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Creating related external BCS lists in SharePoint 2010

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint 2010 allows you to create external BCS lists which can surface the data from external data source. As it often happens, external data sources may have various inter-related entities where foreign keys represent relationship between those entities. In this … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 Business Data Connectivity throttling

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When working with BCS in SharePoint 2010, you are likely to connect to an external system which already has its primary function. Maybe it’s a legacy application which users work with and you need to consume data from to present … Continue reading →

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Getting started with custom SharePoint BCS models

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in not a new concept; in SharePint 2010, however, it’s easier to create BCS model to connect to any custom data residing virtually anywhere and on any system. In this example, I will demonstrate how you can … Continue reading →

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Bringing SQL data into SharePoint list in 8 min

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you attended my TechDays session last week where I demonstrated how you can connect to SQL Server data and present it in SharePoint 2010, here is the video that shows how to do that: Bringing SQL data into SharePoint … Continue reading →

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Creating SharePoint 2010 BDC list instances in programmatically

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When building out your solution in Visual Studio there is a bit of a problem whne it comes to how you actually define your external list connectivity for your external lists. All of the other list templates seem to have … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 BCS: Adding custom Create/Update/Delete methods

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

With Visual Studio 2010 you can crete a sample BCS model that will allow you to create an external list and grab external data to present in SharePoint. Visual Studio has a great template showing you how you can create … Continue reading →

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Importing SharePoint 2010 BCS Application Model

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

A little while ago I recorded a screencast on how you can create a BCS Application Model. Well, in this post I would like to show you how to import this model over to the SharePoint environment, both using UI … Continue reading →

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