Chapter 6. Indexing and Searching Business Data

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

  • Understand the challenges addressed by the Business Data Catalog (BDC).

  • Create an application definition file containing the declarative syntax to make the business data indexable and searchable.

  • Understand the various steps involved in the administration, configuration, and customization of the indexing and searching of business data.

  • Get a jump-start in the runtime object model of the BDC, and learn how to search and find business data directly in a Web Part.

The preceding chapters gave you a brief introduction to the indexing and searching of business data. This chapter goes a bit further, giving you more details on how to configure the indexing of ...

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