WCF LOB

1 of 85 | Multiple ways to generate metadata / execute Stored Procedures in the SQL adapter - If you’ve used the SQL Adapter in CTP3 of the BizTalk Adapter Pack V2, you’ll notice that there are two nodes in the Metadata Hierarchy for Stored Procedures – one is named “Procedures”, and the other is named “Strongly-Typed Procedures”. What’s the difference, and what are the scenarios which they are meant to solve? What are their limitations? I’ll try to explain all this, in this post.   1. The first method of executing Stored Procedures which we added in the adapter, manifested as the operations under the “Procedures” node in the Metadata hierarchy. The operations here have the action “Procedure/<database_schema_name>/<procedure_name>”. For these operations, the adapter......

2 of 85 | BizTalk 2006 R2 - Microsoft has introduced BizTalk 2006 R2. This product refresh includes a number of interesting features and enhancements to improve compatibility with Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. Let’s have a look. · Microsoft EDI Solution for BizTalk 2006Microsoft’s EDI Solution for BizTalk adds full featured EDI capabilities to BizTalk 2006 with over 6000 schemas that include HIPAA, X12, and EDIFACT support.Microsoft is highly committed to the B2B space with a dedicated team focusing on B2B messaging solutions integrated with the BizTalk Architecture. This EDI solution joins a group of solutions delivered with BizTalk 2006 including HIPAA, HL7, SWIFT, RosettaNet, cXML, and xCBL.Microsoft’s g......

3 of 85 | Announcing the Biztalk Adapter Pack Poster - We're exicted 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. It 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.                           ......

4 of 85 | CTP3 of Adapter Pack v2 - CTP3 is here and we have added a lot more features based on some feedback we have been getting from various channels. So here is the list of major enhancements SQL adapter: 1)      Strongly typed polling  2)      Strongly typed stored procedures Oracle Adapter 1)      Inline Value support2)      App context initialization3)      Oracle Notifications4)      ReadLOB/Update LOB operations5)       PLSQL tables inside RecordTypes     6)      Performance improvement......

5 of 85 | Throughput stalls when using adapters, developed against the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, in BizTalk - We’ve had a few users complaining about the throughput of the adapters (the Adapter Pack ones, and/or custom ones) coming to a standstill during normal operation within BizTalk. In this post, I’ll explain why that happens, and some workarounds. Let’s say BizTalk has received 100 messages which it needs to send to the adapter on a Send Port. Assume that it queues 50 work items on 50 thread pool threads, with each work item containing 2 messages to be processed. Now, on each of the above thread pool threads, the logic used is something similar to: 1. for (int i=0; i < numberOfMessages; i++) 2. { 3. IRequestChannel channel = CreateNewIRequestChannel(); 4. channel.Open(); 5. channel.BeginRe......

6 of 85 | Using the SAP ADO.NET Provider From SSRS 2005 - One of the new features which we’re supporting in the BizTalk Adapter Pack V2 is the ability to use the SAP ADO.NET Provider from SSRS. In this post, I’ll briefly outline the steps you need to perform in order to get this to work. Firstly, install CTP3 of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK V1 SP2, and the BizTalk Adapter Pack V2 (making sure that you install the SAP ADO Provider). Next, you need to make a few changes to the SSRS related config files, in order to have the provider show up in SSRS projects: Modify the RSReportDesigner.config file under the Visual Studio 2005 installation directory (on my machine, this is present at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblie......

7 of 85 | Surfacing BizTalk Adapter Pack Adapters (WCF Bindings) as native BizTalk Adapters - One of the features we’ve enabled in the CTP3 of the BizTalk Adapter Pack V2 (which requires CTP3 of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP2), is the ability to expose the Adapters (which are in reality, WCF Bindings) as native BizTalk Adapters. Prior to this, if you wanted to use the Bindings from BizTalk, you had to use the WCF-Custom Adapter in BizTalk, then select the WCF Binding, and follow that route. With CTP3, there is now an additional way you can use the adapters. Firstly, install the CTP3 of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP2, and the CTP3 of the BizTalk Adapter Pack V2. Open the BizTalk Server 2006 Administration Console Navigate to the node as displayed in the screen shot below, right click in t......

