PDC 2005 Office & SharePoint breakout sessions schedule

Looking to build Business Intelligence and reporting portals and dashboards? Come learn how to build your solutions on the new SharePoint Portal "v3" and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services platforms to provide live visual dashboards and portal sites optimized for all reporting needs. Topics include setting up and customizing a Report Center in a SharePoint Portal building on the new portal features, using Excel and Report Builder to publish spreadsheets and reports to the portal, and more.

"Office 12" is introducing a new, declarative model for customizing the Office user interface using XML. Learn about what is possible and how your Office solutions can benefit from the new technologies.

"Office 12" is introducing a new, declarative model for customizing the Office user interface using XML. This session dives into the details of the markup and the resulting behavior, describes how the markup interacts with DLL-based code, and provides guidance for migrating existing solutions and developing new ones.

This session covers the architecture and design of Groove applications connected to enterprise systems. We show how to use the Groove Forms tool to build collaborative applications with the Groove client, and take apart a custom C# application that uses the Groove Web Services to connect Groove workspaces and Groove Forms data into an enterprise process.

The new Microsoft Office Open XML Formats are the default XML file formats for "Office 12". The power and accessibility of these XML file formats are designed for programmability and open up numerous scenarios for manipulating files, creating files from scratch, repurposing content and merging files with business data. This session explains the architecture of the new Open XML Formats, details of the application schemas and walks through how to create a couple of detailed solutions using the WinFX API to control file content.

This session dives deeply into the new server capability for forms, including server architecture, the security model, performance and authentication. Learn about Visual Studio development with InfoPath for .NET form rendering, business logic checks (through FxCop on the server), data connectivity on the server, and hosting the server form control in an interactive custom aspx page.

Learn how to combine the new "Access 12" capabilities with the collaboration environment provided by SharePoint sites to build smart client solutions for SharePoint list and library data. "Access 12" has significantly enhanced design tools, full schema interoperability with Windows SharePoint Services, and a new sandboxed development model. We show how to put these tools to work building rich applications in Access that store their data in SharePoint sites, collect data through InfoPath and Outlook, and take advantage of new services from "Office 12" SharePoint Servers. Best practices are discussed around taking SharePoint list data offline, implementing workflow capabilities, and creating reusable template applications, tables and fields for end users.

This session covers facilities and techniques for grafting new features into a variety of standard and custom SharePoint sites. It also highlights enhancements into the site definition and provisioning model for giving users a self-service method to create ready-to-use sites that fit specific business activities.

The next version of SharePoint sites will include support for new types of data, new options for working with them, and improved interoperability with other Windows Server technologies. This session covers how to take advantage of these facilites within your own code to make use of SharePoint sites for more types of collaboration scenarios.

"Project Server 12" provides a comprehensive platform for creating project collaboration, program management, and IT governance solutions. In this session, learn how to use the new eventing and programmability for advanced scheduling, workflow operations and more in Project 12.

This session highlights the more important fundamental changes that will make "Outlook 12" a better development platform-making it easier to build solutions that are immediately more robust, usable and manageable. Learn about significant changes in programming the user interaction, the core object model and performance.

This session covers enhanced functionality for designing, deploying, and maintaining Web portals and other applications that depend on large amounts of HTML content.

A solution that manages the life of a document can be complex when it involves workflow, content types, policy management, publishing, solution-specific views, and multiple methods of interaction. This session walks you through one complex scenario that integrates the new Enterprise Content Management technologies in the Microsoft "Office 12" client and server products, featuring code at each stage of the document life cycle.

Word 2003 introduced the concept of structured documents with its support for custom XML. This session will show how Word "12" takes XML document programmability to a new level, offering improved robustness, more intuitive user interaction, and true data/view separation using the new XML file format. A basic overview of the improved out of the box capabilities (incl. integration with Windows SharePoint Services) will be introduced, and then the power behind those will be shown through a more complex scenario leveraging these features.

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Rapid development of both client and browser forms is central theme of the next version of InfoPath. This session covers what's changed in forms development for "Office 12." Drill into deeper integration with Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System and the new all-managed object model. Learn how to reuse your work through form template parts and through migrating your existing forms investments with the importer/exporter framework. Understand how to integrate InfoPath forms into your own application by hosting InfoPath as an ActiveX or WinForm control, and how to extend InfoPath itself through COM add-ins.

Microsoft is making a significant investment in enterprise search with the next version of SharePoint technologies. This session provides a short overview of new product capabilities-including enhancements to relevance, end user experience, and manageability-and then focuses on opportunities for using search in your custom enterprise applications.

Data comes from everywhere. Learn about the new technologies being delivered with the next version of the Microsoft Office System for connecting to enterprise data within portal and workspace applications. We cover recommended practices and interfaces for streamlining the use of business data in Office servers.

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Business Intelligence (BI) is all about business users making better and faster decisions based on the correct data. Getting accurate data into users' hands is crucial to any successful BI application. With that goal in mind, learn how to use SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services and "Excel 12" to build an enterprise-level data analysis solution. In this session, we show you how to develop server-side business rules and unified views of business data for one version of the truth, while at the same time providing end users with simple, self-service flexibility in Excel to make accurate decisions quickly. We cover advancements in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, "Excel 12", and how the two products integrate to provide a total solution. Analysis Services topics focus on using Visual Studio to design and organize metadata, develop server-side formatting and exception highlighting, create server-driven actions, develop Key Performance Indicators, and optimize all of the above for analysis in "Excel 12". "Excel 12" topics include the next generation data visualization, analysis, connection and publishing technologies.

Your application deals with huge amounts of data-making sense of that information and communicating it broadly is vital to making your users successful. Learn how to incorporate dynamic views of data into your smart client application using the new data visualization capabilities in "Visio 12". Stepping through the creation of an example application, topics covered include connecting to data sources (e.g. Excel, Access, SQL Server, SharePoint lists, and XML), programmatically mapping that data to shapes, and surfacing the data on the diagram using the Data Graphics API.

This session will provide a deep overview of the Microsoft Customer Relationship Management (CRM) V3.0 architecture and its rich extensibility model. We'll show how to use Microsoft CRM managed web services, XML schemas, extensive customization tools, NET managed assembly extensions and client side scripting to build powerful sales automation and price proposal management applications in a Service Oriented world. The session also covers how to use Microsoft CRM Workflow NET managed extensions to integrate your custom business logic and process models with CRM. We will use a real price proposal management business scenario to walk you through the CRM extensibility features and show numerous cool demos and code walkthroughs as part of the session. You will also learn how to integrate Microsoft CRM with other applications such as Microsoft Office System (Word, Excel and SharePoint) using the CRM web services, NET Framework and Visual Studio Tools for Office as part of the price proposal management solution design.

This session covers Windows SharePoint Services' behavior as an ASP.NET Web application, specifically in the areas of Web Parts, master pages, pluggable providers, and much more.

The technology that allows Office clients and servers to use SharePoint sites as repositories for documents, discussion threads, and many other kinds of content has evolved. This session covers how such facilities work and how you can use them for your own applications.

This session covers how to implement workflow within SharePoint sites, as well as handling SharePoint site-specific issues that would be necessary for any workflow