Leveraging Windows Azure WCF Services to Connect BCS with SharePoint Online

Introduction You might have read an earlier post of mine where I discussed the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS) functionality in SharePoint Online (SP-O) and walked through how you can leverage jQuery and JavaScript to interact with an external list in SharePoint Online. This blog post assumed that you had created an external list in the first place and provided you with some code snippets to create a view of an external list. Since that time, a great post from Christian Glessner popped up that shows you how you can walk through creating an external list using SQL Azure.

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Leveraging Windows Azure WCF Services to Connect BCS with SharePoint Online

SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Kit

Provides developers with advanced guidance on how to develop Windows Phone 7 Applications for SharePoint.

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SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Kit

SharePoint and Windows Azure Development Kit

The July 2011 release of the SharePoint and Azure Development Kit is a training course to help developers integrate SharePoint and Windows Azure.

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SharePoint and Windows Azure Development Kit

Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples

This guide has four accompanying samples, covering all of the scenarios described in the book: a typical on-premises application, the first migration to Windows Azure and subsequent optimizations.

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Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples

DataMarket Add-In for Excel (CTP1)

DataMarket Add-In for Excel is a free application that allows discovering and importing data from Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket into Microsoft Office Excel.

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Developing an Inspector Wrapper for Outlook 2010

Learn to implement an inspector wrapper to handle multiple instances of Outlook 2010 inspector windows. Author: Helmut Obertanner and Angela Chu-Hatoun (MVP)

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Developing an Inspector Wrapper for Outlook 2010

Object Model Considerations for Protected View in Word 2010

I got some great questions recently about macros and Protected View in Word 2010, and thought I'd write something up to help anyone else who's looking at this issue – enjoy!   Word 2010 includes enhancements to security, one of which is the inclusion of a Protected View used when opening files from untrusted sources (e.g.

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Using Microsoft Word to Create Reports For LightSwitch (or Silverlight)

LightSwitch has a really nice feature on data grids that allow you to export them to Excel if running out of browser (full trust). This gives you a basic way of getting data out of the system to create reports or do further analysis on the data using Excel. However, in business applications you typically want to provide some client-side reporting that also formats the data in a certain way so it can be printed easily.

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Using Microsoft Word to Create Reports For LightSwitch (or Silverlight)

Video: Connecting to a WCF Service Using Business Connectivity Services in Office 2010

Watch this video as you learn to create a BCS external content type for Office 2010 based on a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service.

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Sample: Connecting to a WCF Service Using Business Connectivity Services in Office 2010

Explore the code as you learn how to create a BCS for Office 2010 based on a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service.

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