It’s always better live. MSDN Events Developer Productivity Improvements with Visual Studio 2008 and Office Business Applications

What Will We cover? Overview of Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) Architecture New built in add-ins

Level 300 Helpful Experience Developing Visual Studio Applications Microsoft Office and Office Business Applications

Agenda Office As A Developer Platform The “Results Gap” with LOB Apps Office Business Applications VSTO Overview SharePoint WorkFlow Tools Ribbon Development Custom Task Pane ClickOnce Deployment

Office as a Developer Platform Familiar user interface 500+ million users worldwide Office Open XML file formats Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enabling collaboration Portals Enterprise search Enterprise content management Business process support BI delivery platform

Agenda Office As A Developer Platform The “Results Gap” with LOB Apps Office Business Applications VSTO Overview SharePoint WorkFlow Tools Ribbon Development Custom Task Pane ClickOnce Deployment

LOB Apps The “Results Gap”

LOB Apps Office Business Applications

Agenda Office As A Developer Platform The “Results Gap” with LOB Apps Office Business Applications VSTO Overview SharePoint WorkFlow Tools Ribbon Development Custom Task Pane ClickOnce Deployment

Estimate custom design Unstructured Create Lead Qualified? Retire Lead Create Oppt’y Create Quote Closed? Complete Sale Create Invoice Get specs from customer Validate specs with Tech Sales Cost out the solution Decide discount strategy Assemble proposed response Approve proposed response Structured “Classic” Enterprise Applications Office Business Applications Estimate custom design Unstructured Office SharePoint Server WordExcelOutlookInfoPath

Document-level code behind Brings Microsoft Office into the managed world Strict security model Custom ActionsPane Host Controls on doc surface Cached Data in the document Server-side data processing App-level add-ins for Outlook VSTO 2008 New designers: ribbon, custom task pane, Outlook form region App-level add-ins for most client programs ClickOnce deployment and security VBA/VSTO interoperability Workflow & Microsoft SharePoint support VSTO integral part of Visual Studio 2008 Professional VSTO 2005 & VSTO 2005 SE VSTO 2003 Visual Studio Tools for Office

Office Applications Visual Studio 2008 Professional includes Visual Studio Tools for Office Visual designers for Ribbon, Task & Action pane, SharePoint Workflow Integrated Workflow & Microsoft SharePoint Support Data binding in Word Content Controls Application-level add-ins for most client programs (both 2003 & 2007) Document-level add-ins for Excel & Word 2007 Improved deployment and security using ClickOnce

Agenda Office As A Developer Platform The “Results Gap” with LOB Apps Office Business Applications VSTO Overview SharePoint WorkFlow Tools Custom Task Pane Ribbon Development ClickOnce Deployment

SharePoint Workflow Tools What is a workflow? A reliable repeatable pattern of activity enabled by a systematic organization of resources and information flows E.g. Document approval process Workflow Foundation (WF) integrated Programming model, engine and tools to build workflow enabled applications Consists of a Microsoft.NET Framework v3.0 (formerly WinFX)

SharePoint Workflow Tools VSTO vs. SharePoint Designer Limited reusability Develop, deploy, and debug SharePoint workflows “Simple F5 Experience“ Focus on your business logic right away

It’s always better live. MSDN Events Creating A SharePoint WorkFlow

Custom Task Pane Adds custom functionality Dynamically set properties Show/Hide, dock position Responds to event handlers On hide, on show, on data bind To create a Custom Task Pane, Create UserControl for UI and functionality Add UserControl to CustomTaskPaneCollection

It’s always better live. MSDN Events Building a custom Task Pane

Ribbon Development Office has built-in support for XML-based customization model VSTO 2005 SE support: Simplifies hookup from.NET via pre-generated classes and sample XML VSTO 2008 support: Adds full-blown visual designer support “Export to XML” option A more robust programming layer

It’s always better live. MSDN Events Building a custom Ribbon

ClickOnce Deployment Two competing goals in application development Interactive, stateful, rich client application Thin client application model ClickOnce deployment overcomes: Difficulties in updating applications Impact to the user’s computer Security permissions

ClickOnce Deployment Three ways to publish a ClickOnce application From a Web page, network share, media ClickOnce applications are self- updating ClickOnce applications are isolated and self-contained. Cannot break existing applications

ClickOnce Deployment FeatureClickOnceWindows Installer Installation-time user interface Single promptMultipart Wizard Installation of assemblies on demand YesNo Installation of shared filesNo Yes Installation of driversNo Yes (with custom actions ) Installation of GACNo Yes Installation for multiple users No Yes

It’s always better live. MSDN Events Setting Up ClickOnce Deployment

Session Summary Office as a develop platform Office business applications bridges the “Results Gap” Visual Studio Tools for Office SharePoint Workflow Custom Task Pane Ribbon Development ClickOnce Deployment

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