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Upgrading from BDC to BCS
Brett Lonsdale
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About Me Brett Lonsdale, MCTS, MCSD, MCT
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Agenda Business Connectivity Services Introduction What is BCS?
How does it Help? The Services Client Services Server Services Putting BCS into Use SharePoint Foundations SharePoint Server
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Business Connectivity Services Introduction What is BCS?
How does it Help? The Services Client Services Server Services Putting BCS into use SharePoint Foundations SharePoint Server
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External Bus field Type
What is BCS? SPD VS Office 2010 SharePoint Workspace InfoPath Word Outlook SharePoint Server External Lists Enterprise Search External Bus field Type Web Parts User Profiles BDC Client Runtime BDC Cache Offline Operations ECT BDC Runtime Security Solution Packaging Out of the Box UI CRM SAP Siebel LOB
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What’s new? Entities become External Content Types
Now more than just a schema ECT’s describe behavior WCF and .NET Assembly Connectors External Lists Client Runtime Read/Write Access consumes BCS Tools
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Terminology External Content Type – Table/View etc
Finder Method – Returns multiple columns/rows Specific Finder – Displays a row IDEnumerator – Used by the Enterprise Search to enumerate the rows Action – URL and Parameters Association – Join (Relationship)
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Weekly Issue Tracking Meeting Extranet Collaboration Site
Problems solved by BCS Islands of data into 1 application Finance Human Resources IT Weekly Issue Tracking Meeting Extranet Collaboration Site
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Business Connectivity Services Introduction What is BCS?
How does it Help? The Services Client Services Server Services Putting BCS into use SharePoint Foundations SharePoint Server
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Server Services External Lists (New)
Backend data presented in a SharePoint style list InfoPath and Web Forms for Updating | Inserting data Business Data Web Parts (Improved) Now Ajaxian Really only here for backwards compatibility or read only scenarios External Data Column (Some Client Improvements) Use LOB data in Lists & Libraries Search User Profile Import (Improved)
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External Lists (New)
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Business Data Web Parts (Improved)
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External Data Column
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Search
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User Profile Import
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Client Capabilities (All New)
SharePoint Workspace (New Client) Outlook (Office Type) Office Business Parts (OBPs) List of Items Single Item Word (QuickParts) Access (New)
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SharePoint Workspace
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Outlook 2010
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Office Quick Parts
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InfoPath
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Business Connectivity Services Introduction What is BCS?
How does it Help? The Services Client Services Server Services Putting BCS into use SharePoint Foundations SharePoint Server
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Tools SharePoint Designer Visual Studio No code solution
Create External Content Types Configure the connection to the Datasource Define Methods Simple Associations Visual Studio Code solution Mashups of Datasources Complex Associations Output a .NET Assembly
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SharePoint Designer (New)
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Visual Studio 2010 Pro (New)
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Object Model (Improved)
Namespaces Microsoft.BusinessData.Infrastructure; Microsoft.BusinessData.MetadataModel; Microsoft.BusinessData.MetadataModel.Collections; Microsoft.BusinessData.Runtime; iEntity = External Content Type iMetaDataCatalog = Catalog of ECT’s
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Custom
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Upgrading from BDC to BCS
Application Definition File Application Definition File -> .NET Assembly Create External Lists Take Advantage of new Client tools/Runtime
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Business Connectivity Services Introduction What is BCS?
How does it Help? The Services Client Services Server Services Putting BCS into use SharePoint Foundations SharePoint Server
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