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Upgrading to AS2 Connector V3

Quickly import your old profile and trading partner information from previous versions of AS2 Connector.

Tutorial: RSSBus AppServer Events

RSSBus apps can raise events when a particular condition is met. In the RSSBus AS2 Connector app, for instance, sending a file raises two events: BeforeSend and AfterSend. These events become useful when you want to take action on them. RSSBus apps allows you to programmatically take advantage of events through simple scripts. This tutorial shows you how to enable actions in scripts associated with events in RSSBus apps.

Discussion: Security and RSSBus AppServer

Security is a serious concern for any system administrator. RSSBus apps typically store, modify, and share sensitive information that shouldn"t fall into the wrong hands. Obviously, precautions must be taken when deploying RSSBus AppServer. This document discussions the provisions RSSBus AppServer supplies to secure connections to its host.

RSSBus AppServer: User Management FAQ

RSSBus AppServer offers a robust suite of user managements tools. Administrators can add and remove users, control what apps users use, and choose the specific areas of apps users can access. This FAQ covers the general concepts of user administration for RSSBus AppServer.

How To Use Services With RSSBus Service-Enabled Solutions

RSSBus Solutions based on the RSSBus AppServer framework allow you to securely access your business data from anywhere on the web. Exposed services give you programmatic access to your apps with powerful suite of commands. In this tutorial, we will use AS2 Connector, one of the solutions built on the RSSBus AppServer platform, and list the available logs with the List Logs service.

Tutorial: Hosting RSSBus Apps in IIS

Hosting RSSBus Service-Enabled™ Apps in IIS allows apps to run on a server without a user logged in. This tutorial guides you through the process of setting up IIS to host RSSBus Apps.

RSSBus in the Cloud: Deploying AS2 Connector to Windows Azure

Deploy RSSBus AS2 Connector to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service and make worries about having to build, host and scale your AS2 services a thing of the past.

Setting Up Pseudo Columns with LightSwitch.

Pseudo columns behave like normal columns and are used to refine data by passing them through Where clauses. This tutorial will show you how to expose a Data Provider's pseudo columns such as MaxResults.

Accessing SharePoint Online with the RSSBus SharePoint Data Provider.

The SharePoint Data Provider offers connectivity with on-premise SharePoint Server as well as SharePoint Online and Office 365. This walkthrough demonstrates how to properly authenticate and connect to SharePoint Online / Office 365.

Faster Access to Salesforce.com using the Salesforce Data Provider

The RSSBus Salesforce Data Provider for ADO.NET makes it easy to get data from Salesforce. But what if you need to return tens of thousands of records? How can you get all this information without there being a huge delay in the application? This example shows how to optimize your application to get faster results from Salesforce.

Faster Access to QuickBooks using the QuickBooks Data Provider

The RSSBus QuickBooks Data Provider for ADO.NET makes it easy to get data from QuickBooks. But what if you need to return tens of thousands of records? How can you get all this information without there being a huge delay in the application? This example shows how to optimize your application to get faster results from QuickBooks.

Connect QuickBooks to SQL Server through SSIS

Easily back-up QuickBooks data to SQL Server using the QuickBooks Data Provider for ADO.NET. This example uses an SSIS workflow to populate a database with QuickBooks data using the QuickBooks ADO.NET Data Provider.

LINQ to QuickBooks

LINQ provides general-purpose query facilities in the .NET Framework 3.0 and above and provides one easy way to programmatically access data through from RSSBus Data Providers for ADO.NET. This example uses LINQ to access information from the QuickBooks Data Provider.

Connect to QuickBooks From LightSwitch Applications

Integrate Visual Studio LightSwitch applications with QuickBooks. This example shows how to display QuickBooks entries in LightSwitch using the QuickBooks ADO.NET Data Provider.

Publishing LightSwitch Applications

This article walks through the process of deploying a LightSwitch application that uses any of the RSSBus ADO.NET Data Providers to a new host.

Use PowerShell to List Google Docs

Are you looking for a quick and easy way to access your Google Docs from PowerShell? The Google Data Provider provides a simple, easy-to-use ADO.NET interface that you can take advantage of from your PowerShell Scripts. Simply use the included SQL like .NET objects (GoogleConnection, GoogleCommand, GoogleDataAdapter, etc) in your PowerShell scripts to connect to your Google Apps accounts and synchronize, automate, download, and more!

Accessing website data using ADO.NET

An article from iProgrammer explores accessing Web data through the RSSBus Data Providers: Interacting with websites via the wide range of APIs that are on offer is attractive because it provides new possibilities but is slightly depressing because you have to find out how to do the job all over again for each API. Now there is a better way...

OLAP Reporting Directly from QuickBooks using ComponentOne OLAP for WinForms

Rich Dudley from ComponentOne explores using the RSSBus QuickBooks Data Provider and ComponentOne OLAP to build a powerful QuickBooks reporting application, all without writing a single line of code.

Hooking into Google Apps With RSSBus Google Data Provider

Mike Gold reviews the RSSBus Google Data Provider on C# Corner: This is a review of a component called the RSSBus Google Data Provider which allows you to access the Google API through a SQL-like Data Provider interface. This provider opens up the entire Google Application Suite to the .NET developer through familiar ADO.NET tools and classes

Usenet Newsgroup Browser in SharePoint

Use the RSSBus NntpOps connector to access Usenet Newsgroups from SharePoint sites.

Multi-Source Search in SharePoint

Search multiple online resources simultaneously directly from SharePoint

List Document Libraries and Documents

Create a Web Part to display a list of the most recently modified document libraries/documents on the site in 30 seconds.

Twitter Search Web Part

Easily include Twitter searches and streams inside their SharePoint pages.

A SharePoint Web Part for Shipment Tracking

Shows how users can easily integrate shipping and tracking with SharePoint. Input a tracking number for UPS, USPS, or Fedex and then display tracking events for that shipment in an easy to read table.

Customize SharePoint RSS Feeds

Customize SharePoint RSS Feeds with extended RSS meta information

Simple SharePoint Image Rotator

Create a dynamic image rotator that connects the SharePoint picture library with other SharePoint pages.

Quickly Integrate Custom SQL Queries With SharePoint

Perform custom SQL queries easily customize the resulting display directly from SharePoint.

List Active Directory Groups and Users in SharePoint

This web part will list each user group and its members, as defined in your Active Directory (or other LDAP server) installation.

Customize SharePoint RSS Feeds

Customize SharePoint RSS Feeds with extended RSS meta information

Keep Your SharePoint Calendar Synced with Google

Keep your SharePoint Calendar(s) synced up with your Google Calendar. This example Syncs a Google calendar with SharePoint using RSSBus for SharePoint.

Search Email History Web Part

Quickly bring up a list of email correspondence to and from a particular email address directly from SharePoint pages

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Integration with SharePoint

Integrating SharePoint with Microsoft Dynamics CRM does not have to be complicated. This articles shows you how you can add an elegant grid of CRM contacts into SharePoint with only ten lines of configuration.