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re: What if you like SOAP and don't like web references? - Redux

Mark Coleman — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:45:00 GMT

I have put the steps that worked for me more formally on my blog at http://biztalk-dev.blogspot.com/2008/02/dynamic-soap-adapters.html

Cheers

re: What if you like SOAP and don't like web references? - Redux

Mark Coleman — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:19:00 GMT

Hi Jon,
Thanks for a great post. I finally managed to get a dynamic send to a SOAP web service working. For what it's worth here are my findings:

1) I created a simple web service and then generated a proxy class using wsdl.exe. I then added the proxy to its own project and built this as a strong named assembly, deployed to the GAC.

2) I didn't need to use a soap:// prefix on the URI. Simply setting the Microsoft.XLANGs.BaseTypes.TransportType property on the send port to "SOAP" did the job of directing the request to the SOAP adapter.

3) The request would fail if I did not populate the SOAP.TypeName property. This should be set to the Namespace.Class of the proxy.

4) The SOAP.AssemblyName property should be set to the Namespace.Class, Assembly, Version, Culture, PublicKeyToken. e.g.
msgSendRequest(SOAP.AssemblyName) = "BtsTest.CalcWebServiceProxy.CalcService,CalcWebServiceProxy, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b713f1108bae3109";

5) The Operation on the dynamic Send Port needs to use the same name as the WebMethod being called.

6) The method signature of the WebMethod should be public XmlNode MyMethod(XmlNode Message)

Hope this helps.

re: What if you like SOAP and don't like web references? - Redux

Scott — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:49:00 GMT

If you step through your code you will see that the solution does indeed call the underlying web service.

I think the NullReferenceException happens becasue the ServiceProxy thinks the web service call is one way; therefore, it always returns null.

The only hurdle to getting this working is to somehow get the ServiceProxy to make the call request response instead of one way.

I have no clue how to do that - I checked and tried all kinds of things and always get the same result.

re: What if you like SOAP and don't like web references? - Redux

Vadim — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:28:00 GMT

I have the same problem like Iztok Koban:

I am trying out your solution and got a 'NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object' because the methode SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse in the ServiceProxy returns a one object array which is null. Any idea ?

re: New MSDN article on BizTalk and IBM technologies

Jon Fancey — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:33:00 GMT

oops - thanks, link fixed.

re: New MSDN article on BizTalk and IBM technologies

Clemens — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:24:00 GMT

I think link is wrong it points to a MSDN subsciber site

re: What if you like SOAP and don't like web references? - Redux

Doug — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:07:00 GMT

have you tried the override BTS.OutboundTransportType = "SOAP"? this is the type override according to the BTS help.
I haven't got either to work, but that may be unrelated. Thanks for your work.
Doug

re: What if you like SOAP and don't like web references? - Redux

Ravikanth — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:46:00 GMT

First of all I would like to thank Jon Fancey for the wonderful work that he has done. I have applied your idea in the send pipeline to change the scheme back to http:// and it works. Once again thank you Jon.

re: What if you like SOAP and don't like web references? - Redux

Michael — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:34:00 GMT

Does this work with XML-RPC?

re: What if you like SOAP and don't like web references? - Redux

Amit Rohilla — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:35:00 GMT

Is this type of Dynamic Routing possible with BizTalk R2 with WCF adapters
I am getting the following error when I am usiing WCF-WSHttp instead of SOAP
"
The Messaging Engine could not send the message to the dynamic send port. The outbound transport could not be resolved because a matching transport protocol prefix could not be derived from the URL "WCF-WSHttp://localhost:1343/DynamicWCFservice.WCF/Service.svc"

re: What if you like SOAP and don't like web references? - Redux

Iztok Koban — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:34:00 GMT

Hello,

I am trying out your solution and got a 'NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object' because the methode SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse in the ServiceProxy returns a one object array which is null. Any idea ?

Thanks for your support!

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re: What a week

Marjan Kalantar — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:07:00 GMT

Hi Jon. It was a pleasure to meet and have all of our valued MVPs on campus. I’m really happy to know that you found the summit beneficial & enjoyed it as much as we did. Looking forward to seeing you again at future events! Marjan