SDK Basic Q & A Adapter usage patterns WCF LOB Adapter SDK and its relationship with WCF Channel Model Using adapter code generation wizard Consuming WCF LOB Adapter in BizTalk Serve......