Session Code

Session Title

Why should you attend this session?

CLI201

The Changing Paradigm of Office Development: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Provides some defining boundaries of what Office development was, is and will be.

CLI202

Developing and Deploying Smart Clients for Office

VSTO 3.0 is by far the best release for this product—which is now in VS 2008 Pro and above. For those of you who really want to check out how to extend the client, this is a good primer.

CLI203

Developing Custom Office Business Applications: From the Client to SharePoint and Beyond

You’re going to hear a lot about OBA at ODC, and this is where it starts. We’ve got some good demos and info that ties smart client development (see CLI202) with MOSS (see Server tracks) and ‘beyond’ or SAP, PeopleSoft and other LOBs (see ARC305/312 & SVC307 for service and architecture guidance). Also check out CLI310 for Eric’s OBA in an hour coding extravaganza.

CLI205

The Nine Essential Power Tools for Every Developer: Extending Visual Studio to Enhance the Office Development Experience

This is all developer centric and in such a way to make your life easier when developing Office solutions.  

CLI206

Integrating Office Client Customizations with Services in the Cloud

Within the theme of OBA, many companies are tying services into client customizations to build some interesting solutions. This session gives you some guidance on the how and what when it comes to integrating services into VSTO customizations.

CLI207

Leveraging Your Existing VBA Investments

There are still a lot of companies out there with VBA code and they’re not sure what to do with it. It talks about some futures, but really emphasizes the value in your current investments in VBA. A good combination with CLI209.

CLI208

Adding Geographic Information to Groove Collaboration with Virtual Earth

Geographic information systems are the craze, and you can learn some lessons for applicability not only for Groove but for other Office applications as well.

CLI209

Integrating VBA Macros and .NET Managed Code using VSTO 3.0

A good follow-on from CLI207, this session gives you the interoperability story between VBA and VSTO, but then also showcases real-world migrations of VBA to VSTO. Many companies are looking to something with their VBA code; this provides some insight into the migration path.

CLI301

Integrating WPF & WCF into Your Office Business Applications

The Huckster is a natural-born demo-God, and this session is no exception. He’s got some great demos and info on how you can integrate (where it makes sense) WCF and WPF into your OBAs.

CLI302

Integrating Unified Communications Data into Office Business Applications

Presence is becoming more popular within Office solutions. And being able to understand personal availability from within an OBA is just cool stuff!

CLI304

Developing document centric solutions using Open XML and VSTO 3.0

A good partner with CLI314, CLI307 and CLI306, this gives the developer some great info on how to create doc-centric solutions on OpenXML and VSTO.

CLI305

Access Developer Extensions: Free and Better Than Ever

One of the few Access sessions we have, but provides some great info on developer extensions.

CLI306

Using LINQ to XML to query and transform Open XML documents

LINQ is the new querying language. Seeing this applied to XML and document transformation will be very informative and interesting. Think about also attending CLI304, CLI307 and CLI314 if you’re beefing up on your OpenXML knowledge.

CLI307

Generating Enterprise Content using InfoPath 2007, SharePoint and the Microsoft SDK for Office Open XML Formats

A rare session that combines different technologies for server-side document-centric solutions.

CLI308

Creating Dynamic and Data-Bound Views in Microsoft Office Visio

Visio is being used more pervasively in the organization, and many companies are trying to do just this—integrate data into their Visio documents to make them more dynamic and real-time.

CLI309

Turning Outlook into a Front-End for Third Party Systems

Many companies are extending Outlook to build solutions into one of Office’s top productivity tools. This is an interesting session because it shows you how you can actually do this.

CLI310

Developing an Office Business Application in an Hour

Eric will show his coding magic and build an OBA in an hour. Need I say more?

CLI311

Building electronic forms with InfoPath 2007

InfoPath is a great tool that can be cross-applied to many different uses. Understanding where and when you can use it is an essential ingredient in any developer’s arsenal.

CLI312

Developing An Advanced Budgeting Application with Excel 2007

This and CLI313 provide some guidance on using the native functions of Excel to create solutions. This sessions is great in that it walks you through an existing end-to-end solution and shows you how it was done.

CLI313

What’s new in XLLs and the C API for Excel 2007?

A good partner with CLI312 to learn more about using native Excel functionality to build Excel solutions.

CLI314

Use the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML to Program the Office Open XML File Formats

Ken always provides a great show, and this will be no exception as he talks OpenXML and LINQ, two very popular technologies within the world of Office development.