Online Resources

Manning’s Author Online forum provides a location where questions related to this book or the Business Data Catalog can be posted for the authors: http://www.manning.com/SharePoint2007DevelopersGuidetoBusinessDataCatalog

BDC Meta Man, which has been referenced in this book as a useful tool to create your application definition file, can be downloaded from http://www.light-ningtools.com.

The SharePoint Server 2007 Software Development Kit, which contains some code samples used within this book along with a tool to help create your application definition file, can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en.

The Northwind database was used as a sample database in SQL 2005 for this book. Northwind can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/Down-loads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06616212-0356-46a0-8da2-eebc53a68034&display-lang=en.

Episode 12 of the SharePoint Pod Show is a podcast recording of Brett Lons-dale, Nick Swan, and Rob Foster introducing the Business Data Catalog, and is a useful accompaniment to this book. You can download episode 12 from http://www.sharepointpodshow.com.

The author’s personal blog sites are http://www.brettlonsdale.com and http://www.sharepointnick.com.