8 of 85 | Live Blog - Day 1 Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - Introduction to BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - I am going to try to do a live blog as I did for the 2 day at PDC for this four-day course that I am taking with Jon Flanders in NYC. Looks like today will have a lot of WCF so that's good for me. Instead of doing the labs on the provided machines, Jon has encouraged me to go ahead and do them on this Alienware and take them with me. I have actually two installs of BizTalk; one here on Vista that is not 100% and a more official one on the Win2K3 VPC image on the attached drive, which will be the one that I will be using. Introduction to BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Overview if R2 Feature Set WCF Adapter EDI/AS2 Infrastructure WCF LOB Adapters WCF LOB Adapter Framework SDK BAM Inter......

9 of 85 | BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0/WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster -   This poster depicts the BizTalk Adapter Pack components, the architecture of its WCF-based adapters, as well as the interoperability of line-of-business applications with the Adapter Pack and the WCF LOB Adapter SDK. CLICK HERE to download the poster.   ...

10 of 85 | 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......

11 of 85 | 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 pack and of the Adapter SDK. This would simplif......

12 of 85 | Changes to the WCF LOB Adapter SDK in SP2 - If you’re developing your own adapters against the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, then it might be worth your while to try out the June CTP of the SP2 of the WCF LOB ASDK. There are a few minor changes, but we might make more based on your feedback. I’m mentioning...(read more)...

13 of 85 | WCF LOB Adapter SDK : a interoperabilidade continua em pauta. - Olá pessoal, tudo certo? Semana passada, tivemos o MIX Essentials 2008, evento importante dentro da Microsoft Brasil, para profissionais Web, criativos e designers. Também estiveram muitos "deviners", como agora são conhecidos os developers/designer, importantes para a construção de interfaces com alto nível de usabilidade e UX - User Experience. Entretanto, gostaria de destacar hoje um ponto importante nesse contexto, que é a interoperabilidade com o mundo antigo :) Independente de interfaces poderosas ou revoluções no mundo visual, nossas soluções serão sempre demandadas para falar com o legado, sistemas de linhas de negócio ou investimentos já feitos pela empresa. Tudo precisará se......

14 of 85 | Speaking at TechEd US 2008 - We're less than a week away from TechEd US, and I finally have a blog up!  This year TechEd will be very exciting for me - my first ever event speaking as a non-Microsoftie.  This is a big change for me...  I have to get accustomed to referring to Microsoft as "they" instead of "we". Even while working on the outside they seem to give me a ton of stuff to do - I have one breakout session and two TLCs: Tuesday, June 3rd, @ 10:30AM - SOA03-TLC - Read World Business Activity Monitoring This is not your ordinary BAM session!  We (Jesus Rodriguez and I) will be showing some cool demos on how to use BAM, which include some of the little-to-non-documented aspects of BAM.  The demos will show th......

15 of 85 | Neuron ESB and Endpoints - Neuron ESB and Endpoints Today I’d like to talk about how Neuron ESB connects to physical endpoints in the enterprise. Two blog posts ago I talked about Neuron’s topic network architecture, and in my last blog post I focused on the internal side of the bus, where channels implement pub-sub over a variety of Microsoft technologies ranging from WCF to BizTalk Server. But just how do those publisher and subscriber nodes relate to the physical world of services and clients? And what about non-service applications? We’ll answer that here as we talk about the external side of the bus. First off, let’s mention in passing that one way you can program against Neuron is to write .NET programs using ......

