I was digging into this new WCF-Adapters-SDK<\/EM><\/STRONG> several weeks ago, and now, I am very interested in it because it could be a really powerful development platform for publishing Microsoft Dynamics<\/I><\/B> products data (AX<\/B>, NAV<\/B> and CRM<\/B>) to external applications or just for remote \u2018Presentation Application Layers<\/I>\u2019.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>\n <\/SPAN>WCF LOB (Line of Business Applications) Adapters<\/I><\/B> are a really cool thing (at least for me ;-)). Overall, it is a handful development piece for making available ERP\/CRM data (LOB applications) to external consumers\/applications. But why it is so powerful???, let me explain it\u2026<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>\n The point is that ERP\/CRM applications usually have tons of metadata and that metadata changes quite frequently. I mean, sometimes you need to add fields\/columns to CRM\/ERP entities. Then, if you were publishing those entities just with plain XML-Web-services<\/I> (WS-Basic profile<\/I> like ASMX) or plain WCF-Services<\/I>, you’d have to change the service interface, change the service implementation, re-compile it, and re-deploy it\u2026 Not a big deal\u2026<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>\n The great thing about WCF LOB Adapters<\/I><\/B> is that it provides a mechanism where you can query LOB metadata & data (ERP\/CRM) in a dynamic way<\/B>, so even though when LOB metadata changes, your WCF-Service wouldn’t have to change its interfaces and there’s no need to re-compile it. This is great!!<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>\n WCF LOB Adapters<\/SPAN><\/I><\/B> are, of course, based on WCF<\/B> (Windows Communication Foundation<\/I><\/B>), but it is also based on a new WCF LOB Adapters SDK<\/I><\/B> which is still in BETA phase.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>\n I am aware that there’s gonna be a SAP, Siebel and Oracle WCF-LOB-Adapter<\/I>, so what I am going to investigate is if there’s going to be WCF-Adapters<\/I><\/B> for DYNAMICS<\/I><\/B> products (CRM<\/B>, NAV<\/B> and AX<\/B>) or maybe it\u2019s going to be already implemented in next Dynamics product versions\u2026<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>\n In any case, it seems very interesting to know how to build custom WCF-Adapters<\/B> over <\/SPAN>DYNAMICS<\/B> CRM<\/B>, NAV<\/B> and AX<\/B> (it’s a very different case for each Dynamics product…).<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>\n