Prequisities for the WCF LOB Adapter SDK tutorials

This section provides details about the concepts you should be familiar with to get the most out of the tutorials, as well as the software required to complete them.

What to Install

To start the tutorials, you must have the following software installed on your computer.

  • Visual Studio

  • Internet Information Services (IIS)

  • .NET Framework

  • WCF LOB Adapter SDK (available with your BizTalk Server installation files, and named ASDK_x64 and ASDK_x86)

    To complete Tutorial 3, you must have the following software installed on your computer.

  • Microsoft SharePoint

  • Microsoft SharePoint SDK

Caution

Do not perform these tutorials in your production environment.

The completed Echo Adapter is included with your BizTalk installation files at \BizTalk Server\ASDK_x86\Program Files\WCF LOB Adapter SDK\Documents\Samples or \BizTalk Server\ASDK_x64\Program Files\WCF LOB Adapter SDK\Documents\Samples.

Prerequisites

The tutorials assume that you are familiar with the following:

  • Object-oriented software design and development

  • Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), specifically, channel model programming and service model programming

  • XSD, XML, WSDL, and the relationship between Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and an API

  • C# programming language

  • .NET Framework

    Before starting the tutorials, it will be helpful if you have reviewed the conceptual topics of this SDK, and have a general understanding of channels in WCF, including the types within the T:Microsoft.ServiceModel.Channels and T:Microsoft.ServiceModel.Channels.Common namespaces. For more information about channels, see the Channel Model Overview.

See Also

Tutorials to learn the WCF LOB Adapter SDK