Chaks' Corner

Now that you have configured BCS, you can create external content types and external lists. You can refer to my blog post – SharPoint 2010: BCS Walkthrough – to quickly learn how to create an external content type and an external list.   BDC Access Denied Error Now that your external list is... [More]

There has been a lot of blog posts floating around (including in this blog) on how to consume external data into SharePoint 2010 using the new Business Connectivity Services(BCS) feature set built using the new Business Data Connectivity(BDC) service application. But less has been told on how to con... [More]

You might ask what is new with Event Receivers in SharePoint 2010 and you are sure to get an answer that it is now possible to have event receivers for: List Workflows Synchronous and Asynchronous Event Receivers Now in SP2010, you can configure event receivers to be: Synchronous ... [More]

Note: Only supported in SharePoint 2010 and higher versions Something every SharePoint developer asks for and here it is how you log to ULS from your code in SharePoint 2010. Below is a console app: You need to add reference to Microsoft.SharePoint.dll. Very simple! And here is our log from UL... [More]

After the massive success of Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference 2009, where SharePoint 2010 was introduced, SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) held last week at San Francisco was a blast! With more than 700 attendees and 37 speakers, the conference had over 80 sessions which included ... [More]