Part V. Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
In this part of the book, you'll integrate external data into your SharePoint solution using Business Connectivity Services (BCS). BCS is a significant improvement over the Business Data Catalog (BDC) provided with SharePoint 2007. With BCS, you'll create an external content type (ECT) that represents data from an external data source. Then you can create a list based on this content type, which will function like the native SharePoint lists.
In Chapter 18, you'll create ECTs using the SharePoint Designer, which connects to a SQL Server database. You will also create multiple ECTs that are associated based on a common field and see how the forms provide an instance picker based on this association. In ...
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