http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2009/12/13/context-in-sharepoint-2010-business-connectivity-services-or-the-lack-of-it/ SharePoint & Code Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:13:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2009/12/13/context-in-sharepoint-2010-business-connectivity-services-or-the-lack-of-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1180 Jaap Vossers Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:32:03 +0000 http://blog.vossers.com/?p=229#comment-1180 Hi Brian. Don't get me wrong I do love the new BCS stuff! :) The point of this post is to point out to people that something important seems to be missing, and it would be really cool if Microsoft would agree and decided to change this before the RTM version is released. Obviously if you don't plan on developing reusable BCS solutions, you won't be affected by this limitation, so I do see your point. Hi Brian. Don’t get me wrong I do love the new BCS stuff! The point of this post is to point out to people that something important seems to be missing, and it would be really cool if Microsoft would agree and decided to change this before the RTM version is released. Obviously if you don’t plan on developing reusable BCS solutions, you won’t be affected by this limitation, so I do see your point.

]]> http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/2009/12/13/context-in-sharepoint-2010-business-connectivity-services-or-the-lack-of-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1169 Brian Bedard Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:20:54 +0000 http://blog.vossers.com/?p=229#comment-1169 I love the new External List functionality. It takes the Business Data column to its expected evolution. I'm sorry you're having a hard time porting it and making it reusable. When I start actually developing solutions for the External List I'll be sure to investigate it and make a blog post. Just remember every new feature with Microsoft takes a little time to gain traction and become "solid". We should be happy they gave us this functionality -- I've been waiting for it ever since the BDC was introduced. Maybe because creating an External List is so easy once the External Content Type is created, they want us to use Designer to create them. And because I like to write my own features and site definitions and use CAML and API to provision components, I might be a little irked too. I love the new External List functionality. It takes the Business Data column to its expected evolution. I’m sorry you’re having a hard time porting it and making it reusable. When I start actually developing solutions for the External List I’ll be sure to investigate it and make a blog post. Just remember every new feature with Microsoft takes a little time to gain traction and become “solid”. We should be happy they gave us this functionality — I’ve been waiting for it ever since the BDC was introduced. Maybe because creating an External List is so easy once the External Content Type is created, they want us to use Designer to create them. And because I like to write my own features and site definitions and use CAML and API to provision components, I might be a little irked too.

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