Dedication

To my daughter, Rio Enna Lonsdale, and to my wife, Vicki Lonsdale

B.L.

To all the people still creating silos of data who need a solution like SharePoint and the BDC!

N.S.

Brief Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

Online Resources

About the Cover Illustration

Chapter 1. Introducing the Business Data Catalog

Chapter 2. Understanding the application definition file

Chapter 3. Security

Chapter 4. Out-of-the-box BDC Web Parts

Chapter 5. Using the Business Data field type in lists and libraries

Chapter 6. Configuring BDC search

Chapter 7. MOSS user profiles

Chapter 8. The ApplicationRegistry namespace

Chapter 9. Creating a custom BDC Web Part

Chapter 10. Integrating the Business Data Catalog with Microsoft Office

Chapter 11. Writing back to the line-of-business system

Appendix A. Connecting to SAP with the BDC

Appendix B. Connecting to Oracle with BDC

Appendix C. Connecting to data sources with web services

Index

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings

Preface

Acknowledgments