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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Video: Connecting to a WCF Service Using Business Connectivity Services in Office 2010
Video: Connecting to a WCF Service Using Business Connectivity Services in Office 2010
Accessing an OData Producer using an Office 2010 Add-in
To continue the theme of landing external data in Office 2010, I’ve taken a demo excerpt from a session I presented at a conference last week to show how easy it is to land OData information in an add-in. In this sample I simply use the Northwind Database which is a publicly available OData producer .
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Accessing an OData Producer using an Office 2010 Add-in
Creating a SharePoint Visual Web Part using Visual Studio 2010
Last year we built a business application for order management for Northwind Traders on the Office and SharePoint platform using Visual Studio 2008 and Office & SharePoint 2007. Lately I’ve been writing articles that show how to upgrade it to Office & SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010. If you missed them: Migrating an Outlook Client to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010 Build WPF Data Controls for Outlook Addins Easily with VS2010 Migrating a 2007 Workflow to Visual Studio & SharePoint 2010 I also released the migrated sample application here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/OBANorthwind If you look at the VS2010 solution in that sample you’ll see a few extra projects in there that add more functionality to our application
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Creating a SharePoint Visual Web Part using Visual Studio 2010
OBA Part 1 – Exposing Line-of-Business Data
Last post I talked about the high-level architecture of our O ffice B usiness A pplication for the new Northwind Traders. There are a lot of different architecture options to consider when building an OBA. OBA is all about using Microsoft Office with your Line of Business (LOB) data.
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OBA Part 1 – Exposing Line-of-Business Data