Hi,
the link greg gave you got me started with adapter development. I was in the same situation, didn’t even know where to start. Once you check out the sample of the TcpAdapter that Greg’s link provides, you’ll get a better understand.
There’s nothing extraordinary about the adapters. The receive adapter portion just makes calls to biztalk api’s in order to submit message into biztalk. The transmit adapter is run by the biztalk server, once it receive a message it places the Message(workitem) on a queue and they get procesed by the threadpool.
The Wizard will create all the necessary code for you. All you have to do is edit around 2-3 methods.
When you are ready to test the adapter make sure you GAC it or you will get no where. The biztalk will complain about not being able to find the assembly.
If you have any questions I’ll be happy to answer
Gino