To use VS2005 for development....?

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Am hoping experience can shed some light on this problem.

I want to use VS2005 for development of a web based application that will pull and push data data from tables within SAP.

After some reading a get that VS2005 doesn't support the .NET connector.

What i am wondering are what options are available to me if i still want to use VS2005. I've read about web services but dont really know understand how the connection is being made?

Also about creating a proxy in VS2003 and the using it within my VS2005 project but to be honest its a bit over my head.

Is this possible could you provide any tutorials, links feedback etc...?

Would be greatly appreciated....

Many Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi DJ,

The way I've gone about connecting to VS.net 2005 is by creating the web service and then adding the subsequently created WSDL as a web reference.

I found the following link very helpful (specifically Building Web Services with ABAP, Part I😞

[url]https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/webservices?rid=/webcontent/uuid/83b7ec4d-0a01-0010-03a9-e5a3b42522b8[url]

Cal

[Former Member]

"Also about creating a proxy in VS2003 and the using it within my VS2005 project but to be honest its a bit over my head"... Actually that's what I do.

I create a DLL or a web services which contains all I need under VS2003. And I create a VS2005 project and I add the previous DLL or Web services as a refereces...

An other solution is to buy and use ERPConnect. Erp connect is a very good toolbox to Link .net to SAP (as the SAP .net connector).... but which supports VS 2005, and the author is very good

[Former Member]

Hi,

you will find a whitepaper of using Web Services between Visual Studio and SAP at http://www.microsoft.com/isv/sap/technology/interop/dotnet.aspx, here we have published one paper describing stateful and stateless communication between Microsoft and SAP.

The approach with the proxies in VS 2003 means you use VS 2003 and the .NET Connector for building the DLLs which connect to SAP and then you include this DLLs as references in your VS 2005 roject, the runtime of the .NET Connector works in VS 2005.

Another approach is using the new WCF LOB Adapter from Microsoft, you will find a blog about this at http://blogs.msdn.com/saptech/archive/2008/06/03/the-windows-communication-foundation-line-of-busine..., this adapter works in VS 2005 and does not require BizTalk.

The other approach is using the Enterprise Service Explorer from SAP, you will find some information here in the forum.

Thanks,

Juergen

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