2007 Office System: Developer Posters

Have you seen the .NET Framework posters for developers? I love them! There are tons of marketing posters, of course, but the ones I find quite useful are roadmap and object model posters. The roadmap posters organize different technologies in a way that helps you understand how everything works together. Object model posters on the other hand, provide a graphic view of top level namespaces and key objects and are great in-the-wall reference documentation. If you have a bad memory (like me) and you just can’t find a way to memorize methods, properties, and events for each namespace of the .NET framework, you might need one of this posters.

Office development is a huge story, we have lots of products and inside each product, tons of objects and namespaces. We have been working on three posters that cover some key technologies related to Office development and we published last week the first two posters. 

• Developer Map for SharePoint Products and Technologies: It’s hard to place something big as SharePoint on a limited squared space. However, Mike Ammerlan found a great way of doing this and designed a great roadmap that was later transfomed into a poster. For me the value of this poster is that it helps you understand the difference between Windows SharePoint Services "v3" and the new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

• Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 Managed Object Model Poster: Did you know that InfoPath has a new object model that is completely managed? Well, we also published a great InfoPath 2007 managed object model poster built by Nima Mizad.

I think posters are a great option to help you get started and understand the overall picture of a new technology, they are also good elements for decorating your walls. If you have feedback related to the posters, please let me know. We are still working on the last one, so feedback is quite valuable at this point.

Enjoy!

~Erika