SharePoint Magazine

There has been a steady growth in 3rd Party tools to provide either enhancements to weak functionality provided by out of the box WSS/MOSS or new functionality to complement existing functionality.

This series of articles is intended to help you getting ramped up with SharePoint programming. It’s about writing, troubleshooting and debugging SharePoint code.

In our everyday work we all use several Line-of-Business systems as well as all of us know well the Office client applications. Although the integration between them is not too common yet, I’d like to show you the advantaged and disadvantages, pros and cons of the integration, and give some useful tips and tricks if you decide to make some OBAs.

We are coming near the end of this 6 part series, but don’t worry, it’s not the last you’ll hear of me! This part focuses on ‘Why develop leveraging the SharePoint Platform?’. This is really targeted at ASP.NET developers specifically, but also other web application developers from other walks of life also. Or anyone currently working with Vanilla SharePoint and wanting to dig a little deeper!

In this article, we will be focusing on BDC Search. Specifically we’ll be focusing on how to enable BDC Search, how to enable full and incremental crawls of BDC data sources, and how to create a search content source and search scopes.