Microsoft Business Connectivity Services Team Blog

Chances are you’ve already read Brad Stevenson’s post Types of Solutions and you’re interested in...

Date: 06/03/2010

If you’ve read Brad Stevenson’s post Types of Solutions then you’re already familiar with the three...

Date: 06/03/2010

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) has a synchronization framework that uses a client cache to...

Date: 05/13/2010

With Database, Web Service and WCF connectors, there is one and only one external system. BCS...

Date: 05/11/2010

BCS is a cool framework to bring external data to Office Applications on the client. But due to...

Date: 05/07/2010

We just uploaded the next installment on the BCS Team Channel. In this video Sanjay Rama takes you...

Date: 05/06/2010

Hi this is Juan Balmori with another post for the BCS blog. This is a follow up to my previous post,...

Date: 05/05/2010

Eric White posted great content on how to Search External Data in SharePoint 2010 using BCS. Here is...

Date: 04/30/2010

Filters are used by Microsoft Business Connectivity Service (BCS) to give values to input parameters...

Date: 04/29/2010

Tajeshwar Singh wrote a white paper which shows you how to use Microsoft Business Connectivity...

Date: 04/27/2010

If you’ve read Brad Stevenson’s post Types of Solutions, you’re already familiar with the range of...

Date: 04/25/2010

When getting acquainted with BCS, most new users work against an unsecured backend. This means they...

Date: 03/12/2010

The SharePoint Team Blog has a great series that walks you through the creation of an external list...

Date: 03/10/2010

Check out the SharePoint SPIdentity Team Blog to read up on how Identity was implemented in...

Date: 03/09/2010

In the last post, we covered how to use Sandboxed Workflow Actions to lessen the stress on your...

Date: 03/02/2010

Previous posts have mentioned how to represent business data as external content types, creating...

Date: 02/25/2010

As mentioned in the overview post, Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 allows end...

Date: 02/23/2010

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) provides many out-of-box capabilities that deliver rich,...

Date: 02/19/2010

Your external list worked great when you tested it, but it’s not working on the deployment server!...

Date: 02/16/2010

Another post for BCS… this is Juan Balmori, I’ve being working in the SharePoint 2010 release on how...

Date: 02/15/2010

Business Connectivity Services is an enabling technology for integrating data from external systems...

Date: 02/10/2010

Now that we have shown you the basics on how to: Create a model using SharePoint Designer Create an...

Date: 02/09/2010

In the last post, we covered how to use the out of box SharePoint Workflow activities to work with...

Date: 01/29/2010

The BCS Team Channel has a new video in which we show you how in just a few minutes you can create...

Date: 01/28/2010

When a user takes an external list offline to either SharePoint Workspace or Outlook, by default the...

Date: 01/22/2010

Hi, my name is JD Klaka, a test lead on the BCS team. I have worked on both SharePoint Workflow and...

Date: 01/20/2010

This post serves as a follow-up to Juan’s 11/19 posting entitled The Notion of Associations and the...

Date: 01/15/2010

Todd Baginski has a great series of how-to posts that demonstrate multiple capabilities of Business...

Date: 01/05/2010

The third installment of the BCS Team Channel is now live! In this episode you are taken on a tour...

Date: 12/14/2009

This is a post from the SharePoint Workspace team on taking external data into SharePoint Workspace...

Date: 12/10/2009

In the first installment of this series of posts, “BCS Tooling Investments in 2010: Part 1”, we...

Date: 12/09/2009

The second installment of the BCS Team Channel is now live! Juan Balmori Labra takes us on a tour of...

Date: 12/04/2009

External content type is probably the most important Business Connectivity Services (BCS) concept to...

Date: 12/02/2009

We’re excited to announce that at the Professional Developer Conference 2009 (PDC09) Microsoft...

Date: 11/24/2009

Solution designers, administrators, and end users interact with composite solutions using external...

Date: 11/24/2009

The BCS team is excited to announce the Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 public betas are available...

Date: 11/20/2009

In real world problems there is a frequent need to find related or complimentary information for a...

Date: 11/19/2009

As mentioned in the overview post, Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 allows end...

Date: 11/18/2009

The first of a series of episodes on the BCS Team Channel is live! Watch our very own Sanjay Rama...

Date: 11/13/2009

Solutions that leverage Business Connectivity Services (BCS) typically fall into one of three high...

Date: 11/12/2009

In this three-part video Brad Stevenson goes through a high-level overview out-of-the-box...

Date: 11/06/2009

The SharePoint IT Pro content team is proud to announce the launching of our new Business...

Date: 10/29/2009

The new SharePoint 2010 Getting Started site is now live and is a great resource to ramp up for...

Date: 10/28/2009

SharePoint Conference was a success and we were incredibly excited about the customer feedback...

Date: 10/27/2009

This post kicks off a series of conversations about the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS)...

Date: 10/19/2009

This blog is the place where the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) product team will help you...

Date: 09/28/2009