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Developer Productivity Improvements with

Visual Studio 2008 and Office Business Applications

What Will We cover?

Overview of Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)ArchitectureNew built in add-ins

Level 300

Helpful Experience

Developing Visual Studio ApplicationsMicrosoft Office and Office Business Applications

Agenda

Office As A Developer PlatformThe “Results Gap” with LOB AppsOffice Business ApplicationsVSTO Overview

SharePoint WorkFlow ToolsRibbon DevelopmentCustom Task PaneClickOnce Deployment

Office as a Developer Platform

Familiar user interface500+ million users worldwideOffice Open XML file formatsMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Enabling collaborationPortalsEnterprise searchEnterprise content managementBusiness process supportBI delivery platform

Agenda

Office As A Developer PlatformThe “Results Gap” with LOB AppsOffice Business ApplicationsVSTO Overview

SharePoint WorkFlow ToolsRibbon DevelopmentCustom Task PaneClickOnce Deployment

LOB Apps

The “Results Gap”

LOB Apps

OfficeBusiness

Applications

Agenda

Office As A Developer PlatformThe “Results Gap” with LOB AppsOffice Business ApplicationsVSTO Overview

SharePoint WorkFlow ToolsRibbon DevelopmentCustom Task PaneClickOnce Deployment

Estimate custom design

Unstructured

CreateLead

Qualified?

RetireLead

CreateOppt’y

CreateQuote

Closed? CompleteSale

Create Invoice

Get specs from customer

Validate specs with Tech Sales

Cost out the solution

Decide discount strategy

Assemble proposed response

Approve proposed response

Structured

“Classic” Enterprise Applications

Office Business Applications

Estimate custom design

Unstructured

Office SharePoint Server

Word Excel Outlook InfoPath

• Document-level code behind• Brings Microsoft Office into the managed world• Strict security model

• Custom ActionsPane• Host Controls on doc

surface• Cached Data in the

document• Server-side data

processing• App-level add-ins for

Outlook

VSTO 2008 • New designers: ribbon, custom task pane, Outlook form region

• App-level add-ins for most client programs• ClickOnce deployment and security• VBA/VSTO interoperability• Workflow & Microsoft SharePoint support• VSTO integral part of Visual Studio 2008

Professional

VSTO 2005&

VSTO 2005 SE

VSTO 2003

Visual Studio Tools for Office

Office Applications

Visual Studio 2008 Professional includes Visual Studio Tools for OfficeVisual designers for Ribbon, Task & Action pane, SharePoint WorkflowIntegrated Workflow & Microsoft SharePoint SupportData binding in Word Content ControlsApplication-level add-ins for most client programs (both 2003 & 2007)Document-level add-ins for Excel & Word 2007Improved deployment and security using ClickOnce

Agenda

Office As A Developer PlatformThe “Results Gap” with LOB AppsOffice Business ApplicationsVSTO Overview

SharePoint WorkFlow ToolsCustom Task PaneRibbon DevelopmentClickOnce Deployment

SharePoint Workflow Tools

What is a workflow?A reliable repeatable pattern of activity enabled by a systematic organization of resources and information flows E.g. Document approval process

Workflow Foundation (WF) integrated

Programming model, engine and tools to build workflow enabled applicationsConsists of a Microsoft .NET Framework v3.0 (formerly WinFX)

SharePoint Workflow Tools

VSTO vs. SharePoint DesignerLimited reusability

Develop, deploy, and debug SharePoint workflows

“Simple F5 Experience“

Focus on your business logic right away

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Creating A SharePoint WorkFlow

Custom Task Pane

Adds custom functionalityDynamically set properties

Show/Hide, dock position

Responds to event handlersOn hide, on show, on data bind

To create a Custom Task Pane,Create UserControl for UI and functionalityAdd UserControl to CustomTaskPaneCollection

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Building a custom Task Pane

Ribbon Development

Office has built-in support for XML-based customization modelVSTO 2005 SE support:

Simplifies hookup from .NET via pre-generated classes and sample XML

VSTO 2008 support: Adds full-blown visual designer support“Export to XML” optionA more robust programming layer

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Building a custom Ribbon

ClickOnce Deployment

Two competing goals in application development

Interactive, stateful, rich client applicationThin client application model

ClickOnce deployment overcomes:

Difficulties in updating applicationsImpact to the user’s computerSecurity permissions

ClickOnce Deployment

Three ways to publish a ClickOnce application

From a Web page, network share, media

ClickOnce applications are self-updatingClickOnce applications are isolated and self-contained.

Cannot break existing applications

ClickOnce Deployment

Feature ClickOnce Windows Installer

Installation-time user interface Single prompt Multipart Wizard

Installation of assemblies on demand

Yes No

Installation of shared files No Yes

Installation of drivers No Yes(with custom

actions)

Installation of GAC No Yes

Installation for multiple users No Yes

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Setting Up ClickOnce Deployment

Session Summary

Office as a develop platform

Office business applications bridges the “Results Gap”

Visual Studio Tools for OfficeSharePoint Workflow

Custom Task Pane

Ribbon Development

ClickOnce Deployment

For More Information

Office Developer Centerhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905533.aspx

VSTO Bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/vsto

MSDN Web sitemsdn.microsoft.com