SharePoint Magazine

An action is simply an operation upon a selected item. The operation can retrieve information about the selected item, or it can launch a program or Web page with the selected item as a parameter.

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

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.

It’s been a long while since I wrote the last part and had to find myself reading through all three parts again to realize how much my SharePoint knowledge has matured since then. This is something familiar to a lot of people in the SharePoint community that are evolving at a rate of knots with the Platform.

After reading this six part series hopefully you’ll have a clearer understanding of what the SharePoint Platform can offer to you and your organization. It will also provide some direction in using the SharePoint Platform.