No valid adapters installed on the machine.

Now I am working on a project which needs to use WCF-SQL adapter so that the BizTalk Server 2010 application can  communicate with SQL 2008 .

So the first thing was to create required tables and stored procedures, adding relationship – done with no problem.

Now it was time to use “Add Adapter Metadata” and this is where I got error                                                                                   “No valid adapters installed on the machine.”

Whoa!!!! Now what? I checked the machine , all was configured properly .

Had both of them installed:

1.       WCF LOB Adapter SDK

2.       WCF-SQL adapter

So what’s the problem? The problem lies in the “machine.config” file , which can be located at :

         “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config"

If you go through the config file , you won’t find entries for SQL :

<bindingElementExtensions>

<add name="webMessageEncoding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.WebMessageEncodingElement, System.ServiceModel.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>

<add name="context" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ContextBindingElementExtensionElement, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>

<add name="byteStreamMessageEncoding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ByteStreamMessageEncodingElement, System.ServiceModel.Channels, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>

<add name="discoveryClient" type="System.ServiceModel.Discovery.Configuration.DiscoveryClientElement, System.ServiceModel.Discovery, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>

</bindingElementExtensions>

<bindingExtensions>

<add name="wsHttpContextBinding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.WSHttpContextBindingCollectionElement, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>

<add name="netTcpContextBinding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.NetTcpContextBindingCollectionElement, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>

<add name="webHttpBinding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.WebHttpBindingCollectionElement, System.ServiceModel.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>

<add name="basicHttpContextBinding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.BasicHttpContextBindingCollectionElement, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>

</bindingExtensions>

</extensions>

<client>

<metadata>

<policyImporters>

<extension type="System.ServiceModel.Channels.ContextBindingElementImporter, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, processorArchitecture=MSIL"/>

</policyImporters>

<wsdlImporters>

<extension type="System.ServiceModel.Channels.ContextBindingElementImporter, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, processorArchitecture=MSIL"/>

</wsdlImporters>

</metadata>

</client> 

So there was no entry made in it, I went ahead and added entries for SQL(marked in red):

<behaviorExtensions>

<add name="persistenceProvider" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.PersistenceProviderElement, System.WorkflowServices, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>

.

                                .

                                .

<add name="sqlAdapterInboundTransactionBehavior" type="Microsoft.Adapters.Sql.SqlAdapterInboundTransactionBehavior, Microsoft.Adapters.Sql, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />

</behaviorExtensions>

<bindingElementExtensions>

<add name="webMessageEncoding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.WebMessageEncodingElement, System.ServiceModel.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>

<add name="sqlAdapter" type="Microsoft.Adapters.Sql.SqlAdapterBindingElementExtensionElement, Microsoft.Adapters.Sql, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />

</bindingElementExtensions>

<bindingExtensions>

<add name="wsHttpContextBinding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.WSHttpContextBindingCollectionElement, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>

<add name="sqlBinding" type="Microsoft.Adapters.Sql.SqlAdapterBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.Adapters.Sql, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />

</bindingExtensions>

</extensions>

<client>

   <endpoint binding="sqlBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" name="mssql" />

<metadata>

<policyImporters>

<extension type="System.ServiceModel.Channels.ContextBindingElementImporter, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, processorArchitecture=MSIL"/>

</policyImporters>

<wsdlImporters>

<extension type="System.ServiceModel.Channels.ContextBindingElementImporter, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, processorArchitecture=MSIL"/>

</wsdlImporters>

</metadata>

</client>

Now the question is where did I found this ? It was here (below):

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config

Will keep on posting as an when I find something to share!!!!!!!!!!!!