October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
46h 16m
English
In the 2007 version of the BCS—known at the time as the Business Data Catalog (BDC)—definitions of entities required third-party tools. A few competing tools were available, but they provided only functionality for building BDC entities. Two such products are BDC Metaman from Lightning Tools and MOSS BDC Design Studio from Simego.
However, the 2010 versions of Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer, both of which provide functionality for developing a wide range of other SharePoint features, introduce built-in BCS design and development. This can enable an easy definition of external content types for later consumption in SharePoint. The ability to build BCS functionality using the SharePoint tools already used ...
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