BCS or Business Connectivity Services is a part of SharePoint that acts as a medium to bind different types of data together. BCS provides out of the box services, tools and features that make SharePoint so compelling. BCS brings all the systems, containing valuable data into SharePoint.
BCS can be viewed as three major components.
1. Back-end systems, like databases, WCF services etc.
2. The BCS layer, which includes runtime, External Content Types (ECT) and external lists.
3. Office applications, including InfoPath.
Here, we will discuss about transferring the data as External Content Type from the database to SharePoint using BCS and SharePoint Designer without any coding
For simplicity we will use Northwind Database, script for this database is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23654
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