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Steve Gaitten
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7 months ago
in Everything You Need to Know about BDC: Part 1 of 8 on SharePoint Magazine
Randy,
Nice job on the intro to BDC, I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
I would also recommend that anyone who is interested in the BDC should take a few minutes to learn about MashPoint from Bamboo Solutions. [http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/mashpoint/default.aspx] MashPoint is a free platform from Bamboo, modeled on the BDC. MashPoint has virtually all the capabilities of MashPoint and more and is available for both MOSS and WSS.
It's also worth mentioning that Bamboo's complete gallery of over 40 SharePoint Web Parts is currently being updated so that all relevant Web Parts can be configured to display data directly from the BDC or MashPoint. The first two Bamboo products to support these data sources are the Calendar Plus Web Part and the Chart Plus Web Part. These two Web Parts are great ways to visualize a BDC or MashPoint connected data source. In the coming days, we will issue updates to Data-Viewer Web Part enabling configurable datasheet views of external data sources, and many other popular Bamboo products.
;) -S
Nice job on the intro to BDC, I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
I would also recommend that anyone who is interested in the BDC should take a few minutes to learn about MashPoint from Bamboo Solutions. [http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/mashpoint/default.aspx] MashPoint is a free platform from Bamboo, modeled on the BDC. MashPoint has virtually all the capabilities of MashPoint and more and is available for both MOSS and WSS.
It's also worth mentioning that Bamboo's complete gallery of over 40 SharePoint Web Parts is currently being updated so that all relevant Web Parts can be configured to display data directly from the BDC or MashPoint. The first two Bamboo products to support these data sources are the Calendar Plus Web Part and the Chart Plus Web Part. These two Web Parts are great ways to visualize a BDC or MashPoint connected data source. In the coming days, we will issue updates to Data-Viewer Web Part enabling configurable datasheet views of external data sources, and many other popular Bamboo products.
;) -S
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I considered mentioning MashPoint here, but opted to keep it out. Thanks for putting in a plug for it. :)