1. SharePoint 2010: BCS http://microsoftsharepointandbeyond.blogspot.co m Business Connectivity Services

2. What’s new in Business Connectivity Services Frank Cleynen ECM Consultant Getronics

3. Agenda Customer feedback What is BCS? Demo External data in SharePoint

4. Feedback Read/Write Read is nice... but writing would be even nicer Tooling support We need an easier way to create, debug and maintain application definition XML files I wish it was all part of the system Why not work offline as well ?

5. Microsoft SharePoint 2010

6. Enabling no-code collaborative solutions that balance self-service control

7. Investment Areas

8. Challenges with back end data

9. Business Connectivity Services

10. Architecture

11. External Content Types (ECT) = the BCS building block Superset of entity capabilities; describes: - Structure of the external system - How this data behaves in SharePoint and Office Manage and reuse from a central location Added to the BCS through: - SPD 2010 - VS 2010 - Part of a model

12. External Content Types (ECT) BCS-enabled solutions rely on ECTs to integrate external data into SharePoint and the Office client applications Can be reused in - External list- Word - Search- InfoPath - Outlook- Access - SharePoint Workspace- MS Office(code)

13. BCS Overview

14. DEMO

15. External lists Expose external data as a native SharePoint list - Full CRUD capability - Familiar UI and navigation - Sort, filter, group - SPList OM access - Forms: OOTB or upsize with InfoPath - Work offline

16. External vs. Regular list Key differences: - No default fields: title, created (by), modified (by) - List items don’t have unique int32 ID - No events - Item level security on external source - Read/Write depends on external source - Data stored in external system

17. External vs. Regular list Not supported - RSS - Edit in datasheet/grid view - Export to Excel - REST interface - No workflows can be associated

18. Working offline Connect to Outlook as - Contacts - Tasks - Calendar - Posts Download to SharePoint Workspace

19. Visual Studio integration New Project template: Business Data Connectivity Model Create reusable BCS components Visual designers Creates ECT of type ‘.NET assembly’ Upsize IT solutions created in SPD 2010

20. Solution types

21. Lifecycle Management Part of WSP-based SharePoint application packaging, deployment and administration

22. What’s in the box

23. Recap CRUD Complete integration Easy creation, development and maintenance

24. Q&A http://microsoftsharepointandbeyond.blogspot.co m

25. Thanks and good evening!!