Microsoft Business Connectivity Services Team Blog

Your external list worked great when you tested it, but it’s not working on the deployment server! Reading the SharePoint logs , you see a message like one of these: Timeout expired. BDC Runtime Object Model has throttled the response. The response from...

Business Connectivity Services is an enabling technology for integrating data from external systems (e.g. line-of-business like an ERP or CRM system) with SharePoint 2010 and Office. Data in external systems is frequently exposed through granular web...

Another post for BCS… this is Juan Balmori, I’ve being working in the SharePoint 2010 release on how to simplify customers lives by using data from external systems in Office client applications such as Word and Outlook. This time I am going to focus...

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) provides many out-of-box capabilities that deliver rich, end-to-end solutions. BCS is also a programmable platform, allowing developers to further extend BCS to create customized solutions. Three types of BCS solutions...

As mentioned in the overview post, Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 allows end users to interact with external data using SharePoint and Office interfaces. For this, BCS provides an abstract data access layer that SharePoint and Office...

Previous posts have mentioned how to represent business data as external content types , creating external lists out of these external content types, and how to eventually make this business data available offline in Office applications like Outlook and...

Now that we have shown you the basics on how to: Create a model using SharePoint Designer Create an external list using SharePoint Designer or the Browser Take the external list into Outlook and/or into SharePoint Workspace Create associations...