SOAP Headers with Consumed WCF Services

To send a message to a WCF service with the custom SOAP headers, these headers must be set in your orchestrations (in the Expression shape, for example) and pipeline components (in code) as the context property OutboundCustomHeaders. This context property is in the target namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2006/01/Adapters/WCF-properties, and contains string representations of the custom SOAP headers.

The data in the following XML outgoing message shows an example of the string representation of custom SOAP headers for the OutboundCustomHeaders property:

<headers>  
<Origination xmlns="http://SOAPHeaderSchemas.OrigDestSOAPHeader">Home</Origination>  
<Destination xmlns="http://SOAPHeaderSchemas.OrigDestSOAPHeader">Work</Destination>  
</headers>  

Inbound SOAP headers also contain string representations of the SOAP headers. The values are similar to creating a request SOAP header.

In This Section

• Using SOAP Headers in WCF Messages with Orchestrations

• Using SOAP Headers in WCF Messages with Pipeline Components

See Also

WCF Adapters Property Schema and Properties
SOAP Headers with Published WCF Services