16 of 85 | A High Level View of the Neuron ESB Architecture - A High Level View of the Neuron ESB Architecture Today I’d like to provide a very high level view of the Neuron ESB architecture. Understanding this will help put individual features and concepts in context as I describe them in upcoming articles. The bus is best thought of as having a distinct outside and inside, as the figure below illustrates. ·         The outside of the bus is concerned with connecting to diverse enterprise applications, services, and legacy systems ·         The inside of the bus is concerned with interconnecting endpoints via publish-subscribe messaging and performing integration services. The Outside of the Bus  The outside of the bus has exacty one purpose: to e......

17 of 85 | WCF, WF, and BizTalk Sessions at TechEd - With TechEd Developer closer at hand, I've put together the latest schedule data for sessions of interest to developers for each of the different products. The first group is sessions of general interest. The second group is sessions focusing on WCF and WF development. The third group is sessions focusing on CardSpace development. The fourth group is sessions focusing on BizTalk development. Microsoft Strategy and Vision for SOA by Oliver Sharp Services are fundamentally changing the way we build, deploy, and manage applications. In this session we identify common challenges, and share our latest guidance and success stories. In addition, we outline Microsoft's stra......

18 of 85 | BizTalk Adapter Pack V1 -   Overview An adapter is a software component that enables you to send and receive messages to and from a line-of-business (LOB) system. The primary design goal of adapters is to facilitate the exchange of business documents between trading partners. The adapters provide the following advantages to clients: Consistent design-time experience. The adapters provide a common and user-friendly design time experience for browsing, searching, and retrieving metadata of LOB artifacts. Varied programming options. The adapters provide a choice of programming model including Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Channel Model, WCF Service Model, ADO.NET or through BizTalk orchestration......

19 of 85 | Where are the non R2 Adapter Samples? - I got stuck with the complexities of the awful NativeSQL schemas when working with the Oracle ODBC adapter and i thought i had got lucky when i saw a PollingQuery sample but on closer examination of the binding files etc it was clear that the WCF LOB...(read more)...

20 of 85 | Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Adapter - We are currently working on an Oracle EBS (aka Oracle Apps) Adapter for the next release of Adapter Pack, along with a SQL Server Adapter. The Oracle EBS adapter will be built using WCF LOB Adapter SDK. At a high-level, we are planning to have the following set of features in the adapter: Ability to interface with PL/SQL APIs Perform operations on the Interface tables/Views Execute Concurrent programs Support for Simple Data Types, UDTs, Table types, Boolean types.   Do you use XMLGateways and Business Events in your Oracle E-Business scenarios and want to see it as part of the Oracle EBS adapter? We would like to hear about any other specific features that you would like t......

21 of 85 | Announcing the Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack – Office Developer Program - As was already announced on this forum, the BizTalk Adapter Pack (BAP) was announced more than a month ago during the Office Developer Conference and became available starting March 1st. The BAP provides a robust and comprehensive out-of-the-box connectivity infrastructure to three major line-of-business (LOB) systems - SAP, Siebel, and Oracle Databases. The technology is based on the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) LOB Adapter SDK and inherently relies on the core WCF concepts, principles, and classes implemented in the .NET Framework 3.5. Along with the BAP, we also launched the BizTalk Adapter Pack – Office Developer Program, designed to validate the use of the BizTalk Adapter P......

22 of 85 | The new "WCF LOB Adapter SDK"-based SQL Adapter. - As mentioned in this post, we're developing a new SQL Adapter, which will be available in the next release of the BizTalk Adapter Pack. The list of features which we're supporting is mentioned in that blog post.As for the features/items/etc which we've decided not to support, they are: SQL Server versions prior to SQL 2005. The ability to perform one or more INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations, on one or more tables, all within the same XML message. In our current design, within a single message, you can either perform one or more INSERT, or UPDATE, or DELETE operations, all on the same TABLE or VIEW. The ability to have multiple transactional blocks within the same XML message. A......

