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A developers roadmap to building professional office based solutions

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This was a presentation that Ty Anderson made at TechEd North America on May 18, 2011 in Atlanta, GA, and at SharePoint TechFest on May 19, 2011 in Irving, TX. For more information, please see more about Cogent at www.cogentcompany.com. For demo videos, please contact us at info@cogentcompany.com.

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A Developer’s Roadmap to Building Professional Office-based Solutions

Session Abstract
Provide an understanding of the developer technologies provided by the Office platform and explain when to use each technology.

You will leave here with an understanding of when to use Office technologies like Open XML, VSTO, SharePoint Document Services (Word, Excel, Visio), SharePoint REST API & Client Object Model, Business Connectivity Services, etc., and how to build them.
This is a fast-paced talk intent on giving you, the professional developer, an understanding of the tools you need to begin incorporating the Office platform into your solutions.

Session Objectives And Takeaways
Session Objective(s):

Learn how new features and tools tie together the Microsoft Office solution stack

Key Takeaways:

Understand the Office platform architecture and its benefits
Understand your solution development options on the Office Platform

Overview of Office Developer Platform

Client TechnologiesDecision Matrix

Server TechnologiesDecision Matrix
Yes
Yes but…needs
some explaining

Data Access TechnologiesDecision Matrix
Yes
Yes but why would
You given the other
Available options

Demo #1: VSTO

Demo #2:SharePoint Data Access

Demo #3: Open XML

Demo #4: SharePoint Document Services

Demo #5:BCS

Resources and Next Steps
Blogs
Ty Anderson: http://officedeveloper.net
Beth Massi : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/
VSTO Team: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/
John Durant: http://blogs.msdn.com/johnrdurant
Gray Knowlton: http://technet.msdn.com/gray_knowlton
Ty’s List of Office Developer Tools
http://officedeveloper.net/toolbox
Office Developer Atlas Training tool
http://bit.ly/OfficeAtlas
Office Developer Map
http://bit.ly/OfficeDevMap
MSDN Office Developer Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office
Office 2010 Developer Center
http://microsoft.com/office2010dev
SharePoint Developer Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint

Tools & Downloads
Office 2010 Training Kit
http://bit.ly/OfficeTK
SharePoint 2010 Training Kit
http://bit.ly/SP_TK
Open XML SDK
http://bit.ly/OpenXMLSDK
SharePoint 2010 SDK
http://bit.ly/SP_2010_SDK