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 [...]
Prior to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 there was no official documented way to programmatically use the built-in ULS service (Unified Logging Service) to log own custom messages. There are still solutions available on the internet that can be used, but SharePoint 2010 now supports full-blown logging service support. To log a message to the SharePoint log [...]
The SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) are providing an Administration Object Model to manage all kind of BCS objects. You can use the an Administration Object Model to programmatically create BDC models, LOB system and instances, Entities and Methods. The Microsoft SharePoint Designer is using the object model itself to let you generate External [...]
I wrote a new article about SharePoint 2010, SAP and BCS (Business Connectivity Services). I have published this article and a demo project with source code on Codeproject: How To Integrate SAP Business Data Into SharePoint 2010 Using Business Connectivity Services And LINQ to SAP A PDF version of the article can be downloaded from [...]
I wrote a new article about SharePoint on CodeProject.com (How To Implement A Generic Entity List Repository And Business Logic For SharePoint 2010 Using The T4 Templating Engine). This article describes how to implement a generic, extensible entity list repository and business logic for SharePoint 2010 using the T4 templating engine (Text Template Transformation Toolkit). [...]