23 of 85 | Transactional behavior in a receive location using an adapter - Quite a few customers developing custom adapters built on the WCF LOB Adapter SDK have come back to us asking for details on how to have transactional behavior while receiving messages from the LOB and submitting them to BizTalk (receive location) - for example, assume in your receive location:You read some data from the LOBYou delete the data from the LOB (since you don't want to read it again)In IInboundHandler, you construct a message containing this dataYou return this message via the out parameter in the TryReceive function (in other words, you are submitting this message into BizTalk).If an error occurs after step 4, you have lost the data! (since it has already been deleted from the ......

24 of 85 | ?SOA ???? WCF ??? (1)? WCF ? BizTalk???? LOB Adapter - ?????? ???????.NET Framework 3.0 ?????WCF ????????????????????(?????WCF ????????????????????WCF ?????? ??? ?????????????????????) WCF ?????????????????????????????Microsoft ????? SOA ?????????????????? BizTalk Server ??????????????????????????????Microsoft ????????????????? ?2?????????????????????? ????????????????????(?????????BizTalk ?????????????????????????) ??????????????????????? SOA ???? WCF ??? (?????) WCF ? BizTalk, ??? LOB Adapter WCF ???? Binding ? Channel (??) WCF LOB Adapter SDK ?????...(read more)...

25 of 85 | WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP1 Available - The new 'Adapter Framework' (in BizTalk speak - this would be the Adapter V2.0 Framework) is now available. This new WCF based Adapter Framework allows developers to build, deploy and execute standalone Adapters - whether BizTalk Server is present or not. The framework is designed very much for standalone application (& can be 'plugged' into BizTalk R2 if desired), and as a .NET developer you can consider this as an additional .NET library that provides the abilility to allow you to build standalone adapters for your .NET applications (e.g. console app, or Word) p.s. The BizTalk Adapter Pack is built ontop of this framework. :-) Grab SP1 below: http://www.microsoft......

26 of 85 | WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP1 - Download WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP1 at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=106906 ....(read more)...

27 of 85 | New Code Samples for WCF Adapter Pack - I’ll admit to being fairly underwhelmed with the sample bits for the BizTalk Server 2006 LOB adapters.  If was often trial and error to figure out how to get the Oracle adapter working right, or figuring out how to do something specific with the Siebel adapter.  Very few details or examples were provided. That said, looks like the Connected Systems team is much more aggressively sharing information about the new [BizTalk] Adapter Pack.  I just noticed a cornucopia of new code samples for the WCF LOB Adapter Pack.    For each of the three available adapters (SAP, Oracle, Siebel),  you’ll find samples for using the adapter with BizTalk, and, as a standalone WCF LOB adapter.  The Oracle adapte......

28 of 85 | BizTalk WCF Adapter Pack - What is it? what are they? - Wow - a BizTalk adapter Pack announcement is looming (ready March 1 actually). What is the BizTalk Adapter Pack?? I hear you ask.....I did too when I first heard of it. Quick Bit of History - 'Adapters' was a term typically used within a BizTalk space and to build adapters in BizTalk was a 'character' building experience where several COM interfaces needed to be implemented (with some of those interface's origins being in the year 2000!) - for all that dev effort the 'adapters' only lived in BizTalk -land. Wouldn't it be great to utilise your Adapter from other 'hosts' or environments such as Word/Sharepoint/Access/MS Project/BizTal......

29 of 85 | About dotNETwork Usergroup 2nd Gathering -Or- WCF Messaging, SQL Server 2008 Manageability - Today was .NETwork usergroup second gathering. The usergroup is the first and only large/effective "offline" usergroup in Egypt (although there're many others in INETA). They had a great success in their first gathering when they brought Steven Forte to talk about SQL Server 2008 new features for developers and ASP.NET MVC design pattern. I had a detailed post about it in my GWB blog at that time. Check it out for details. Background: First To Second Gathering (Warning: Boring Part!!) The .NETwork gatherings so far are more like small independent events. We -SilverKey Tech- were the first to start such events with our full day event, DemoDay (See GWB posts on DemoDay I, DemoDay II ), and ......

