Hi,
Has anyone successfully connected BCS in SharePoint 2013 online to a WCF service?
I wanted totry out connecting BCS from Office 365 Enterprise Preview to a simple WCF service. Sadly, I’ve fallen at the first hurdle.
I’ve generally followed the steps in:
Connecting to a WCF Service Using Business Connectivity Services in Office 2010 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff953200%28v=office.14%29.aspx)
I’ve tested the published service with WCF Client, it’s working correctly.
However, when I try to add a connection in the SharePoint designer, after several seconds I get the error: “Cannot connect to Business Data Connectivity Metadata Store”. WCF logs in the service show no error, so it is on the SharePoint server side.
I’ve tested it with:
- .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.5 WCF service
- wsdl and mex endpoint
- Office 365 Enterprise Preview and my local SharePoint 2013 Foundation
- The error is always the same.
The user has all possible rights to BCS. My service requires no authentication.
Does anyone have any ideas? Or made successful attempts to achieve this (i.e. connecting to a WCF service)?
Michał Kołodziejczyk