Hour 14. Understanding Business Connectivity Services

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

Creating external content types and external lists through SharePoint Designer 2010

Creating external content types and external lists through Visual Studio

By the Way

Due to the complexity of the topics discussed, some figures in this book are very detailed and are intended only to provide a high-level view of concepts. Those figures are representational and not intended to be read in detail.

As you’ve seen SharePoint is a great system to store and manage data. However, the capabilities of SharePoint are not limited to data stored within SharePoint. SharePoint connects and works with external data as well. This is possible through Business Connectivity ...

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