Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System : OBA

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VSTO Team — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:09:00 GMT

The Visual Studio Tools for Office team has moved to http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto , and the RSS feed is http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/rss.xml. We've got a lot more team members set up to blog over there so come on over and join us!

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Office Development Screencasts on Channel 9

Building Office Business Applications

VSTO Team — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:47:00 GMT

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Duration 19:02
Size 13.5 MB

Joanna Bichsel from the Office Platform Strategy team joins Steve Fox to talk about how and why to build OBAs, including lessons learned from building a sales forecasting application using SharePoint, Excel, Word, SQL Server, and the Visual Studio Tools for Office ServerDocument features.

Related links:

OBA central

Office Business Applications Developer Portal

Joanna's blog

OBA/VSTO Starter Kit v. 1.0 Ships

VSTO Team — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:48:00 GMT

Many of you may have heard about Office Business Applications, or OBAs. If not, OBAs are essentially composite applications that you can build using the Microsoft Office 2007 system. Part of the goal of OBAs is to also integrate with LOB systems, such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Dynamics to extend the power of the Office suite to enterprise systems. To learn more about OBAs and to find additional resources, take a look at this site: http://www.microsoft.com/isv/Oba.mspx.

As part of an effort to help developers extend office programmatically, we recently released an OBA/VSTO Starter Kit v.1.0 that shows developers how you can build an OBA that integrates SAP with Office 2007 using VSTO. The kit provides an overview whitepaper, installation documentation and source code to help you, the developer, understand how you can build composite applications using VSTO. These key deliverables are posted here:

1. OBA/VSTO Starter Kit v. 1.0 Whitepaper: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb498190.aspx

2. OBA/VSTO Starter Kit v. 1.0 Installation Document: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb498189.aspx

3. OBA/VSTO Starter Kit v. 1.0 Source Code: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=120AAAA8-0A0C-4A0B-B605-4E08FFE7A786&displaylang=en

I hope you find this kit useful.

Steve Fox

Program Manager

OBAs and Office UI customization

VSTO Team — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:09:00 GMT

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Duration 20:50
Size 15 MB

Steve Fox and Paul Stubbs talk about Office Business Applications (OBAs) and customizing the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.

MSDN Magazine article by Steve and Paul: New VSTO Features Help You Customize Word And Outlook

Paul Stubbs's blog

What is OBA?

VSTO Team — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:44:00 GMT

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Duration 7:59
Size 7.5 MB

Steve Fox and Paul Stubbs talk about what Office Business Applications are, and how they relate to VSTO.

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