This presentation provides an overview of Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010. BCS allows SharePoint to connect to external data sources and systems. The presentation discusses BCS solutions, creating BDC models to define external content types, performing CRUD operations on external data, and searching external data through BCS. It also covers authentication in BCS and tooling support in Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010. The presentation concludes with a demonstration of searching external data using BCS.

1. ChakkaradeepChandran (Chaks) Consultant, Microsoft NZ Building custom BCS connectors

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3. Agenda BCS Overview BCS Solutions Creating BDC Models Create, Update, Delete Searching external data More demos…

4. What is BCS A set of features that provide the capability to connect SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 applications to any external system: Line-of-Business system (Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, or Siebel) Web 2.0 service Custom home-grown application Provides read/write capabilities to those external systems It provides out-of-box features, services and tools that streamline development to deeply integrate external data and services

5. Business Connectivity Services SharePoint BCS Client Dev Platform Enterprise Search Business Intelligence Collaboration Social Enterprise Content Management External Lists External Content Type Repository Business Data Connectivity Web 2.0 Web Service LOB DB WCF

6. Business Connectivity Services Presentation in SharePoint BDC Client Runtime Business Data Connectivity (BDC) BDC Metadata Store BDC Server Runtime Client Data Cache .NET Assembly Connector DB Connector WCF/WS Connector Custom Connector Client to Backend Direct Connection External data Custom .NET assembly SQL SAP ORACLE Siebel

8. Use custom code to integrate data into any Office app

10. Connect those lists to Outlook, SPW

11. Customize

12. InfoPath forms

13. Outlook task pane and ribbon

14. Workflow

15. Web Part PagesAdvanced Simple Intermediate

16. BCS Tooling Support SharePoint Designer 2010 Visual Studio 2010

17. External Content Types Office Clients Describes the schema and data access capabilities of an external data source and its behavior within Office and SharePoint BCS Client Customer FirstName LastName Email GetCustomer() GetCustomers() UpdateCustomer() DeleteCustomer() External Content Type (ECT) *formerly known as BDC Entity External Data Source (WebService, DB, .Net object, LOB system, Web 2.0 service, etc.) SharePoint BCS

18. Presentation Features External Lists External Data Columns Business Data Web Parts External Content Type Picker External Item Picker Profile Pages Presentation Features in Office 2010

19. External Lists Expose external data as a native SharePoint list Full CRUD capability Familiar UI and navigation Sort, Filter, Group Programmatic access via SPList OM Profile page available for each item in the list Form Auto-generated OOB Upsize to InfoPath Offline-able

20. No Code Solutions (vs) Custom Code

21. BDC Models in Visual Studio 2010 BDC Model SharePoint Project Item (SPI) BDC Model Designer BDC Explorer Minimal XML editing

22. Creating BDC Models in Visual Studio 2010

23. Authentication in BCS SharePoint Server Process Account CredentialsTicket Delegation Token Other External List BCS Runtime Secure Store Service Web Part Application Logged-on user Modes: PassThrough(Uses logged-on user) RevertToSelf(Uses process account) SSO Authentication (Credentials, etc. from Secure Store) Application Delegated Token SAML Token Credentials Legacy LOB Web 2.0 Claims Aware Service

24. Searching External Data Set ShowInSearchUI property in the LobSystemInstance Create Search Content Source Ensure Permissions are set Create ProfilePage Site Enable ProfilePages in BCS Central Admin Crawl

25. Searching External Data using BCS Demo

26. Summary BCS Overview BCS Solutions Creating BDC Models Create, Update, Delete Searching external data

27. chaksc@microsoft.com http://www.chakkaradeep.com Thank you

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