WCF LOB Adapter SDK and BizTalk Adapter Pack

The BizTalk Adapter Pack, comprising of the SAP, Siebel, OracleDB, OracleEBS and SQL WCF Bindings / Adapters which can be used with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and R3. The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Line Of Business (LOB) Adapter SDK.

Making Microsoft BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business Suite projects work with WCF SAP Adapter #2

This is in continuation to the previous post, where we discussed the differences in the XML...

Author: manasg Date: 01/17/2008

Making Microsoft BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business Suite projects work with WCF SAP Adapter

We have written a custom pipeline component (code and sample projects using this pipeline component...

Author: manasg Date: 01/14/2008

"When I Execute BAPIs, I don't get back any data". Help!

The two most common questions I get from customers using the SAPBinding: I execute a BAPI (via the...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 01/09/2008

Upload data from an Excel spreadsheet to Siebel using the Siebel Adapter

If you have data stored in a Excel file and need to upload that to Siebel, this blog illustrates how...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/09/2008

I see errors (or warnings) in the event log when I disable the Receive Location, for small Polling Intervals (especially 0)

The Symptoms! Occasionally, you may see errors/warnings in the event log when you disable a...

Author: tusharma Date: 01/04/2008

Using SSIS to read data from any table returned by an RFC/BAPI with SAP ADO

EDIT: In the Adapter Pack V2, this option is supported out-of-the-box (the EXEC syntax in the SAP...

Author: manasg Date: 12/31/2007

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...

Author: anilpr@microsoft.com Date: 12/29/2007

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...

Author: tusharma Date: 12/26/2007

Performance Comparison - Sending IDocs using SAP.NET Connector versus the SAPBinding

I'm not going to give you numbers - instead, I'll give you an easy way to generate the numbers in...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 12/22/2007

Why don’t I get exceptions when something unexpected happens in inbound scenarios in SAP Adapter?

You might have observed that in outbound scenarios, for example while calling an RFC, if something...

Author: manasg Date: 12/21/2007

The EnableSafeTyping Binding Property

In the November CTP of the Adapter Pack V1, a new binding property has been added to the SAPBinding...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 11/24/2007

Siebel adapter connection URI

Siebel adapter exposes siebel connection string as URI. Siebel URI syntax is given below:...

Author: anilpr@microsoft.com Date: 11/22/2007

32 and 64 bit versions of the BizTalk Adapter Pack

There are two separate installers for the AdapterPack - one for X86, and one for AMD64 (x64). A...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 11/14/2007

WCF Siebel adapter Vs Biztalk Siebel adapter

What are the differences between old Siebel adapter shipped with Biztalk releases and WCF based...

Author: anilpr@microsoft.com Date: 11/08/2007

Upcoming Siebel Adapter CTP release

The upcoming release for Adapter pack will have support for Siebel integration objects. This feature...

Author: anilpr@microsoft.com Date: 11/08/2007

Siebel adapter supports working with multi valued link in Siebel. Following operations are exposed...

Author: anilpr@microsoft.com Date: 11/08/2007

IdocProxy.SendIdoc(string idocData) call - doesnt this load the entire IDoc data in memory?

The SAP Adapter exposes a "generic" Send call which can be used to send any Idoc. In the Metadata...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 11/02/2007

SOA Conference ...

A few people from the BizTalk Adapter Pack and the WCF LOB Adapter SDK are going to be attending the...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/29/2007

Debugging SAP RFCs when using the SAP Adapter / SAP ADO.NET Provider

The RFC SDK supports the ABAP_DEBUG option, which allows you to break into the RFC ABAP code when...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/29/2007

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...

Author: mahadevanv Date: 10/29/2007

Positioning the BizTalk Adapter Pack

The adapters constituting the BizTalk Adapter Pack are fundamentally custom WCF binding elements....

Author: mahadevanv Date: 10/29/2007

Streaming in OracleDB adapter

OracleDB adapter supports streaming of data for both inbound (wrt adapter) and outbound messages...

Author: kdas Date: 10/26/2007

Downloading the SAP SNC Libraries

The SAP Adapter supports SAP SNC Authentication. For this, you need to have the SNC libraries...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/24/2007

Connection management in Siebel adapter

iebel adapter uses Siebel COM control to connect to Siebel backend. Since Siebel COM control objects...

Author: anilpr@microsoft.com Date: 10/23/2007

Getting LOB metadata from SAP, OracleDB and Siebel adapter using svcutil

The WCF based adapters that ship in the Biztalk Adapter Pack are WCF bindings. The svcutil tool can...

Author: Jayanthi S Date: 10/23/2007

OutOfMemory exceptions when using the SAP ADO Provider .. and how to work around them.

I ran the following two queries using the SAP ADO Provider SELECT * FROM Table1 (this table contains...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/21/2007

SAP DATS column containing the value "a.b.c.d" ??? (Problem when SAP ADO is used ..)

While going through the data stored in one of the tables in SAP, we saw a value "a.b.c.d" stored in...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/15/2007

EnableBizTalkLayeredChannel - What does this binding property do? (Part 1)

The EnableBizTalkLayeredChannel property affects both, the outbound (SendPort) and inbound...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/12/2007

Where did the BAPIs go?

If you have used the WCF SAP Adapter prior to Beta2, and then switched to the Beta2 version, one...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/11/2007

Migrating from using the Biztalk 2006/R2 adapters to the WCF based adapters

The Biztalk Adapter pack beta2 (mentioned in the post below) contains three adapters - one for...

Author: Jayanthi S Date: 10/09/2007

SAP - can all fields in a table store mixed-case characters?

While investigating a possible bug, I ran the following two queries using the SAP ADO Provider:...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/08/2007

Obtaining the RFC SDK Unicode Libraries from SAP Service Marketplace

You need your SAP Service Marketplace username and password. Visit https://service.sap.com/ Under the...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/07/2007

Sending an IDOC to SAP - easiest/fastest way?

Assume as part of your business process, you obtain an IDOC from somewhere, in a flat-file format,...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/05/2007

Receiving Idocs - getting the raw idoc data

Since the WCF based SAP Adapter is ... well, WCF based, all data flowing in and out of the adapter...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/05/2007

Sample - SQL Adapter built on the ASDK.

Attached is a sample SQL Adapter built on the ASDK. This adapter (being a sample), is rather simple:...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/05/2007

Selecting LRAW fields using the SAP ADO Provider

I ran the following query a couple of days back: SELECT LRAWFIELD FROM Z_TEST_TABLE Z_TEST_TABLE is...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/05/2007

Validating SAP Client Libraries ...

A number of customers have come back to us saying that error messages pop up when attempting to...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/05/2007

Date/Time handling in the Microsoft Biztalk.NET SAP Adapter (WCF).

SAP has the data types DATS and TIMS, which mean Date and Time respectively. DATS means YYYYMMDD,...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/05/2007

Order of parameters for RFC operations?

The Adapter queries the SAP system for metadata for RFCs, and spews out a wsdl. The parameters for...

Author: Mustansir - MSFT Date: 10/05/2007

Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Beta2 available

The Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Beta2 is available for public download and use. The BizTalk...

Author: sreeramn Date: 09/25/2007

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