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OBA Sample Application Kit for SAP & Siebel Released to Web

Over the past few months, we’ve received some very positive feedback on the OBA Sample Application Kits that we’ve released. Well, today we release to web the latest in the family of kits, the OBA Sample Application Kit for SAP & Siebel . Included Read More...

Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 10:57 PM by Steve Fox | 0 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, OBAs, OBA, Outlook Addin, Outlook OBA, OBA Sample Application Kit, Custom Outlook Form Region, MSDN, Advanced OBA

End-to-End Sales Forecast OBA Released To Web!

It's been a while, but I wanted to let all you OBA developers out there know of something cool that we recently released, which is the End-to-End (E2E) Sales Forecast OBA. As you know from reading this blog, you know that OBA is an Office Business Application Read More...

Posted Saturday, October 25, 2008 3:28 AM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, Steve Fox, OBAs, OBA, Custom Outlook Form Region, OFR, SharePoint development, SharePoint, MSDN

Use Silverlight to Enhance your SharePoint-Based OBAs with the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint

Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint Released to CodePlex! Today we released the source code for the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint—based on the Silverlight Beta 2 release. The Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint provide a way for developers Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:00 PM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBAs, OBA, SharePoint development, SharePoint, MSDN, Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint, Silverlight

Create Your First OBA: Part 5

Hey gang, It's been a while since I've posted, but I've been on the road. I attended TechEd 2008 (USA), our internal field conference TechReady 7, and then travelled to South Africa to TechEd 2008 (S. Africa). Now, I'm back in Seattle--albeit a little Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:29 PM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, OBAs, OBA, Your First OBA, Your First Office Business Application, SharePoint development, SharePoint, MSDN, Web service, Business Data Catalog, BDC

Create Your First OBA: Part 4

Wow, it's been a while since I blogged on this...time flies. If you've been following along with my previous posts, you'll have seen some of the other Create Your First OBA posts. Here they are if you haven’t seen them: 1. Creating the VSTO document-level Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:17 AM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBAs, OBA, Your First OBA, Your First Office Business Application, SharePoint development, SharePoint, MSDN

Attachment(s): VSTO2008HOL.zip.zip

Interesting OBA Blog on DITA...

A colleague sent this to me today...thought it was interesting, so I thought I'd pass along to you all. http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmullinax/archive/2008/06/17/democratizing-dita-dita-exchange-and-danish-beer-20-questions-with-steffen-frederiksen-of-content-technologies.aspx Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:14 AM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, OBAs, OBA, SharePoint

Create Your First OBA: Part 3

Hey gang, If you've been following along with the Create Your First OBA series, I've published the first two of the six parts - see below. 1. Creating the VSTO document-level solution (i.e. the custom document) ; 2. Deploying the VSTO document-level solution Read More...

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 10:14 PM by Steve Fox | 3 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, OBAs, OBA, Outlook OBA, Your First OBA, Your First Office Business Application

The OBA Sample Application Kits

Just a quick post to check out the OBA Sample Application for Kits MSDN page. The kits provide comprehensive guidance on how to integrate Office with SAP and PeopleSoft (and we'll have others in the future). The kits include whitepaper, install guide, Read More...

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 9:07 PM by Steve Fox | 4 Comments

Filed under: Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, Steve Fox, OBAs, OBA, OBA Sample Application Kit

Conference Follow-Up Post

Over the past few weeks, I've attended and presented at a number of conferences (specifically VSLive, MS CSAF, Collaborate, and DevConnections) and had some great conversations with attendees who were seeking more information or had questions in the sessions Read More...

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 8:41 PM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, OBAs, OBA, Outlook Addin, Outlook OBA, OFR

Create Your First OBA: Part 1

Last week I attended VSLive and promised to post some of the sample code (I emphasize demo code J ) I discussed at the conference. Specifically, in the couple of sessions that I did I discussed SharePoint integration with Word (showing a lightweight OBA) Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:07 AM by Steve Fox | 3 Comments

Filed under: Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, OBAs, OBA, Outlook OBA

Attachment(s): OBA_PPT_For_Blog_Part1.zip

Your Second Outlook Add-in

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a custom task pane that hosted a user control data bound to an external data source. The control enabled you to browse data and then create a sales contact with the currently selected record. Vaguely interesting, Read More...

Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 2:52 PM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Office Development, OBA platform, OBAs, OBA, Outlook Addin, Outlook OBA, Custom Outlook Form Region, OFR

Integrate Office with SAP...

You may have heard of Duet, an out of the box OBA that supports a number of different scenarios for the enterprise ( http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/duet/FX101686211033.aspx?ofcresset=1 ). Duet is a great solution and covers a wide variety of scenarios. Read More...

Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 2:17 PM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, OBAs, OBA, OBA Sample Application Kit

Your First Outlook Add-in...

I just finished a private technical briefing and during the session showed a few demos. Many of the attendees asked me to share the code, so I thought I'd post to my blog to get my butt in gear and actually post some useful stuff and get the code up here Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:47 PM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, Steve Fox, OBAs, OBA, Outlook Addin, Your First Outlook Add-in, Outlook OBA

Attachment(s): OutlookProjectIDE.bmp

The ramblings continue...starting out on OBA

It's been a while since I've blogged last, and things have been very busy. Over the past three months, I've been to a number of conferences including the most recent Office Developer Conference and SharePoint Conference. It was great to see more OBA-centric Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:34 PM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, Steve Fox, OBAs, OBA

The ramblings begin...

Well it's December 13th, and I have not really started my Holiday shopping yet...how sad is that. But alas, I'm sure you're not tuning into this blog to hear about the lameness of my shopping habits, but you're probably looking for a little info on this Read More...

Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 12:07 AM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments