Business Connectivity Services (BCS)

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The Business Data Catalog (BDC) has been renamed to Business Data Connectivity in the SP2010 release. Business Data Connectivity is one component which makes up the Business Connectivity Services.

Comes with WSS4.0 and SP2010 (wasn't available in WSS3.0)
Read and Write capability
Integrated Editor Environment into SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010
Integrated into Office 2010 Suite

BCS Web Cast

Watch the webcast on BCS here it goes into how to create BCS in VS2010 and connect to an XML file for read and write.

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External References

Microsoft Sneak Peek - Overview Video
Microsoft Sneak Peek - Developer Video
MSDN Business Connectivity Services
business data connectivity model – finder method - @nickswan
HOW TO: Create a Searchable SharePoint 2010 BDC .NET Assembly Connector Which Reads From A Flat File
Todd has an awesome post on using BCS to read a flat file into SharePoint!
BCS Overview Demo Video
3 BCS Team overview videos, very good content

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Using SharePoint Designer 2010 to surface data in External Lists through Business Connectivity Services SharePoint 2010

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