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Importing SharePoint 2010 BCS Application Model

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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Screencast: SharePoint Designer BDC Model to Visual Studio

With SharePoint Designer 2010 you can easily create an external content type and expose your external data as list; however, this does not provide sound disaster recovery story. Here are some tips&tricks on exporting your SharePoint Designer 2010 external data … Continue reading

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Creating BDC model in Visual Studio 2010

Last time I talked about creating BDC model in SharePoint 2010 using SharePoint Designer 2010. Pretty quick solution, but in case you’re creating a custom SharePoint project with all sorts of other solutions – probably you want to include your … Continue reading

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Programatically creating External Content type in SharePoint 2010

When delivering a SharePoint 2010 talk last Saturday I was asked whether it’s possible to save the external list as a template and the answer at the time of this Beta 2 timeframe is no. One of the reasons you’d want … Continue reading

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