If you’re looking for guidance on how to integrate SAP and/or PeopleSoft into your Office applications, then the OBA Sample Application Kits are a great place to start. These kits provide good documentation and source code to help you get up and running quickly. The kits include: 1. Source code for...

Scot Hillier (Microsoft MVP) and Bhushan Nene just published an article titled “ Building Excel 2007 and Excel Services Dashboards by Consuming Two-Dimensional Data from Web Services ”. The article shows how to develop a solution to consume web services in Excel and Excel Services to build dynamic dashboards...

Interested in learning about how others are building and using solutions built on MS technology but don’t want to read a long case study? Check out Microsoft.com Success Stories site -- a rich, interactive (Silverlight-powered) environment where you can experience stories about Microsoft-based solutions...

Open XML SDK roadmap was announced last week. For those who aren't familiar with this SDK, it is an API for .NET developers and designed to make it easier to build Open XML solutions. Full details at Doug Mahugh's blog below: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2008/03/13/open-xml-sdk-roadmap...

Several folks from the extended OBA team and MVPs have been diligently working on an OBA book and I'm pleased to let you know it has now been published! Written by Rob Barker, Joanna Bichsel, Adam Buenz, Steve Fox, John Holliday, Bhushan Nene, and Karthik Ravindran, it's a practical guide to using the...

First, we're now only 18 work days away from ODC 2008!! There's some excellent OBA related content and world class speakers in each and every track so if you haven't checked out the details yet, I encourage you to do so now. You can find details of the various tracks and sessions via the links below...

We're proud to unveil the inaugural "OBA Solution of the Year" award contest sponsored by OBA Central and culminating at ODC 2008! Details of the OBA Solution of the year contest are posted at OBA Central: https://www.obacentral.com/Pages/SolutionContest.aspx If you have a great OBA solution...

If you are into OBA/SharePoint development, Ted Pattison needs no intros. I had the pleasure of meeting him at last week's TechEd Developer Conference in Barcelona and he was kind enough to share his insights on what he's hearing and seeing as it related to Office development. Check out the video...

One of the OBA related news at TechEd Developer Barcelona was about the availablity of S+S BluePrints. These are open source frameworks designed to make it easier to build S+S applications. These frameworks include source code, guidance, structured step-by-step workflow and tools delivered within Visual...

Attending TechEd Developer in Barcelona (Nov 5-9 2007)? Be sure to check out some excellent Office/OBA development related sessions that are being offered. Here's a small sampling! - OFF308 - Extend the Office User Interface with VSTO 3.0 - OFF303 - Build an OBA in an Hour - OFF401 - .NET developers...

Energizer is using the 2007 Microsoft Office system to create Office Business Applications (OBAs). These applications take advantage of the power of the Office Business Platform—the client and server software, services, and tools that make up the 2007 Microsoft Office system—to give workers easy access...

Channel 9 discusses OBA with Epicor. ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications at Epicor (Part 1) ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications @ Epicor (Part 2) ARCast.TV - Office Business Apps @ Epicor (Part 3) - Khawar

The Microsoft Office team is pleased to announce the dates and location for the 2008 Office Developer Conference ! When: February 10-13, 2008 Where: San Jose Convention Center , San Jose, CA Who: 2000 developers and architects who build solutions on the Office platform (Office clients, servers...