Past Office Developer Conferences (ODCs) were by invitation only

Pre-conference on Sunday was a 6-hour Office Development boot camp

Regular conference M-W• Keynotes including Bill Gates and various

Office VPs www.odc2008.com

Content Management Server integrated into MOSS

SQL Reporting Server integrated into MOSS

PerformancePoint publishes reports and scorecards into SharePoint (SP)

Web development with SP eliminates risk

Workflow development publishes to SP

WSS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0• “free” to run on any Windows Server 2003

MOSS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007• Built on top of WSS 3.0• Not free• Standard & Enterprise versions

Enterprise version includes Form Services, Excel Services & Business Data Catalog

Master Pages require MOSS

Wouter Van Vugt taught Client-side stuff

Office is unlikely to ever be .NET VBA is unmanaged COM scripting

• Use VSTO instead Examples:

• Ribbon customization• Programmatically disable Word functionality

to enforce standards• Task panes• Content controls (better than bookmarks)

Ted Pattison taught Server-side stuff OpenXML (.docx, .docm, etc.)

• XML data store “Every developer should use SP

Designer”• Easy to create, hard to re-use: Designer• Hard to create, easy to re-use: Visual Studio

Deployment of custom SP bits is still immature

1. Visual Studio Extensions for SP2. Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)3. Simple Tools for SP 2007

Development (STSDEV)4. Empty class, start from scratch

Visual Studio 2008 has more of this out of the box, for 2005 you have to install it yourself

Designer/Developer Interaction of Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer

PerformancePoint Technical Overview Inside MS: Real World Insights and

Examples of How MS IT Uses Office as a Development Platform

Web Services and SOA in MOSS Visual Studio Extensions for

SharePoint

Developing Document-Centric Solutions Using OpenXML and VSTO 3.0

Creating Dynamic and Data-Bound Views in Visio

Building High Performance Solutions on MOSS 2007

Planning & Designing BI Solutions using PerformancePoint & MOSS

Extending the Reach of BI Solutions: Delivering on the Promise of BI for the Masses