30 of 85 | WADL and WSDL and REST, oh my! - Hernan Garcia made an interesting comment on my post of yesterday:  For REST, there is an alternative to the WSDL in SOAP and it is WADL. Good point Mr Garcia - The adoption and practical utility of WADL is worth watching.  The question for me becomes whether WADL+REST is actually better than WSDL+SOAP, or just different.  Whether REST has succeeded to the extent that it has, in spite of lack of WSDL-like tools, or in fact, because of the lack of WSDL-like tools?  Is the appeal of REST that there is no single set of tools, which thus limits the possibility to be overcome by galloping complexity, as some have characterized WS-*?  All interesting.  I......

31 of 85 | WCF-based BizTalk Adapter Pack is released to manufacturing! - The adapters team is very happy to announce the release of the following products on Jan 31, 2008: BizTalk Adapter Pack WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP1 BizTalk Adapter Pack contains the new WCF-based adapters for SAP, Siebel and Oracle Database. These adapters...(read more)...

32 of 85 | A new (WCF LOB Adapter SDK based) SQL Adapter - The current release of the Adapter Pack contains the SAP, Siebel and Oracle adapters (written using the WCF LOB Adapter SDK). For the next release of the Adapter Pack, one of the adapters which we're adding is a SQL Adapter. Some of the features which we're addressing are: SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 datatypes (XML, VARCHAR(MAX), VARBINARY(MAX), Date, Time, DateTime2 and DateTimeOffset) UDTs (which includes SQL 2008 UDTs like Geometry, Geography and HierarchyId) Table Parameters 64 bit Enterprise SSO User-defined schemas (schemas other than dbo) Specifying the transaction IsolationLevel to use during polling An ExecuteReader() operation which can be used to execute arbitrary SQL s......

33 of 85 | Understanding various WCF communication options - David Chappell has written an interesting paper outlining various messaging options available in the .NET Framework 3.5 including WCF channels, RESTful communication and BizTalk Services. There is also a section on WCF LOB Adapter SDK in this document...(read more)...

34 of 85 | How To: Obtain a list of receive actions when an ASDK-based Adapter is used with BizTalk in a Receive Location - The WCF LOB Adapter SDK (ASDK) contains a behavior named "InboundActionEndpointBehavior" which you can add to your ServiceHost in inbound scenarios. What this behavior does is, at runtime, analyzes the contract deployed, determines the Actions on the Contract, and passes those to the adapter in the StartListener() call (on the IInboundHandler interface) via the "string[] actions" parameter. This allows the adapter to determine what actions the user is listening for, and send only messages of those type. More information on this can be found at: http://blogs.msdn.com/sonuarora/archive/2007/06/11/passing-soap-actions-to-adapter-inbound-handler-for-filtering-type-of-listeners.aspx What do yo......

35 of 85 | Tech•Ed U.S. 2008 Call for BizTalk Content - SOA and Web Infrastructure Track - Although TechEd doesn’t happen until June, there is an extensive timeline that requires us to have sessions submitted in January in order to drive demand generation for the event. Thank you in advance for making TechEd, our largest customer event - a priority. This year TechEd will feature two separate back-to-back conferences: Tech·Ed U.S. 2008 Developers, June 3-6, and Tech·Ed U.S. 2008 IT Professionals, June 10-13, in Orlando, FL.   Currently we need more BizTalk session proposals especially for the IT Pro conference.   This year we would like to emphasize the following topics: ·         BizTalk Server 2006 R2 new features in actio......

36 of 85 | Découvrir WCF en .Net 3.5 - David Chappell présente les scénarios d' utilisation de la technologie WCF suite à la sortie du framework .Net 3.5. Cet article met en exergue les bénéfices dont vos développements .Net tireront parti. Au-delà du support de REST, si vous êtes familier avec la version 3.0 de WCF, je vous recommande de lire les passages WCF LOB Adapter SDK ainsi que BizTalk Services (Identity & Connectivity Services)....

