What is the future for the SAP Connector for .NET (NCO)?

[former_member186439]

After three years, the design-time portion of the SAP Connector for .NET is still not compatible with Visual Studio 2005 and now Visual Studio 2008 is available. Is this product on its way out? Should we all plan on using NetWeaver web services instead?

[Former Member]

Hi Steven,

SAP has no plans to release a new version of the SAP Connector for Microsoft .NET. You have a couple of choices:

- Using Web Services if your SAP system is running on WebAS 6.40 or higher 9it's not recommended using the Web Services available with WebAS 6.20)

- Using the connector and create the proxies in VS 2003, you can then use this proxies in VS 2005/2008

- Use BizTalk or XI to expose the functionality as Web Service

- Use a 3rd party adapter like ERP Link or Sitrion iQL Studio

- Use the WCF LOB Adapter from Microsoft

- User the NetWeaver RFC SDK and develop you solution using this SDK

Hope this helps,

- Juergen