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PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK content from TechEd

Wade Dorrell — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:19:00 GMT

Here's the sample code and slides I showed about the PerformancePoint SDK at TechEd.

A couple notes:

The build OutputDir and xcopy post-build steps assume default locations for PerformancePoint assemblies, the Monitoring Web Service, and SharePoint :80 web application, as discussed in the BIN08-TLC slides. Please take a look and make sure they're right for your environment.
To get the samples working you'll need to alter the *.config files. See config-readme.txt for details. Let me know if you need help, I think this is the trickiest part.
If you want to use the "Live Search"-based custom data source implementation, please apply for your own Live Search application ID and insert it in SearchDataSourceProvider.cs. (It'll take about 15 minutes for the application ID to become active; until then feel free to use mine.)

Thanks!

Wade Dorrell — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:47:38 GMT

To everyone who attended my sessions and whom I talked to at TechEd 08: thank you! I got some of the PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK feedback I was looking for, both during the sessions, and especially in follow-on talks. I hope they, and the other breakouts and other sessions you attended were valuable. I will personally guarantee (and in fact you win a Zune 4GB if you prove me wrong) that you now more about the PerformancePoint SDK than 98% of the attendees.

I'll have the code samples for "KPI Detail Report" and "(Live) Search Data Source Provider" posted soon. I'm tweaking the path dependencies such that they work on any machine where PerformancePoint Monitoring is installed/configured, not just my VPC... with all the killer discussion, demoing, and learning going on, and the usual side conversations with Leif about Windows Media Center... I haven't gotten as far on that as I planned.

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PerformancePoint 2007 SDK at TechEd!

Wade Dorrell — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:17:58 GMT

I'll be facilitating 2 chalk-talks/Q&As in the TLC Interactive Theatre (small audience) at Tech·Ed 2008 Developers about PerformancePoint:

BIN03-TLC "Navigating the Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 SDK"
June 3 3:00PM-4:15PM
Green Theater 2

BIN08-TLC "Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007: Custom Data Connectors and Report Types"
June 5 8:30AM-9:45AM
Green Theater 2

The first is going to be very high level. We want to give you a feel for what's possible with the SDK and to give you time to get SDK-specific questions answered & to get your feedback. Please let us know what scenarios we should add/tune up for the next version! If time allows, I'll show you a few samples that might get you thinking, including a KPI detail report, and a search keyword data source, and a KPI syndication solution. I'd mostly like to talk with those of you who are using the SDK, so please plan attend the 2nd session instead/also if you want deeper dive demos.

The second session will be a "show me the code"-type session, on the KPI detail report & keyword data source, tuned for those who have not already tried the SDK. It's at 8:30AM Eastern... so it'll also be a "show me the coffee"-type session.

Please stop by!