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Slides from my talks at SPTechCon Boston 2011

This post is long overdue, but better late than never. I had a great time at SPTechCon 2011 in Boston. I had the chance to meet a lot of people in person for the first time that I had only previously known through twitter. I gave two talks this year. The first being my Instant...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 06-20-2011
How to: Create a BCS Profile Page in SharePoint 2010

I was working on updating my Search demo for #spshou and my BCS search results were really ugly. I didn’t have a default action specified on my search results, nor did I have a profile page, so instead the search results would give me the BDC protocol URL which is not usable by an end user. ...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 04-15-2010
Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group – How the SharePoint 2010 BCS will change your life

I’m excited to bring a SharePoint 2010 talk to the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group this Monday (4/12). Here is a brief summary. How many hours have your wasted building simple ASP.NET applications to do nothing more than simple CRUD operations against a database? Many tools have made this...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 04-09-2010
Speaking about How Business Connectivity Services (BCS) may change your life in SharePoint 2010 at Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group on 4/12

Ok, so the title may be overly dramatic, but the BCS is really freaking cool now. With SharePoint 2010 just around the corner, now is the time to start learning how you can leverage it. I’ll be talking about the Business Connectivity Services at the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group on 4/12...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 03-09-2010
It’s easy to configure an External List with Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint Foundation 2010

One of my favorite features in SharePoint 2010 is External Lists. If you haven’t heard by now, the MOSS 2007 Business Data Catalog (BDC) has become Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010. The ever better part is that it is included in SharePoint Foundation and does not require...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-02-2010
Features I am looking forward to the most in SharePoint 2010

I’m not privy to the NDA, so I got to look at some of the new SharePoint 2010 ( #sp2010 ) information for the first time with the Sneak Peak videos on the Microsoft site. I’ll try not to just repeat information in the videos, but tell you what I am looking forward to and make comments. I...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 07-13-2009
Trying out BDC Meta Man Web Edition

I decided to download the trial of BDC Meta Man Web Edition from Lightning Tools today since I have used BDC Meta Man so much in the past. I found the tool to be quite functional and I easily able to connect to a database table and import an application definition. There are several steps...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 06-10-2009
The object was not found. (The item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it.)

I’ve seen a few people asking about this in the Crawl Logs and thought I would take a few minutes to address it. First and foremost this is a warning and not an error message. Sometimes when you receive this message, it is the crawler behaving normally. Other times it is because of...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 05-19-2009
Error: Entity Id is Invalid when viewing Business Data Catalog entity

Recently, I was troubleshooting and Enterprise Search / BDC issue and I encountered the following error when trying to view the entity page of a given LOB system. Entity id is invalid As usual, this error was completely and totally useless. I really needed to be able to view the details of my entity...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 04-13-2009
Enterprise Search Crawl Error: The parameter is incorrect

I have been reconfiguring a search index and running into this issue a lot, so I thought I would post on it. In my case, I am crawling a content source that comes from a BDC application definition. The first time I crawl, I get the following error. The parameter is incorrect. (LobSystemInstance could...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 12-29-2008

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