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OData BCS Code Sample from TechEd 2014

By Tom Resing on May 19, 2014 / Development, Office 365, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Events / Leave a comment

Full Session Recording Last Wednesday, I presented a session on SharePoint’s Business Connectivity Services at Microsoft’s TechEd 2014 North America. It’s mostly demo and the recording is available on Channel 9. To start, I show connecting to a SQL Database from SharePoint Designer, creating an external list, modifying it’s views, adding an external business Data Column to a Document Library and surfacing the External Data in a Word Document. Development Example Part of Demo When @jthake told me my session

SPTechCon San Francisco 2014 Highlights

By Tom Resing on April 29, 2014 / Administration, Community, events, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Events / Leave a comment

SPTechCon San Francisco 2014 wrapped up last Friday. I was there from end to end, presenting in the first time slot Wednesday and the last time slot Friday. Here are some of my highlights from the show: Andrew Connell’s Keynote Andrew encouraged attendees to get used to the fact that Microsoft is moving to the cloud. As an example, he pointed out that Yammer has no executable install file. It is cloud only. And further, SharePoint Social will not be

DC Area SharePoint Events

By Tom Resing on March 24, 2010 / SharePoint Events / Leave a comment

SharePoint Saturday DC is coming up May 15th. Submit to present or register to come see me present if they pick me. The SharePoint User Group of Washington DC is having a meeting in Reston on 4/8 on Building Responsive SharePoint 2010 Applications with ASP.Net AJAX 4.0 Client Side Templating Check out EndUserSharePoint.com’s full list of upcoming SharePoint Events http://sugdc.org has a great list of all the other area SharePoint groups.

BDC Presentation in Austin Feb 10th

By Tom Resing on January 30, 2010 / Administration, Business Data Catalog, Development, SharePoint Events / Leave a comment

If you are in the Austin area, don’t miss my upcoming presentation to the Austin SharePoint User Group: ———————————————————– Join us for the February 10th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group! “Integrating External Data with the Business Data Catalog” February 10th Meeting Description: This session will take an in-depth look into the Business Data Catalog (BDC) with Microsoft SQL Server. It will include an overview of the Business Data Catalog, an introduction to configuring the BDC, and a

A SharePoint Saturday Acknowledgement of B&R Solutions

By Tom Resing on September 13, 2009 / SharePoint Events / 1 Comment

SharePoint Saturday events are a phenomenon touching many parts of the US and the world this year. The community and sharing I witnessed attending and presenting at my first event, Boston, impressed me. Boston’s organizer, Michael Lotter, implored me to host a local event. SharePoint Saturday DC convinced me we had to bring the format to San Antonio. Dallas and NY reinforced my commitment. I’m so happy that we can bring the power of this movement to our city November