Consuming WCF Services in a BizTalk orchestration

With BizTalk 2010, you can use the Consume WCF Service Wizard, which comes out of the box and enables you to consume web services from BizTalk. These days there might be many web services in your enterprise, which you may need to consume in your process or web services outside your enterprise. To call a web service, you will need a Web Services Description Language (WSDfile of the service. This file provides a machine-readable description of how the service can be called, what parameters it expects, and what data structures it returns. With the Consume WCF Service Wizard, this file can be imported and BizTalk will turn it into a schema that can be read in the same way as a standard XSD, with each ...

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