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    • March 23, 2009 at 11:17 AM #21954
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        I am writing a BizTalk 2006 R2 application that has to periodically get data from a remote WCF service. I’m not sure how to go about setting the polling interval for a WCF adapter (receiving location) . Can someone please help?

        Thanks in advance.

      • March 23, 2009 at 12:17 PM #21958
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          As far as I know, it is not possible to “poll” a wcf service in a receive location.  I don’t think that the WCF adapter has this built into it. 

          I think you are going to have to build something that will trigger your orchestration that can then perform the polling of the wcf service.

        • March 23, 2009 at 2:33 PM #21960
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            You can use the Schedule Task Adapter, http://biztalkscheduledtask.codeplex.com/, to trigger an orchestration that does the actual polling.

            1. Download and install the adapter
            2. Create an orchestration that manage the process, makes the request to the wcf-service and take care of the response. Use the “Consume WCF service”-wizard to create the port types and messages. Do not use the generated orch, just its types from your own orch.
            3. Make the orchestration receive shape activate message be a “dummy”-xml
            4. Configure the schedule takt adapter to enter the dummy xml as a xml string.
            5. Voila!
            • March 26, 2009 at 10:47 AM #21996
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                Thanks for your recommendation. The scheduler adapter works great as I see the BizTalk application trying to get out to the WCF service. Are there any licensing issues with this adapter that you know of?

                • March 26, 2009 at 12:21 PM #22003
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                    The adapter has the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) which can be viewed at the Codeplex site. Basically it is free

                  • March 26, 2009 at 1:26 PM #22005
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                      That’s good.

                      Feel free to “Suggest as Answer” when you have test that it satisfies your need.

                      Kind Regards
                      Martin Bring

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