Slides from my Business Connectivity Services talk at SharePoint Saturday Kansas City 2010.

1. How Business Connectivity Services will change your life Corey Roth Blog: www.dotnetmafia.com Twitter: @coreyroth

2. Corey Roth SharePoint Solutions Architect for Stonebridge Microsoft SharePoint MVP Specializing in ECM and Search Passed all SharePoint 2010 certification exams Microsoft Solutions Advocate E-mail: coreyroth@gmail.com Twitter: @coreyroth Blog: www.dotnetmafia.com Laptop: Dell E6510 i5 2.4 GHz 8GB Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.8 – 4GB on VM

3. Progress Bar = Q&A Time! SharePoint Designer 2010 is slow (at least on my machine)! See a progress bar? Ask a question!

4. Translation Guide

5. Business Connectivity Services No code connectivity to external data sources Full CRUD Support including reading and writing Built with SharePoint Designer 2010 Offline access via SharePoint Workspace Outlook Integration Searchable just like in MOSS 2007

6. External Lists Allows data from BCS to appear as a native SharePoint list Supports full CRUD Can customize edit form using InfoPath

7. Data Sources Database table / view WCF / Web Service Business Data Connectivity Connector (BDC Entity Model or Custom Connector)

8. Resources Blog Posts BCS Walkthrough on DotNetMafia.com http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2010/02/02/it-s-easy-to-configure-an-external-list-with-business-connectivity-services-bcs-in-sharepoint-foundation-2010.aspx How to: Create a BCS Profile Page on DotNetMafia.com http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2010/04/15/how-to-create-a-bcs-profile-page-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

9. Questions? Corey Roth Blog: www.dotnetmafia.com Twitter: twitter.com/coreyroth