Last week we decided to do an upgrade of EDRA 1.0 to EDRA 1.1 on our development machines. According to Microsoft, version 1.1 is the final version of EDRA. Microsoft indicates that in the beginning of next year they will start a similar project to take on the latest distributed design challenges using Microsoft’s BizTalk and "Indigo" technologies.

After making the change described my previous posting in the Microsoft EDRA 1.1 code, we compiled the EDRA 1.1 code using our own public key. After that we compiled our ‘EDRA extensions’ against the new EDRA 1.1 assemblies. Only one code change was needed to make all our code compile (Microsoft decided to change the name of one of the Handler Interfaces). Further the following changes were needed to make our test services work:

·         Remove ‘ra’ namespace prefix in ServiceReferenceArchitecture.config.

·         Move Pipeline configuration from ServiceReferenceArchitecture.config to the new ‘TemplateServices.config’ file.

·         Add two new configuration sections to specify the location of the ServiceReferenceArchitecture.config and the TemplateServices.config file.

Based on the results of our NUnit test, everything worked as expected (after the changes described above).

To make absolutely sure services implemented using EDRA 1.1 behave the same as services implemented using EDRA 1.0 we also did some manual testing against our test services. After that we had enough confidence to advice a project that is using EDRA 1.0 at this moment to do the upgrade to EDRA 1.1.

All the project has to do now is: install the new EDRA 1.1 assemblies; install the new version of our ‘EDRA extensions’; make the necessary changes in the configuration files; start system testing!