1. What’s New? – BCS 2013 Brett Lonsdale

2.  Co-founder of Lightning Tools  One of the hosts on the SharePoint Pod Show  Co-organizer of SharePoint Saturday UK  Author of SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services  Author of SharePoint 2007 Developers Guide to the Business Data Catalog  Contributing author of many other books inc Admin Companions…  Twitter: @brettlonsdale

3. The next hour… Intro to BCS High level view of BCS Getting up to speed History Lesson What’s new? OData Alerts and Events External List improvements Deployed as an App

4. High Level View  External Data in SharePoint  External Data in the Client  Authentication Options  Secure Store  Windows Authentication  Revert To Self  Username & Password  Multiple Connectors  SQL  WCF .NET Assembly  OData

5. Getting up to Speed  External Lists  Business Data Web Parts  Search  Business Data Column  User Profile Import  External Content Types  Tooling

6. History Lesson 2003 - Data View Web Part/Custom No BDC/BCS 2007 Business Data Catalog Read Only No Tooling 2010 Business Connectivity Services SPD Tooling VS Tooling External List Foundations 2013 Business Connectivity Services OData Excel Apps Alerts & Events

7. What’s new?

8. Excel integration  One way sync with Excel  Used to have to code with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)

9. Demo Syncing an External List with Microsoft Excel 2013

10. Connecting to External Data  SharePoint Designer .NET Assembly  SQL Server  WCF Service  Visual Studio 2012  Anything  OData (New)

11. OData  Open Data Protocol (Microsoft)  Can use without Microsoft technology  SQL Azure (Supports OData)  Plug Ins for Excel  MySQL, PHP, (OData tools)  GData (Google Equivalent)

12. CRUD  (Create Read Update Delete)  Querying  Path/Products(1)  Path/Products?filter=name eq ‘value’  Path/Products?$Select  Path/Products?$Orderby  Path/Products?$top10  Path/Products(1)?$Expand=Orders  Metadata  Path/Products?$metadata

13. OData  Open Data Protocol  Exchange Data Over the Web  Return Data  HTTP  JSON  ATOMPUB (ATOM Publishing Protocol)  Service End Point  Get Patch Post Delete

14. OData

15. OData & BCS Method FinderGethttp://server.crm.svc/clients SpecificFinderGethttp://server.crm.svc/clientshttp://server.crm.svc/clients(“LT”) CreatorPosthttp://server.crm.svc/clients UpdaterPuthttp://server.crm.svc/clientshttp://server.crm.svc/clients(“LT”) DeleterDeletehttp://server.crm.svc/clientshttp://server.crm.svc/clients(“LT”) AssociationGethttp://server.crm.svc/clientshttp://server.crm.svc/clients(“LT”)/country

16. Deploy ECT’s as an App  No longer need to be Farm Solutions  Easier deployment  Better development environment

17. Demo Creating and deploying an ECT as an App using OData

18. Alerts and Events  External List Alerts  Enabled as a Feature  External List Event Receivers  Custom Code  Entity Event Receivers  Custom Code

19. Demo Enabling Alerts on an External List

20. External List Event Receivers  Item Added  Item Adding  Item is Updated  Item is Updating  ….

21. Attach Event Receiver to External List

22. Remote External Event Receiver Data Source  Notification of a change in the underlying data source SharePoint Notification System http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj164024.aspx

23. Remote External Event Receiver  BDC Model with EventSubscriber EventUnSubscriber  Determine Underlying Changes (Service)  Receive & Record Subscriptions  SubscriptionID  Delivery Address  Event Type  Entity Name  Post Notifications to REST

24. The End!