This document provides an overview of using WPF and VSTO to build Office Business Applications. Key points include leveraging the richness of WPF controls in Office solutions, tools for designing and developing such as Visual Studio and Expression Blend, and how VSTO enables connecting Office documents to live business data and providing deeper integration with features like the Document Actions task pane. A variety of sample applications and controls are also demonstrated.

1. Overview WPF offers desktop richness and integration Leverages Past and Current Operating Systems Rich Array of Controls Great developer tools Today we live in a world where Office Business Applications are a reality. “OBAs” as they are affectionately called are custom applicatons built in .net that leverage all the goodness of the office plumbing.

2. Client Value Props WPF anchors client continuum with desktop richness and integration Desktop integration Hardware acceleration Full trust and Interop Full offline Full .NET Framework Completeness (globalization, accessibility, security, input, printing etc) RAD for Windows innovation

3. Client Value Props Visual Designers and a design time experience Along with traditional office support we have Windows Workflow and SharePoint support Data binding and xml schema support in terms of word content controls.

4. Client Value Props Add-ins for almost the entire office stack. Document centric solutions for word and excel. Much improved help in terms of deployment and security

5. Windows 7 Synergy and Light Up Touch and Multi-Touch Taskbar Ribbon Common Dialogs More… Use these with .NET XAML in WPF

7. RadioButton

8. RepeatButton

9. Etc.

10. Slider

11. ProgressBar

12. CheckBox

13. Etc.

14. ListBox

15. ListView

16. ComboBox

17. TreeView

18. Etc.

19. StackPanel

20. DockPanel

21. WrapPanel

22. ViewBox

23. Grid

24. Etc.

25. Menu

26. ContextMenu

27. ToolBar

28. ToolBarTray

29. StatusBar

30. ScrollBar

31. TabControl

32. Tooltip

33. Popup

34. Expander

35. Etc.

36. TextBox

37. TextBlock

38. RichTextBox

39. Label

40. DocumentViewer

41. FlowDocumentReader

42. FlowDocumentPageViewer

43. InkCanvas

44. InkPresenter

45. Etc.

46. Image

47. MediaElement

48. Etc.WPF Controls

49. Great Developer Tools Designers – Expression Blend Developers - Visual Studio 2008

50. Custom Email Extensions Customize an email message Populate the charts using eBay back-end services

51. Program workflow into Outlook WPF Controls can create sophositicated interfaces

52. Sample Excel OBA Code x

53. Office Client Development with VSTO 2Common Application Models OM OM Document-Centric Solutions MyCode MyTaskPane Office Application Solutions (Add-In) MyMenu MyCode

54. Product Team Blogs Eric Carter: .NET4Office http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/ Peter Torr: Office Development, Security, Randomness… http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/ Eric Lippert: Fabulous Adventures in Coding http://blogs.msdn.com/EricLippert Paul Stubbs: Office Development with .NET http://blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs/ VSTO Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/

55. Newsgroups VSTO microsoft.public.vsnet.vstools.office MSDN Forums: VSTO http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=16&SiteID=1.

56. Additional Information MSDN Developer Centers VS.NET and Office Development http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/office/ Office Development http://msdn.microsoft.com/office Hands-on Labs for VSTO 2005 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f2323aaf-fe87-4203-9ed8-72466566e105&displaylang=en VSTO 2005 Web casts http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/multimedia/default.aspx

57. Resources VSTO Forum http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=16 VSTO-related blogs VSTO-related Blog Search – http://search.live.com/macros/pstubbs/vsto Office Zealot Site – http://www.officezealot.com/VSTO/bloghome.aspx

58. For More Information Visit the VSTO Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/tool/vsto/default.aspx VSTO Help documentation on MSDN http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/d2tx7z6d(en-us,vs.80).aspx

59. Data Caching - Performance Why cache data in an Office document? Cached data can be bound to the Office document and displayed at runtime Cached data can be used when offline Cached data is server-accessible Cached data can store non-UI data needed by your solution VSTO support for data caching CachedAttribute is used to annotate fields that should be cached ICachedType can be implemented by a type to provide custom serialization ServerDocument class can be used to open a document without instantiating Word/Excel

60. VSTO Security Model Based 100% on .NET Code Access Security By default, no code runs Trusted assembly ≠ Local machine Trust via signing the assemblies Authenticode or Strong name Can also trust via location-based evidence Must also trust the document Trusted document = Local machine Temporary Internet files not trusted

61. Sample User Interfaces

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64. Sample User Interfaces

65. Sample User Interfaces

66. Sample User Interfaces

67. Sample User Interfaces

68. How to’s http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb772076(VS.100).aspx Demo Code / Examples http://fieldcontent/Field%20Content%20Pages/SessionDetails.aspx?fcfilter=Developer&ID=1198

69. Summary VSTO is the key enabler for the .NET stack to build Office Business Applications Connect documents to live business data Provide structure using XML Schemas Provide deeper UI integration using the Document Actions task pane VSTO is the tool of choice for professional developers creating Add-ins & document-centric solutions for the Office Stack Integrated design-time experience Developer productivity through programming model enhancements All the power of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework