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BDC Meta Man - Version 1.2.0.2 Beta

We've put a new release of BDC Meta Man out late last night. This one is a beta at the moment as we wanted to give people a chance to test things out. If you have any trouble with this beta you'll be able to revert to 1.2.0.1 no problem.

Here are a details from the release notes:

New Features Added:

Developer and Professional Versions:

- Actions now appear inside BDC Web Parts in the same order they appear inside the Actions list on the Actions tab.

Previously, the display order of Actions in BDC Web Parts, was not always consistent with the order they were displayed inside the BDC Meta Man.

- Added support for tables with String identifiers.

- Added support for tables with Guid identifiers.

- Added support for tables with spaces in their names.

- Added support for tables with columns that have spaces in their names.

Professional Version Only:

- A custom Action builder has been added to the application to allow the creation of custom Actions. The custom actions can accept up to three parameters.

- Added the ability to set the Image Url for both the predefined Actions that come with BDC Meta Man, and custom Actions you create.

- Added two more parameters to the Actions tab to allow actions to accept up to three parameters.

Bug fixes (Developer and Professional Versions)

- Fixed the bug where an exception would occure when you clicked cancel on the Action Picker, without selecting one of the predefined actions.

 

If you have the professional version you'll also be able to create associations between entities with primary keys of guid or string type, and tables with spaces between the table names and column names.

Please leave us any feedback, whether that it works great, or you have bugs. Many thanks!

posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:36 AM

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# re: BDC Meta Man - Version 1.2.0.2 Beta 3/9/2007 5:44 PM David Solomon

Meta Man saves the day! After pounding away with custom web services, I decided to leverage the BDC and MetaMan made it easy to finish up my POC in less time than it took to read through the sdk. Thanks!

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