37 of 85 | Come join us at the BizTalk R2 Launch Fest! - I will be presenting the about the WCF LOB Adapter SDK ("Connect ANYthing") at the BizTalk R2 launch on December 13th at the Microsoft Silicone Valley Campus. Please join us for this event - we have some interesting new stuff to show and talk about in the SOA, ESB, BPM arena.  Following is the official invitation.  Sign up today - it's free! ***************** Join industry experts from Xterprise, Magenic Technologies, and Microsoft on December 13th, 2007 for the BizTalk R2 Launch- Extending SOA beyond the Edge of the Enterprise Event,  to discover how you can take advantage of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM).  Globalization, competition, and......

38 of 85 | Differences between the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Line-Of-Business (LOB) Adapter Pack and the BizTalk Adapter Framework - With the impending release of the Microsoft BizTalk Server Adapter Pack (Beta 2 available here), there are some confusions as to the differences between the BizTalk Adapter Pack, Microsoft's WCF Line of Business (LOB) Adapter SDK, and of course, the (older) BizTalk Adapter Framework. In a nutshell, the BizTalk Adapter Pack is written and developed on top of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK (which is free and freely downloadable). The value-add is that the LOBs that it can integrate with ootb are SAP (mySAP Business Suite), ORACLE (Oracle Database) and SIEBEL (Siebel eBusiness Applications). Of course, a lot of grunt work is taken away from you, as explained here. One of......

39 of 85 | TechEd Developers Barcelona - Nov 6 - Maha and I did an interactive session on "Developing adapters with WCF LOB Adapter SDK". Here is an abstract on the session: "The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Line-of-Business (LOB) Adapter SDK provides a uniform way to expose your existing...(read more)...

40 of 85 | WCF Siebel adapter Vs Biztalk Siebel adapter - What are the differences between old Siebel adapter shipped with Biztalk releases and WCF based Siebel adapter? Here is the list: Since new Siebel adapter is developed using WCF LOB Adapter SDK (ASDK), ASDK features like Browse, Search and Resolve are available to end users via metadata search browse tool. While old adapter supports only browse. Metadata returned by new adapter complies with standard webservice WSDL format. This means Siebel adapter can be consumed by various technologies as webservices after the generated contract gets hosted as WCF service. New Siebel adapter has broader reach. It can be consumed by any.NET application, Biztalk, SQL Server integration services, MOSS......

41 of 85 | Introducing BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - In today's world, most of the modern business processes, in some way, depend on software systems. To automate these business processes it is necessary to connect various software systems. Following things should be considered when integrating these systems: Connect to diverese systems using different approaches. That is, while for some systems we may utilize web services to connect each other, for some other it will still make sense to connect them using a simple file share. There could also be some other approaches as MSMQ, etc. Also these business processes need to interact with Line of Business (LOB) applications such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, J D Edwards etc. Centralized Integrati......

42 of 85 | What is BizTalk Adapter Pack? - BizTalk Adapter Pack contains a collection of key Line-of-Business (LOB) application adapters for enabling Windows applications to integrate with the LOB applications using WCF programming model. These adapters are written using WCF LOB Adapter SDK. The...(read more)...

43 of 85 | BizTalk Oracle Adapter Vs WCF-based Oracle DB Adapter - The following is a list of key feature differences between the BizTalk Oracle adapter and the WCF-based Oracle DB adapter in the BizTalk Adapter Pack. 1.       LOB access: While the BizTalk Oracle adapter uses an ODBC driver to connect to Oracle DB, the WCF-based Oracle DB adapter uses Oracle’s ODP.NET 2.       Inbound processing: The BizTalk Oracle adapter supports a “Polling Query” and a “TableChangedEvent” mechanism for receiving data from Oracle into BizTalk. The WCF-based Oracle DB adapter replaces these mechanisms with a single polling based mechanism that that supports the following key features: a.    ......

