Theobald Software released a new product suite called ERPConnect Services for SharePoint 2010. The product contains a new kind of query language named XtractQL to query SAP business data in a SQL-like manner. XtractQL or XQL is a combination of SQL and ABAP language syntax statements to simplify querying SAP systems. XtractQL allows querying SAP [...]
The Business Connectivity Services (BCS) of SharePoint 2010 provide a great way to fully integrate external data into the SharePoint. In most cases developers are integrating SQL database tables into the BCS services. But how do we connect to a SAP system? How do we integrate real world SAP business data like tables and function [...]
SharePoint 2010 provides developer with the capability to integrate external data sources like SAP business data via the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) into the SharePoint system. The concept of BCS is based on entities and associated stereotyped operations. This perfectly suits for flat and simple structured data sets like SAP tables. Another and way more [...]
Theobald Software GmbH is finally releasing an existing new product to integrate SAP business data into SharePoint 2010. ERPConnect Services is its name and consists of 3 components, which allow you the complete range of data integration between SharePoint and your SAP ERP/BW system. ERPConnect Services also gives you the opportunity to realize Single-Sign-On scenarios: Using [...]
Download FluentSP 1.0 from Codeplex.com Once you are doing a lot of SharePoint programming you know you often have to write lengthy pieces of code to implement simple tasks like querying SharePoint lists. Nowadays you can read a lot of fluent APIs or fluent interface. For instance, jQuery, a JavaScript library that had successfully introduced [...]
The new Service Application Architecture in SharePoint 2010 is a replacement of the Shared Service Provider (SSP) architecture known from SharePoint 2007. The framework offers greater flexibility in configuring, scaling and administrating SharePoint shared services. The Service Application Framework (SAF) is now part of SharePoint 2010 Foundation, the old Shared Service Provider framework was part [...]
During the process of creating a complex SharePoint application you often need to send mails and create text files based on SharePoint data elements like SPListItem or SPWeb. Mail templates for instance mostly contain specific list item data. It would be helpful sometimes if the text generation itself is template-driven. This article shows how to [...]
The Secure Store Service in SharePoint 2010 replaces the Single Sign-on Shared Service of MOSS 2007 and provides an easy way to map user credentials of external resources like SAP systems to Windows users. During the process of developing SAP interfaces using the very handy ERPConnect library from Theobald Software you have to open a [...]
A couple of times I had the situation where I needed to export SharePoint list data into a PDF file in a customized way. I wanted to use some kind of template technology to translate SharePoint list data into a PDF file. I was working with a text templating system called DotLiquid before (see also [...]
Developing a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application requires sometimes to execute an asynchronous task with long-running execution steps, e.g. calling a web service. If those steps are triggered by user interactions, you want show a progress dialog to block the user interface and display detail step information. In some cases you also want to allow [...]
