Ops Adapter Implementation Details

You may find it useful to understand the following aspects of the Ops adapter when modifying the adapter or configuring it programmatically.

Note

The Ops Adapter is built using the Adapter Framework. For information about building adapters with the framework, see Developing Custom Adapters.

Batch Processing

The adapter processes one message at a time so that each message is processed separately, and rollback operations are done on only one order at a time. Although the adapter processes one message at a time, it does so using batching with a batch size of one. This makes it easier to modify the adapter to handle messages in batches.

Transaction Handling

The adapter uses the transaction facilities provided by the Microsoft .NET FrameworkSystem.Transactions facilities. The adapter creates a new CommittableTransaction and uses it with a TransactionScope. The adapter calls the Initialize and Execute methods within the context of this transaction. Code in the called assembly can participate in the transaction by using Transaction.Current static method to get the transaction context. The sample error handler does not make use of this facility. For more information about System.Transactions, see "System.Transactions Namespace" in the .NET Framework Class Library version.

Handling Data Other Than Error Reports

In the solution, the adapter handles error report messages from the new error reporting feature. However, because the Execute method takes a byte array as its only argument, there is nothing that specifically limits what can be passed to the Execute method.

Using the Adapter When Creating Ports Programmatically

You can specify the adapter when creating ports from code. The following table shows the custom property names and how they correspond to the display names.

Send Custom Property Name	Display Name
DotNetAssemblyStrongName	DotNetAssemblyStrongName
DotNetClassName	DotNetClassName
InitializationData	InitializationData
TransportLocationUri	Not applicable.

All of the properties are string values. You construct the value of the TransportLocationUri property from the assembly name and the class name. The URI has the value OPS://<DotNetAssemblyStrongName>/<DotNetClassName> where the placeholders are replaced by the values of the corresponding custom property.

For information about creating ports from code, see How to Create MSMQ Receive Locations and Send Ports from Code.

See Also

The Ops Adapter