This document provides an overview of Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010. It discusses the BCS architecture and components, including external content types, external lists, and associations. The presentation demonstrates BCS tools in SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010, and various solution types from simple to advanced. It also covers the different web parts available to display external data and security options in BCS like pass-through authentication and using the Secure Store Service.

1. Business Connectivity Serviceswith SharePoint 2010 Alexander Meijers 1

2. About me Alexander Meijers Solution Architect / SharePoint Consultant Over 16 years of IT experience Small to large SharePoint projects Owner of the Dutch SharePoint User Group SharePoint Black belts group SharePoint Geek and Speaker Blog: http://www.bloggix.com Usergroup: http://www.dutchsug.nl Twitter: @ameijers 2

3. Agenda BCS Architecture BCS Components Tools & Solution Types Web Parts Security 3 Demo’s with SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010!

4. BCS Architecture 4

5. BCS Architecture 5

6. BCS Architecture BDC Metadata store provides the storage for a collection of External Content Types BDC Server Runtime connects to external data through External Content Types OOB Web Parts available to display external data and provides deep integration through external lists BCS Security supports Secure Store Service or custom security model Solution Packages Package BCS solutions as Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) delivering to SharePoint Workspace, Outlook, Word Data support SQL, Dynamics, SAP, Siebel, LOB, Web 2.0 6

7. BCS Components 7

8. BCS Components External Content Types External Lists Associations Profile page 8

9. External Content Type “Describes the schema and data access capabilities of an external data source and its behavior inside SharePoint and Office clients” Stored in the Metadata store of the BDC service Connections default / client As native Office entity in SharePoint, Outlook, SharePoint Workspace, Word, InfoPath, Access, other through code Permissions Operations like Read Item, Read List, Create, Update, Delete methods Allows you to create associations Allows you to specify actions (via BDC Service) Profile page 9

10. External List “A means to expose external data defined by an External Content Type as an ordinary SharePoint list” Trustful environment Searchable Not all list options are available Workflow not allowed Not possible to add / change columns Taking lists offline Office Item Type  Generic List, Appointment, Contact, Task and Post 10

11. Association “Relations between External Content Types to enrich your data” Based on foreign key One-to-many association Self-referential association Not based on foreign key One-to-many association Many-to-many association Association based on uniqueness of multiple ECT’s 11

13. Created / Upgraded when generated based on the association

14. Using BDC Web Parts

16. Tools SharePoint Designer 2010 Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint 2010 BDC Service Metadata store 14

18. Custom forms In SharePoint and Groove

19. Connect to existing back-end integration services or simple databases

20. Simple BDC models

21. Few ECT’s

22. Simple association

23. Transparent packaging

24. Managed by BCS

25. OOB UX and data integration on thin and rich clients

26. Applications that support VSTO add-in

27. Through Office, SharePoint and BCS Models

28. Custom back-end connectivity through .NET objects

29. Complex BDC models

30. Many ECT’s

31. Complex associations

32. Explicit packaging

33. Managed by developers15

34. Solution scenario’s 16 Client Microsoft Word Microsoft Outlook SharePoint Workspace VSTO 4 Solutions Declarative Solutions Advanced Simple .NET Host Connector SharePoint Designer 2010 Server

35. SharePoint Designer 2010Demo 17

36. Visual Studio 2010Demo 18

37. Web parts 19

38. Web Parts Business Data Item Builder Business Data Item Business Data List Business Data Related List Business Data Actions Business Data Connectivity Filter 20

39. SEcurity 21

40. Security 22 There are different security options available when using BCS solutions

41. PassThrough Uses logged-on user RevertToSelf Uses process account SSO Authentication Credentials and other from Secure Store BCS Runtime Credentials Delegation token Tickets Other Apps Web Parts Security modes 23 Process Account Logged On User Secure Store Service Legacy LOB Web 2.0 Claims Aware Service

42. Questions? 24