How to setup SharePoint BCS Services

The instructions to setup BCS services is confusing to me.. need to setup BCS so I can use Excel to access data in an existing SQL Azure database.. how do I set this up??

I wanted to use BCS so that my customers that don't have Excel can be given a link to access the Azure data without them having Excel installed and therefore thru the brower.. already accessing the data thru Excel directly as you stated.. if there is a
better way I am all up for that... THX for your response..

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Read List Items using Sharepoint Web Services and jQuery | Robert Kuzma on SharePoint, HTML, CSS &amp; JavaScript, …
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I've exactly the same problem that is descripted
here, so I'll add its description here.
My SharePoint is 2010
I am trying to access the web services that are located in this url:
http://<part_of_th_url_omitted>/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx. I have no problem accessing
this URL using my broswer, that is, when I type the URL and my browser's address bar and press enter, I can see the list of the services that are available. I encounter no problem by accessing this site through my browser at all.
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that I enter as the dialog box is keep on appearing.
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requires a username and password". SO it really, what oonly changed is the URL, it has now the $metadata at the end. What do I do? I eneter the username and password again.
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9. after doing that, the dialog box reappears again and it shows the same message as in step 6. So I do steps 6, 7 and 8 in a loop.
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doing that, I can then, surprisingly, see the list of the web services. However, not surprisingly, I still can't use it because the "Add Reference" button which I need to click in order to use the Web services is disabled. So I can only see the list
of the services but I can't use it.

Hi Gaston,
I would suggest you the following thread, check whether it meet your scenario, it shows that if you have set IE options to remember the username and password, and you have enter wrong password before, this issue may happen:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/a7f466a5-0e4a-4f75-ad29-9591e2357e10/sharepoint-web-services-visual-studio
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TechNet Community Support

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