1. Upgrading from BDC to BCS
Brett Lonsdale

2. About Me Brett Lonsdale, MCTS, MCSD, MCT
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4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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)

12. External Lists (New)

13. Business Data Web Parts (Improved)

14. External Data Column

15. Search

16. User Profile Import

17. Client Capabilities (All New)
SharePoint Workspace (New Client)
Outlook (Office Type)
Office Business Parts (OBPs)
List of Items
Single Item
Word (QuickParts)
Access (New)

18. SharePoint Workspace

19. Outlook 2010

20. Office Quick Parts

21. InfoPath

22. 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

23. 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

24. SharePoint Designer (New)

25. Visual Studio 2010 Pro (New)

26. 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

27. Custom

28. Upgrading from BDC to BCS
Application Definition File
Application Definition File -> .NET Assembly
Create External Lists
Take Advantage of new Client tools/Runtime

29. 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

31. @LightningTools @BrettLonsdale