SAP Enterprise Service Explorer

[Former Member]

To me it seems that the SAP ES Explorer is the current textbook tool to connect .net in Visual Studio 2008 with SAP backend.

Can I use the tool only with an ESR on SAP side established, or also having just one WebAS ABAP. Since I have to configure the ESR I have not found a way to use it just with a plain WebAS ABAP.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Hork,

for using the ES Explorer you need the ESR. Nevertheless you can also consume the Web Services from WebAS directly in Visual Studio 2008, we published a paper where we describe how to do this on http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/2/8/a287c141-b72e-4e9e-aac5-826e3f0d6d76/StatefulNetWeaverC... where we describe how to do it with Visual Studio 2005, the same approach works in Visual Studio 2008.

Regards,

Juergen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Jurgen,

Your whitepaper does not apply or work in newer versions of SAP ECC. WSADIN, for example, is an obsolete t-code in recent releases.

Do you have an updated version of your whitepaper using the new SOAMANAGER t-code? Can you provide an example using VB 2005 / 2008 as the web services consumer (instead of C#) also?

[Former Member]

The issue has been solved. The problem was that prior SPS14 it was possible to call the WSDL URL, while SPS 14>= required to directly call the endpoint.

Doing so serves the issue

[Former Member]

Solution not working anymore in SPS 14 or later

[Former Member]

Can you give some more details on the SOAP errors you get?

[Former Member]

Yes very much, I do also have problems in the new versions 7.0 SPS 14 ("SOAMANGER" versions) and later failing with SOAP errors.

[Former Member]

Very nice, thx.