Tomorrow
May 31 from 19:00
(GMT +2:00) we will be holding a presentation about consuming Windows
Azure Data inside SharePoint via Business Connectivity Services (BCS for
short).
To tease you more about it, I am giving some info snippets and
screenshots of what you could expect. We will talk about general usage
of BCS and extracting content from back-end (external) systems. General
requirements for getting data from Windows Azure.
We will show a hands on demo, developing a .NET Assembly Connector
for retrieving data from Windows Azure Data set and present it in
SharePoint as External List. We will give answer to the questions why we
are using .NET Assembly Connector, why don't we just use a WCF service
and connect via SharePoint Designer.
Also, you could expect a few tricks - what issues you might encounter
developing for SharePoint Foundation or for public facing SharePoint
portals.
The presentation will be broadcasted in a live meeting. For now, it
will be held in Bulgarian, but should there be enough interest, we will
schedule another webinar in English. You can register for the event at: https://www149.livemeeting.com/lrs/8002574606/Registration.aspx?pageName=gjt64mwjvcd3fvm8
In the end, we have arranged some SharePoint awards. Oh, yes, I almost forgot - here are a few screenshots:
The Map web part is retrieving data from Windows Azure via a configured External List
We have prepared a SharePoint web application where we will demonstrate the hands on demo
Using Visual Studio 2011 BETA to create the .NET Connector Assembly
