Limitations

Note: The Microsoft UDDI SDK is not supported by or included in Microsoft Windows versions after Microsoft Windows Server 7. The Microsoft UDDI V3 SDK is included with Microsoft BizTalk Server. For more information about the Microsoft UDDI V3 SDK, see Microsoft BizTalk Server documentation

This topic discusses the features of the Microsoft UDDI SDK that are not available to COM developers.

Structures

The structures that are defined in the UDDI SDK cannot be used by COM developers. COM developers can work around this limitation by using methods on classes that contain collections of these structures.

The following list contains the structures that are defined in the UDDI SDK:

• AddressLine

• Description

• DiscoveryUrl

• Email

• Phone

To work around the structures in the UDDI SDK

1. Create or retrieve an instance of a class that contains a collection of structures. For this example, we will create an instance of the Contact class.

   Dim myContact As New Contact
   

2. Call the Add method on the collection of structures that takes a string. For this example, call the Add method of the DescriptionCollection object (which maps to the Add_4 method in COM).

   Dim myContact As New Contact
   myContact.Descriptions.Add_4 "This is a description of the contact."
   

Utility Classes

Some of the classes defined in the UDDI SDK are not available to COM developers. While these classes are useful to .NET Framework developers, these are utility classes that are not essential for using the UDDI SDK to access a UDDI server.

The following list contains the classes cannot be accessed by COM developers:

• UddiSiteDiscovery

• CommonCanonical

• CommonExtended

• FindQualifier

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