Office Business Applications (OBA) Team Blog : office development

OBA Sample Application Kits available now!

khawara — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:46:00 GMT

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 an end-to-end OBA;

2. Installation guide;

3. Solution walkthrough; and

4. Technical overview document.

The kits are a free download and can be found at:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cc442491.aspx

- Khawar

ODC2008 content published!

khawara — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:01:00 GMT

ODC2008 presentations, keynotes and news are now published externally!

You can access these by going to www.obacentral.com and clicking on the ODC2008 tab, or directly via the link below:

https://www.obacentral.com/ODC/Default.aspx

- Khawar

Open XML SDK Roadmap

khawara — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:56:00 GMT

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.aspx

- Khawar

Soma's blog post on Office development and Visual Studio

khawara — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:50:00 GMT

Soma Somasegar (VP, dev div) posted an interesting post on Office development recently. Here's the link:

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/01/30/integrating-business-systems-with-office-and-sharepoint.aspx

- Khawar

New OBA book now available!

khawara — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:13:00 GMT

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 Office system as a development platform.

Check it out at: 6 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Available online via www.amazon.com and other online bookstores.

Incidentally, many of the authors are presenting at the upcoming ODC 2008 so a great opportunity to meet them in person, network with fellow techies, and do a deep dive on the technical aspects covered in the book.

- Khawar

Update: 2008 Office Developer Conference is only 18 work days away!

khawara — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:35:00 GMT

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:

By the way,Hugh MacLeod of "Blue Monster" fame just confirmed he'll be at the conference. More here.

- Khawar

New OBA eLearning Content on OBA Central

khawara — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:28:00 GMT

We recently went live with some new content on OBA Central to make learning about OBAs easier.

You can check out the new Silverlight based OBA elearning modules on www.obacentral.com via the following link:

https://www.obacentral.com/eLearning/default.aspx

As well, OBA Central has licensed various chapters from Apress books that will be made available free to of charge via the elearning portal. Some are posted already and more to come every few weeks, so check back often.

BTW, if you are really interested in in-depth learning about OBAs and SharePoint, register now for the Office Developer Conference 2008! Only 5 weeks before the conference starts...

- Khawar