BDC Meta Man Web Edition Version 1 has finally been released: The following is from the announcement made in the Lightning Tools newsletter, add yourself to the mailing list to get the latest news on Lightning Tools developments. This tool compliments BDC Meta Man in that it allows your power users to build BDC applications from within SharePoint and use them straight away without needing direct browse access to your Shared Service Provider. You can download a free trial of the tool and see videos of it in action by visiting this link: http://www.lightningtools.com/bdc-meta-man/web-... [More]

I am really excited about the fact that Lightning Tools now has a Head Office, it's going to have a huge impact on the way we work and it will be great to work closer with the team.  Last August my girlfriend and I moved to our current flat in Bristol, it has a second bedroom which I have converted into my office, it’s a decent size and allows me to shut the world out and get my head down to work. The place we were in before was pretty small and working from home in your front room is tough on all concerned, all lines between work and life are gone and you don’t feel that you... [More]

We have been working very hard to get this latest beta release out, the response to BDC Meta Man Web Edition at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in San Diego was fantastic, it’s such a great feeling to get the responses we did. Associations was one of our biggest technical challenges with the solution so far, it has taken some great effort to get to where it is now and I hope people appreciate how much effort has gone in :) I am still impressed when we use our latest product as it does make creating Application Definition File’s so much easier, the scree... [More]

BDC Web Man 1.0.0.0 has been released. Trial and Pro versions now available. “BDC Web Man can save you many hours by generating all the web service code you need to present your data to the Business Data Catalog. (BDC)” Check it out here: http://www.lightningtools.com/blog/archive/2009/02/10/bdc-web-man-1.0.0.0-released.aspx