Jan13

Need some inspiration....?

Categories: General Ramblings, .NET Stuff

If you need some inspiration on a dull, cold Monday in January take a read of this article:

New York Times - Plenty of Fish

If that idea that you've been trying to put out of your mind time and time again keeps bouncing back make 2008 the year to do it!

There's a good podcasts about how Plenty of Fish runs on ASP.NET below The audio is a bit dodgy to start with but stick with it as it gets better and the content is very very good...

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=331500

As a complete aside I now know of 3 couples who are married or are getting married who found each other by Internet dating.

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Jan11

Office Developer Conference 2008

Categories: .NET Stuff, SharePoint

Feb 10th-13th I'll be in San Jose to attend and present at the Office Developer Conference 2008. I'll be covering 'building solutions around the business data catalog' (of course! :)). There are lots of other great SharePoint Developer sessions going on so if you do approach SharePoint from the dev side this is the conference to go to.

As well as presenting I'm looking forward to meeting up with fellow SharePoint MVPs Andrew Connell, Ted Pattison, John Holliday, Dustin Miller, Rob Bogue, and Dave Mann. If you're attending the ODC 2008 (there's still time to sign up!) and want to meet up let me know!

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Jan10

BDC Mapper Web Part - new release

Categories: .NET Stuff, SharePoint

Shortly before Christmas we released a new version of the BDC Mapper Web Part. This had a couple of cool enhancements:

1. Actions displayed in the pop up bubble
If you had actions defined for the entity you wanted to plot on virtual earth you can link to these actions now in the pop-up balloon.

2. KPI pushpins
If you had a value in your entity you wanted to use as a KPI you could set the colours of the pushpins to change to reflect whether the value was good, bad or moderate.

You can see these two new features in action in the image below...

We've currently got a trial of this web part available from our site. You can get the trial and more info on the web part from here:

http://www.lightningtools.com/pages/bdc-mapper-web-part.aspx

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Jan8

Configuring BDC and SSO - white paper

Categories: SharePoint, .NET Stuff

One of the most common support question we get around the Business Data Catalog is regarding Pass Through authentication and the 'Double Hop' issue! When proof of concept work is done with everything installed on a single server it all works great but as soon as you move to staging or production and SQL Server is on a seperate box to MOSS 2007 if you are using NTLM authentication you'll hit this.

The simple work around is to use RevertToSelf BDC authentication, but if you do want to have users authentication individually against your LOB System you'll need to either implement Kerberos or SSO.

Brett has written a great white paper on how to implement SSO so you can get BDC working with it. It's a free white paper (registration needed to download) that you can get from here:

http://www.bdcmetaman.com/downloads/bdc-sso-whitepaper.zip

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