on Dec 11, 2008 12:00 AM, last modified by SAP provides a number of back-end connectivity solutions that enable .NET developers to access SAP back-end systems and services. For more information, check out the following sections:
SAP ES Explorer for .NET
SAP Enterprise Services Explorer tool for Microsoft .NET (SAP ES Explorer for .NET) is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 that helps to leverage SAP SOA by enabling .NET developers to discover SAP enterprise services and consume them in their applications, as well as publish their own custom services in the SAP Services Registry. It is a design-time tool that succeeds the SAP connector for Microsoft .NET (NCo) as the connectivity tool between SAP back-end systems and the Microsoft. NET platform.
Susanne Rothaug announces the availability of the tool in her blog The SAP Enterprise Services Explorer for Microsoft .NET: New interoperability offering for the Services Registry.
Anne Tarnoruder provides an overview of the tool's features and capabilities in her article Introducing SAP Enterprise Services Explorer for Microsoft .NET.
Software Downloads
Download and install.
Installation Verification tool of ES Explorer for .NET
Install and use this tool to verify that the installation of ES Explorer for .NET was completed successfully.
Documentation
The documentation of ES Explorer is automatically available in the Microsoft Visual Studio local help after installation. You can optionally download and locally install the standalone HTML version.
Supporting Documentation
Provides detailed instructions for installing and configuring ES Explorer for .NET.
SAP Notes
Central Note for ES Explorer for .NET #1259258
SAP Connector for .NET
The SAP connector for Microsoft .NET is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 that enables design-time and runtime connectivity between the Microsoft .NET platform and SAP back-end systems based on SAP Remote Function Calls (RFC)
Software Downloads
SAP .NET Connector 2.0 (Link to the Service Market Place, registration is required)
Additional Resources
Using SAP Connector for MS .NET (NCO) in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Learn a workaround that enables easy design-time connectivity to SAP back-end systems in Visual Studio 2005 by creating the connector proxies in Visual Studio 2003 and porting them to Visual Studio 2005.
Creating a .NET Client for a SAP Java Web Service
Learn how to build .NET clients for SAP applications using web services and various security options.
Additional Solutions
Consuming SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Services in a Microsoft Office InfoPath Form
To demonstrate interoperability features of SAP Enterprise SOA in its integration with Microsoft Office tools, Anne Tarnoruder of SAP NetWeaver Product Management, and Dudu Benabou of Microsoft Consulting Services introduce a sample InfoPath 2007 form template that consumes SAP enterprise services to retrieve information from back-end systems. For better understanding of each implementation step in the article, you can download and examine the accompanying code.
Consuming Enterprise Services in Microsoft .NET 3.0
Another excellent walkthrough from Boris Mueller shows the process of consuming enterprise services using Microsoft .NET 3.0 and Visual Studio 2005. From finding enterprise services on the ES Workplace (SDN login required) to the source code generated by a Visual Studio 2005 project, this thorough guide shows just how flexible enterprise services can be.