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

Sample: Outlook 2010: Access Lists of SharePoint Objects Using Outlook.PickerDialog

This sample shows how to use the new PickerDialog object in Outlook 2010, to access a SharePoint server to get a list of objects such as users, distribution lists, and so forth.

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Sample: Outlook 2010: Access Lists of SharePoint Objects Using Outlook.PickerDialog

Attaching a File or an Outlook Item to an Outlook Message

Attaching a file to a Microsoft Outlook mail item is one of the most popular customer actions in Outlook.   Naturally, many power users also ask how to do this programmatically. The Outlook object model provides the Attachment  object, Attachments.Add  method, and an Attachments property for each of the Outlook item objects  (for example, mail, appointment, contact, meeting, and task items), to support adding an attachment to an Outlook item

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Attaching a File or an Outlook Item to an Outlook Message

Office 2010 Developer Map – NEW!

Start visualizing the applications, services, client/server data-access technologies, on-premise servers, platform products and technologies, and tools that help developers build multiple line-of-business solutions.

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Office 2010 Developer Map – NEW!

Sample: Creating a .NET Connectivity Assembly for Business Connectivity Services by Using Visual Studio 2010

Explore the code as you learn to create a BDC model that uses BCS entities in Visual Studio to access a matrix in SQL Server. Author: Martin Harwar (Other)

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Sample: Creating a .NET Connectivity Assembly for Business Connectivity Services by Using Visual Studio 2010

Using Conditional Formatting in Access 2010 Reports (Visual How To)

Learn how to use Access 2010 to add support for simple conditional formatting in reports in this visual how-to video and overview.

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Using Conditional Formatting in Access 2010 Reports (Visual How To)

Power Tip: Integrate Silverlight into an Access database

Derrick VanArnam and Russell Fox have developed a sample Access database that shows how to integrate Silverlight into an Access database.

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Power Tip: Integrate Silverlight into an Access database

Video: Efficiently Getting and Setting Custom Properties in a Contact Folder in Outlook 2010

Watch this visual how-to video and learn to get and set custom properties for contact items in Outlook 2010 using the GetProperties and SetProperties methods of the PropertyAccessor object.

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Video: Efficiently Getting and Setting Custom Properties in a Contact Folder in Outlook 2010

Using the New Expression Builder to Build If-Then Statements in Access 2010 Applications (Visual How To)

Watch the video and explore the code as you learn to create a nested IIf function call when you design a query using the new Access 2010 Expression Builder. Author: Ken Getz (MVP)

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Create SQL Server Compact Edition Database with VBA

In a previously post I wrote about how we can retrieve data from a SQL Server Compact Edition (SSCE) database with ADO and Excel.

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Create SQL Server Compact Edition Database with VBA