1. Daniel N. Egan Microsoft – Developer Evangelist http://www.DotNetDoc.com http://Twitter.com/DanielEgan Building a VSTO application using LINQ

5. Session Objectives And Agenda Walk through of the fundamentals of VSTO development The LINQ how and why Demos, Demos, Demos…

7. Developing on Microsoft Office

8. A unified solutions platform for building Office Business Applications that make line-of-business systems, enterprise data and workflows accessible and relevant to users. Premiere developer tools for developing Office Business Applications and scalable enterprise grade solutions utilizing Visual Studio and Microsoft Office

11. What About VBA?

12. Scenarios Tools Post 2003 N-tier Distributed Apps Complex document add-ins (high reuse) Simple document add-ins (high reuse) Simple document add-ins (low reuse) Macro modify Macro record/replay Advanced app-level add-ins Simple app-level add-ins Application repurposing VBA (as intended) VBA (as applied) Market Gap Tools Pre 2003 Scenarios Complexity

14. Ask These Questions What business problem does this VBA solution address? What parts of this solution, if any, can I leave in VBA? Does it make sense to move this VBA solution to VSTO?

16. VSTO and 2007 Office System

20. Visual Ribbon Designer Property Grid Ribbon Control Toolbox Design Surface

21. Building a VSTO Project

22. Linq “ It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one LINQ at a time.” ~Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) – modified slightly ;)

25. Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) LINQ enabled data sources LINQ To Objects Objects LINQ To XML <book> <title/> <author/> <price/> </book> XML LINQ enabled ADO.NET LINQ To DataSets LINQ To SQL LINQ To Entities Relational Others… VB C# .NET Language-Integrated Query

26. Channel 9 Videos Future of Languages : Anders Hejlsberg, Herb Sutter, Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman http://tinyurl.com/ 513778

27. Linq Query Syntax “ Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.” ~John Steinbeck

28. Linq Syntax – Why we started where we did var query = dc.Recipes .W here (r => r.Title.Contains( “Chocolate” ) ) .S elect (r => new{ r .Title, r.NumberOfServings}) ; Extension methods Lambda expressions Object initializers Anonymous types Implicitly Declared Local Variables Extension methods

38. Defining the Data Model Classes

41. Adding LINQ to our VSTO App

46. Event IDs for Template Session Title Text Message Keyword (send to 95495) SQL Roadshow TuesAOne MSDN: What’s New for Developers: Highlights from PDC TuesATwo Partner: Microsoft Licensing and Solution Update TuesBOne TechNet: Windows Vista, Powershell and Group Policy WedsAOne MSDN: SQL 2008, VSTO, Silverlight 2.0 WedsATwo SB2 at TS2: Solution Building for System Builders TS2 Partner Event: SBS/EBS, Response Point VoIP, and S+S! WedsBOne WedsBtwo TechNet: Virtualization and Enterprise Search ThursAOne MSDN: The Role of the Architect: Today and in the Future ThursATwo Momentum: Solution Briefing for IT and Business Executives ThursBOne Momentum Supersize Event ThursBTwo Dynamics ERP Briefing ThursCOne Partner: BPOS Deep Dive ThursCTwo

48. Slides and Demos Slides can be found at: Demo code can be found at: www.DotNetDoc.com