Office Business Applications (OBA) Team Blog : sharepoint development

New Excel 2007/Excel Services article published!

khawara — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:13:00 GMT

Scot Hillier (Microsoft MVP) and Bhushan Nene just published an article titled “Building Excel 2007 and Excel Services Dashboards by Consuming Two-Dimensional Data from Web Services”. The article shows how to develop a solution to consume web services in Excel and Excel Services to build dynamic dashboards. The highlight of this solution is its ability to maintain the mapping between Excel objects and web services so that Excel and Excel Services workbooks can be refreshed on demand to show latest data. Excel and Excel Services support such functionality for SQL Server and SQL Analysis Services but there is no out-of-box support for web services.

- 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

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