Chaks' Corner

Creating External Lists using SharePoint Designer 2010 or SharePoint 2010 UI is just a breeze. But what if you want to create them programmatically? There are two different ways you could do so: Using Object Model Using the SPWeb.Lists.Add method we can create an external list: SPListDataSource ... [More]

  This year, I am presenting two sessions at TechEd New Zealand 2010: Session 1 OFS203 Building Business Applications using Business Connectivity Services using SharePoint Designer 2010 (Part 1) Track: Office & SharePoint Time: Tuesday, August 31 11:50 - 12:50 This session will show ... [More]

Below is a simple table to find what BCS features are baked into the SharePoint 2010 platform editions: BCS Feature SharePoint Foundation Standard Edition Enterprise Edition External List Yes Yes ... [More]

Even though BCS is great and can do wonders when you want SharePoint 2010 to interact with your external systems or other LOB applications, it has its own limitations. Understanding these limitations will help you build good BCS solutions. Below are some/all of the BCS/External Lists limitations: ... [More]

Silverlight for SharePoint 2010 is one of the newly added features to SharePoint 2010. It includes a rich set of APIs that allow you to interact with SharePoint data – lists, document libraries, sites etc., from your Silverlight application. I am in the middle of reviewing the Microsoft Silverligh... [More]