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When writing WCF services, most of us find ourselves writing quick test applications. To give you more time to do what a developer should be doing (adding business value to the project) the Visual Studio team added a WCF test client that can help you reach goals faster. This is not a very difficult application...
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WCF, as you probably know, can be a hugely flexible, but equally complicated beast. The domain knowledge stretches from the .NET stack to identity management, encryption and transport. “Out of the box”, it’s pretty straight forward, but the demos and examples often presented by Microsoft...
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Using the sequential workflow built in the previous post , we will continue the correlation example using Windows Workflow 4.0. The following illustrates the current workflow so far: The concept is the workflow instance will now wait until either an OrderApproval for the same order is received or a specified...
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The following is an example of performing correlation using Windows Workflow 4.0. First create a new project based on the WCF Workflow Service Application template: Because I am interested in tracking the events in AppFabric during development, I will change the projects Web properties to host the service...
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I had a nice setup in my BizTalk environment. I had 4 receive locations polling for data (in the same table) and it all boiled down to execute a stored procedure with different parameters. I used the WCF adapter with SQL bindings for that. For some obscure reason, I would get timeouts in the eventlog...
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There are some known nasty issues that my colleagues discovered while using the IBM WMQ WCF Transport channel. These where discovered with client version 7.0.1.3. The service will hit the faulted state and will not pick up further messages when: - A wrong, empty or no soap action is in the message -...
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Some updates to my original post since Microsoft Host Integration Server 2010 is released. My comparison now looks like this: IBM HIS2009 HIS2010 Fire-and-forget (oneway) client + + + Fire-and-forget (oneway) service + + + Request-reply client + - + Request-reply service + - + Local transactions + -...
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BizTalk integration with SharePoint is … interesting. Using the Add Generated Items… Consume WCF service might result in a proxy that will not build due to a bad reference. The proxy file Lists_schemas_microsoft_com_sharepoint_soap.xsd contains the bad reference. The reference in particular is...
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Just some notes on connecting BizTalk to SharePoint’s /_vti_bin/lists.asmx">http://<site>/_vti_bin/lists.asmx webservice. After using Add Generated Items –> Consume WCF Service to create the proxy and binding you might find that when calling the service a transport level...
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Working with this transport channel now for a while, and discovered some interesting things which I’d like to share. With the transport channel I mean the “IBM.XMS.WCF.SoapJmsIbmTransportChannel” which you can find in the IBM.XMS.WCF assembly after installing WMQ 7 server or client...
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Updated the post again: http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/gerben/archive/2010/02/25/ibm-websphere-mq-wcf-channels.aspx . Now a clearer overview with a feature comparison.
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Lately I hear more and more people saying that BizTalk server has become obsolete. This because of the developments in the WCF4, WF4 and AppFabric space. While there is some truth in there, BizTalk server offers the following things today that makes it useful for several scenarios that are not in WCF4...
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This topic is covered in multiple posts Creating simplest solution with default endpoints Manually adding and configuring the endpoints (you're reading it right now) More to come... The previous post was the most simple example of creating a WCF service and calling it from a client application. In...
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This topic is covered in multiple posts Creating simplest solution with default endpoints (you're reading it right now) Manually adding and configuring the endpoints More to come... It’s been a long, long time since I wrote the original WCF Simple Example post. It was even before Visual Studio...
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Last Tuesday, may 18th 2010, I gave a presentation on Microsoft’s AppFabric. I explained that there are actually two themes of it; Windows Server AppFabric and Windows Azure AppFabric. They both have their own products. Windows Server AppFabric Services and Workflow Management This is sometimes called...