Fabian Williams Business Connectivity Services SharePoint Saturday DC Deck

FABIAN WILLIAMS

Business Connectivity Services

Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.comTwitter: @fabianwilliams

Working with External Content Types consumed by External Lists via SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010

Fabian G. Williams MCSD, MCDBA

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Fabian G. Williams is a SharePoint Architect atCDW Advance Technology Services InformationWorker Practice. In addition he is a MicrosoftCertified Solutions Developer (MCSD) and aMicrosoft Certified Database Administrator(MCDBA).Prior to CDW., Mr. Williams was theChief Technology Officer for WING, Inc.Recently, he was the Chief Internet Developerfor the Department of Defense’s GlobalEmerging Infections System and a SalesEngineer at Citrix Incorporated.

About the Speaker

Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

AGENDA

• Challenges with Back-End Data• Introducing Business Connectivity Services• Building the Solution

• Products and features used• How it was done

• Demo: SharePoint 2010 Designer Example (NO-Code)• Demo: Visual Studio 2010 Example (Oh Yeah Code!)• Summary• Q&A



The Woes of Surfacing LOB System Data to End Users

SharePoint Composites The New Home for Business Connectivity Services formerly (BDC)


Investment Areas



Business Connectivity Services – Umbrella TermBusiness Data Connectivity (BDC) – plumbing, runtime OM, connectivity, formerly the Buss. Data CatalogExternal System – back ends, LOB, WS, WCF, DB, etc.External Content Type (ECT) - previously your Entity in BDCExternal List – newest type of SP list

Grow your SharePoint Lexicon

SharePointDesign Tools

Office Applications

Business Connectivity Services in a Nutshell…


Architecture Diagram

Secure Store Service

External Data Search

Rich Client Extensions

External Data Web Parts

BDC Client Runtime

Profile Pages

External List External Data Column

Business Data Connectivity Service


What is Baked Into the Product – Bag of Tricks so to speak


Expose external data as a native SharePoint list

• Full CRUD capability

• Familiar UI and navigation

• Sort, Filter, Group

• Profile page available for each item in the list

• Offline-able

External List in SharePoint – Presentation Layer


Connect to Outlook asContacts

Tasks

Calendars

Posts

Off-lining External List – Extending in Office 2010

Advanced DeveloperDeveloperPower User

NO CODE* CODE


Empower your Users to be more Productive

Intermediate AdvancedSimple

• Create reusable components (UI parts, ECTs, actions)

• Out-of-box• Surface data in External

Lists• Connect those lists to

Outlook, SPW• External Data Columns

DeveloperPower User

NO CODE*

Advanced Developer

CODE

Different Strokes for Different Folks

