Error accessing Business Data Connectivity Services in Windows 7

While I was doing some research on BCS , wanted to import a BDC model from Central Administration > Manage service applications > Business Data Connectivity Services.

As I hit the link,  following error message prompted.

 

As usual did a search on the Google and found out the following entries.

http://sensoft2000-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2010/08/error-access-services-is-unable-to.html

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=23806

Downloaded the above fix and installed.

problem solved. :)

More references on the issue :

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dahnesh/archive/2010/06/16/error-while-accessing-business-data-connectivity-services-on-windows-7.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976462

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=976462&kbln=en-us

 

Sharepoint foundation 2010 on windows 7 x64

Today,I installed Sharepoint Foundation 2010 on my laptop successfully according to this article.Downloaded the Sharepoint Foundation 2010 from here and started following the installation steps mentioned in this article.

The second step under “To set up a developer workstation” failed successfully because of this command “c:\SharePointFiles\SharePoint /extract:c:\SharePointFiles”
Here it referred to a file called “SharePoint” but the name of the downloaded application was “SharePointFoundation.exe”. So in order to pass this step I had to change the name from “SharePoint” to “SharePointFoundation” in the above command.

After that I continued with the installation steps and managed to launch the setup.exe after completing the installation of prerequisites mentioned.
In the 3rd step under the  “Step 3: Install SharePoint 2010” I select the “Server Farm” option and in the next step I selected the standalone option.I had no clue what so ever why I selected that option, but it happened for some reason and it worked.

Then I had to wait for a quite a longer time to complete the installation and prompted to run the sharepoint configuration wizard.
And finally after the configuration wizard completed, it prompted the newly created sharepoint team site.(See image at top)

Now sharepoint foundation 2010 at my finger tips so that I can start playing with it.