By Ethan Wilansky, 02/01/2012
Building a complete BCS solution is no easy task, but tips from our experts can help. These 6 lessons are the results of in-the-trenches experience. Take them to heart and save ...
By Ethan Wilansky, 12/12/2011
Using Windows PowerShell to assign a different value to a SharePoint list.
By Ethan Wilansky, 08/12/2011
Tips for how developers can successfully deal with SharePoint deployment and configuration challenges.
By Ethan Wilansky, 05/31/2011
The underlying SharePoint BDC code didn't catch this and the error message isn't exactly specific. What should you do?
By Ethan Wilansky, 05/09/2011
Did you set the Author field on all Webs in all site collections in all SharePoint Web Applications?
By Tomek Stojecki, 04/01/2011
Want to hide some of the type descriptors that appear in the item picker? Here's how.
By Stefan Kowalewski, 03/16/2011
Opening the entity in the SharePoint entity picker, you find all the filter descriptors are listed in the Find dropdown box, but the one you want isn’t selected as the default.
By Tomek Stojecki, 01/13/2011
Automate BDC application model deletion and save some time.
By Ethan Wilansky, 01/12/2011
The error message says The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service. Here's one solution involving configuring service application associations in SharePoint.
By Ethan Wilansky, 12/27/2010
After configuring a load balancer to accept only SSL requests for a SharePoint 2010 FQDNs, some URLs in SharePoint 2010 are not translated properly to https.
By Stefan Kowalewski, 12/06/2010
SharePoint InfoPath tip for when you don't want to display the ID of the selected value but something more user friendly.
By Tomek Stojecki, 11/22/2010
How to filter an external list in SharePoint.
By Stefan Kowalewski, 11/15/2010
How to make the deployment of reports through the development, QA and production environments smoother.
By Ethan Wilansky, 11/05/2010
Learn how to deploy your own custom InfoPath forms to external lists.
By Ethan Wilansky, 09/24/2010
How to resolve the Parameter is missing error in SharePoint
By Ethan Wilansky, 09/23/2010
Here's a tip for how to fix the List URLs in the manifest.xsf file and republish the form.
By Stefan Kowalewski, 09/02/2010
Error messages are useful in debugging, but they're not exactly what you want your users to see when they access your application--here's how to display a different message.
By Tomek Stojecki, 08/12/2010
To submit the InfoPath form programmatically to an external list, you will need to inspect the manifest.xsf, for starters.
By Tomek Stojecki, 08/10/2010
Make a type descriptor of type string a required field? Yes, it's not difficult.
By Ethan Wilansky, 08/02/2010
Did you get an unspecified ASP.NET error when you tried to create an external list?