44 of 85 | Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference Live Blog Monday - Day 2 of the course. Discovered Twitter last night but having problems with my account (currently cannot log in and can't reset password) so here goes. Last night, had a great dinner with Tim Rayburn and a bunch of BizTalk MVPs. Lots of great discussions. Aaron has been shuttling me around with Jon and Matt, so I am getting to spend great quality time with the Pluralsight guys. This course rocks BTW and I would highly recomend it! Today, we start with What's New in BizTalk Server R2. I have to get much deeper in BizTalk so this is going to be great! I am really excited anout the new WCF Adapters - should make writing adapters much easier and standard EDI baked into R......

45 of 85 | Positioning the BizTalk Adapter Pack - The adapters constituting the BizTalk Adapter Pack are fundamentally custom WCF binding elements. Built on the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, these adapters are host agnostic i.e. they are not tied to a specific product like BizTalk. However, their predecessors, the BizTalk adapters for enterprise applications, are built on the BizTalk Adapter Framework and cannot be used outside BizTalk. Some of the key themes that contributed to the thinking of the BizTalk Adapter Pack include: ·         Feature improvements to address BizTalk adapter customer pain points besides achieving feature parity with the BizTalk adapters. ·       ......

46 of 85 | WCF LOB Adapter SDK at upcoming conferences - I still have a part of my foot in the WCF and LOB adapters world. :-) I can be found talking about connectivity with the line-of-business applications using WCF LOB Adapter SDK and BizTalk Adapter Pack at the following two upcoming conferences. If you...(read more)...

47 of 85 | SOA Infrastructure Webinar - Hosted by Neudesic - LIVE WEBCAST SOA Infrastructure Webinar Thu., Oct. 18, 2007 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Central Time (Welcome Time: 10:55 AM Central) Microsoft Event Code # 121389     PRESENTER INFO Chad Thomas - Principal Consultant II, Neudesic Chad operates Neudesic's Midwest Region Connected Systems/SOA practice. As an early evangelist for Service Orientation, he has been giving lectures and hosting training sessions on SOA since 2000. Over the last 5 years, Chad has specialized in helping Fortune 500 companies in the financial services vertical move to Service Oriented networks.   &......

48 of 85 | Step by Step to add new WCF LOB Adapter to your .Net Solution - Background: After we downloaded WCF LOB Adapter SDK and read my previous post. You will find all the customization options and Installation Guide for the WCF LOB Adapter SDK in this linkhttp://download.microsoft.com/download/9/0/d/90d3fc09-de48-4d83-8147-e8a08275c255/InstallationGuide.htm ·         Select all (Runtime, Tools and Samples) Installation Results: you will find a new kind of projects in your Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2005 called “WCF LOB Adapter” Now, let’s start: 1-      From Microsoft Visual Studio, select New Project and on Visual C# Projects choose WCF LOB Adapter from visual studio installed templates ......

49 of 85 | Introduction to WCF LOB Adapter SDK - What is WCF LOB Adapter SDK? The WCF LOB Adapter SDK is targeted at developers that are interested in exposing their line-of-business (LOB) systems for integration purposes to any .NET integration broker/integration application. For purposes of this discussion a LOB system may be defined as a metadata rich back end systems whose functionality is too rich and dynamic to be captured in traditional static Web Service Description Language (WSDL) contracts. This SDK enables development of metadata driven, host-agnostic adapters i.e. independent of consuming app, which helps you avoid duplication of effort in writing adapters   How does WCF LOB Adapter differ from a WCF Service?......

50 of 85 | Moving on ... - As we have shipped the V1 of WCF LOB Adapter SDK, I am now moving onto a new project. I hope this blog was useful for the subset of developers who are interested in developing WCF-based adapters. If there are any specific question, I will be happy to...(read more)...