Can the SAP Connector for .NET be used in Visual Studio 2005?

Since the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, we have received many questions regarding the SAP Connector for .NET and its lack of support in Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

The design-time environment of the SAP Connector for .NET works only in Visual Studio 2003; the runtime environment of the SAP Connector for .NET works correctly with .NET Framework 1.1 and with .NET Framework 2.0. Proxies generated using Visual Studio 2003 may be transferred to Visual Studio 2005 without problem. Existing solutions developed [using Visual Studio 2003] for .NET Framework 1.1 will run – unchanged – on .NET Framework 2.0.

It is possible to install Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 with both versions of the .NET framework – side by side - on the same machine. It is not then necessary to have a separate machine to develop the proxies.

Please note the SAP Connector for .NET is an SAP technology. Visual Studio and the .NET Framework are Microsoft technologies.

- Juergen

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 20, 2006
  I wrote in a previous blog entry that the design-time of the SAP Connector for Microsoft .NET does not...
• Anonymous
  September 05, 2006
  There is available a SAP Explorer Connector for Visual Studio 2005. This is an Add-in that generate proxies for RFC's and BAPIs.
  This Add-In is based on the SAP.Connector's XSLT files, which allows itself to create the same code that the SAP.Connector  for Visual Studio .NET 2003. Current version works perfectly for almost any kind of C# project: Web sites, Console Projects, Windows Applications and Class Libraries.
  For more details please read the following tutorial http://www.softwise.com.ar/files/SoftwiseSAPExplorerTutorial.pdf
• Anonymous
  June 05, 2009
  There's a new version of the SAP® Explorer & Proxy Generator for Visual Studio Team System® 2008 available here http://www.softwise.com.ar/products.php. It has many new features with a very competitive license price.