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SDC 2009 Recap & Surprise
20 October 09 06:39 AM

SDC09 has been a blast. I just finished my last session on Building Office Business Applications with Visual Studio 2010 and I think it went well. We created an OBA for good old Northwind Traders. I migrated the 2008 code which is here on code gallery Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Speaking, Community, DevCenter, VSTO, OBA

Using Windows Presentation Foundation in Office Clients
10 August 09 05:31 PM

I was cleaning up my desk today and in the piles of mail and gobs of paper I found the SDN Magazine “Women in Technology” issue 101 that featured an article I wrote that was released in print back in May. Well, I just noticed today that near the end of Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO, OBA

OBA Part 5 - Building the SharePoint 2007 Workflow
21 April 09 10:06 PM

In my last few app building posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for the new Northwind Traders. If you missed them: OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data OBA Part 2 - Building and Outlook Client against LOB Data OBA Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Office, Workflow, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO, SharePoint, OBA

OBA Part 4 - Building an Excel Client against LOB Data
08 March 09 03:45 PM

In my last few app building posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for the new Northwind Traders. If you missed them: OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data OBA Part 2 - Building and Outlook Client against LOB Data OBA Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, DevCenter, Article, Office, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO, OBA

OBA Part 3 - Storing and Reading Data in Word Documents
12 February 09 05:55 PM

In my last few posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for the new Northwind Traders. If you missed them: OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data OBA Part 2 - Building and Outlook Client against LOB Data In this post I'm Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office, Data, ADO.NET Data Services, SharePoint, OBA

OBA Part 2 - Building an Outlook Client against LOB Data
07 February 09 02:36 PM

In the last couple posts we've been talking about an Office Business Application (OBA) architecture for the new Northwind Traders and how to expose line-of-business (LOB) data , in our case the Northwind SQL database, using ADO.NET Data Services . Today Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 9 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Office, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO, OBA

OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data
03 February 09 02:23 PM

Last post I talked about the high-level architecture of our O ffice B usiness A pplication for the new Northwind Traders. There are a lot of different architecture options to consider when building an OBA. OBA is all about using Microsoft Office with Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 11 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Data, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, OBA

Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8
02 February 09 07:09 PM

The last week I've been working with a couple teammates on an Office Business Application (OBA) demonstration we wanted to put together for TechReady 8. TechReady is an internal conference we deliver to the field employees. It's my first one and so far Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 18 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, DevCenter, Office, Data, ADO.NET Data Services, VS2010, VSTO, SharePoint, OBA