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WCF Service Connectors Deployment Readiness

WCF Service Connector applications contain a CA Plex .Net Runtime Configuration (.config) file that is used to configure runtime properties for the application.

The runtime properties for the application can be configured in the following:

• Code Library Deployment Wizard WCF Service Generator Generate and Build settings (via the configuration file referenced by the PlexConfigurationFile setting)
• Plex.ObRun.dll.config file generated into the WCF Service Connector Visual Studio project
• Plex.ObRun.dll.config file in the deployed WCF Service Connector application

This feature reduces the requirement to manually maintain this runtime configuration in the following ways:

• The Code Library associated with a WCF Service Connector is added as a dependency to the Visual Studio project created for the WCF Service Connector. Hence, the assembly containing the Plex-generated classes associated with the functions called by the WCF Service Connector gets copied into the target deployment directory. This indicates that as long as your WCF Service Connector is not trying to call functions outside of the Code Library boundary, you do not have to set the AssemblyList property in the Plex.ObRun.dll.config file to successfully execute your service operations.
• The default database configuration now uses a SQL Connection String to connect to SQL Server databases. You do not have to configure a UDL file on your local file system to connect to a database. The new default connection string is as follows:

  Server=localhost;Trusted_Connection=True;
  

  By default, the WCF Service Connector will try and connect to a locally running SQL Server instance using Windows authentication.

Note: You may still use the AssemblyList property and configure UDL files to configure function loading and database connections. For more information about advanced SQL Server Connection String syntax, see the documentation for the version of SQL Server to which you are trying to connect.