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Interop Between VBA and Visual Studio Office Solutions (VSTO)
05 November 09 09:03 PM
Couple weeks ago when I was in Holland speaking at SDC an attendee asked me how he could call methods in an Office solution (VSTO) from VBA functions defined in a document and vice versa. I thought I’d follow up with a post on how to do this, but first Read More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ADO.NET Data Services - Building an Excel Client
22 January 09 10:46 PM
Last few posts I've been building a WPF client against ADO.NET Data Services, if you missed them: Using ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Data Services - Building a WPF Client ADO.NET Data Services - Enforcing FK Associations and a Fix for Deleting Entities Read More...
ADO.NET Data Services - Intercepting Queries and Adding Validation
21 January 09 08:53 PM
Last few posts I've been building a WPF client against ADO.NET Data Services, if you missed them: Using ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Data Services - Building a WPF Client ADO.NET Data Services - Enforcing FK Associations and a Fix for Deleting Entities Read More...
ADO.NET Data Services - Building a WPF Client
15 January 09 08:30 PM
In my last post I introduced ADO.NET Data Services and how you can easily expose your data model via RESTful services that support the basic CRUD (Create,Retrieve,Update,Delete) operations. Basic CRUD database operations map well to the familiar HTTP Read More...
Using ADO.NET Data Services
09 January 09 07:52 PM
This week I worked through a good article on getting started with ADO.NET Data Services (a.k.a Astoria) called Using ADO.NET Data Services . If you're not familiar with the technology it's basically a framework for exposing your data models via RESTful Read More...
Channel 9 Interview: ADO.NET Data Services in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
21 October 08 01:17 PM
In this interview Saaid Kahn, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team (and former member of the VB Team), shows us how to create an n-tier application against a database using ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and an Entity Data Model, both Read More...

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