hughpyle

Furthur!

Here's a recap and subject-index of the story so far.

• Getting started with Groove Forms; the component parts (Fields, Forms, Views); a digression about the available fieldtypes; and a real example.  And a hint about scripting in Groove Forms.
• Then a deep dive into some of Groove's synchronization internals.
• Groove Web Services (GWS) overview.  (You'll need the security stuff to actually use it)
• A brief look at the Groove Enterprise Data Bridge, which is a scalable server for Groove Web Services.
• Some GWS code in practice: an Outlook addin, which can enumerate Groove identities and workspaces, and tools within a workspace.
• How to identify Forms tools, and how to differentiate your Forms tool from others.
• Reading and writing Groove Forms data using the Web Services APIs.
• The beginnings of a wider story, of how Groove Forms and Web Services can be used to deliver useful context to virtual workgroups in the field.

That's where we'll pick up, later.  Meanwhile: have fun, and I hope to see you at PDC next week.  My presentation is "OFF303: Groove: Building Enterprise Workgroup Applications", and it's on Tuesday, September 13 2:45 PM in room 406 AB.   The session abstract, surprisingly enough, is just about the same as the material I've covered here to date.  I'll be bringing lots of code, plenty of customer stories, and as open a mind as I can muster. Then we'll jump off from there.

This session covers the architecture and design of Groove applications connected to enterprise systems. We show how to use the Groove Forms tool to build collaborative applications with the Groove client, and take apart a custom C# application that uses the Groove Web Services to connect Groove workspaces and Groove Forms data into an enterprise process.

See you at PDC!