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| Introduction | |
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| Who This Book Is For | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Resources on Microsoft.com | |
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| Blogs | |
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| Companion Content | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| Setting Up and Logging On to the VPC | |
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| Support for This Book | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Getting Started with Office Business Applications | |
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| What Is an Office Business Application? | |
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| Platform Capabilities | |
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| OBA Services | |
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| Attributes of an Office Business Application | |
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| How OBAs Extend the Development Paradigm | |
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| Major Components of an Office Business Application | |
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| Client Tier Considerations | |
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| Middle Tier Considerations | |
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| Data Tier Considerations | |
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| Developer Tools | |
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| OBA Application Patterns | |
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| Office Applications as a Reach Channel | |
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| Document Generation | |
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| Intelligent Documents | |
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| Complementary Document Workflow | |
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| Discovery Navigation Pattern | |
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| Collaborative Site Pattern | |
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| Composite User Interface Pattern | |
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| Application-Generated Tasks and Notifications | |
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| Sample Office Business Application: From Budget File to Budgeting Application | |
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| What's Next | |
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| Managing and Automating the Budget Approval Process | |
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| Building Your OBA | |
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| Creating the Excel Budget Template | |
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| Customizing the Ribbon | |
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| Customized Actions Pane | |
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| Adding Events to the Custom Ribbon | |
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| Adding Events to the Actions Pane | |
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| The Completed Budget Template | |
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| Building the SharePoint Budget Dashboard | |
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| Integrating a Content Type in a Document Library | |
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| Key Performance Indicators | |
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| Excel Services | |
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| Using the Business Data Catalog | |
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| Creating the SharePoint Workflow | |
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| Summary | |
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| Managing Sales Forecasting with an Office Business Application | |
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| Solution Architecture | |
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| Sales Forecasting Solution Walk-Through | |
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| Sales Portal Dashboard | |
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| The Business Data Catalog | |
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| Content Types | |
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| Creating the Custom Ribbon | |
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| Document Actions Task Pane | |
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| Workflow | |
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| Programming Against the New Open XML File Formats | |
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| Open XML Benefits | |
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| Open XML Abstraction with VSTO | |
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| Summary | |
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| Provisioning and Securing a Virtual Learning Workspace | |
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| Building the VLW Workflow Activities | |
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| Activities for Creating and Deleting Sites | |
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| Set Permission Classification Workflow | |
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| Appending Data with an Event Receiver | |
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| Provisioning Site and Security Objects Through a Feature Receiver | |
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| Viewing and Changing Active Directory Information Through a SharePoint Web Part | |
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| Defining a Content Type and Feature | |
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| Submitting Assignments: The VLW Solution's Application Page | |
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| Summary | |
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| Creating a Statement of Work with Open XML Formats | |
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| Building the Statement of Work Schema, Input Form, and Document Templates | |
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| Creating an InfoPath 2007 Form for Data Input | |
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| Creating the Statement of Work Office Word 2007 Template | |
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| Creating the Statement of Work Presentation Template | |
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| Using the Statement of Work API | |
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| Extending the StatementOfWork Class | |
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| Field Handlers | |
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| Examining IWordWriter | |
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| The Trouble with Tables | |
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| Building the Statement of Work Office Word 2007 Document | |
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| Examining IPlaceHolder | |
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| The SOWDocument Class | |
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| Integrating the Statement of Work API with a SharePoint Form Library | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sales Force Automation | |
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| Business Process and Solution Background | |
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| Working with Customer and Opportunity Data in Outlook | |
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| Creating a Sales Quote in Office Word 2007 | |
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| Sales Quote Approval Workflow | |
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| Architecture of the Sales Force Automation Solution | |
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| Designing and Implementing the SFA Solution | |
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| Developing the Office Outlook 2007 Add-in | |
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| CRM Data Synchronization | |
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| Developing the Office Word 2007 Add-in | |
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| The Quote Approval SharePoint Workflow | |
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| Designing the Workflow | |
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| Designing an Office InfoPath 2007 Task Form | |
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| Taking Advantage of Visual Studio 2008 and VSTO 2008 | |
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| Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET | |
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| VSTO 2008 Document-Level Customization for Office Word 2007 | |
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| WPF and Windows Forms Controls in Outlook Form Regions | |
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| ClickOnce Deployment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Business Intelligence: A Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics OBA | |
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| Walk-Through of the Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics OBA | |
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| Software and Hardware Requirements for the Plant Floor VPC | |
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| Setting Up and Logging On to the VPC | |
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| Operational Monitoring: Exploring the Shift Foreman's Portal | |
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| Tactical Analytics: Exploring the Plant Manager's Portal | |
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| Strategic Insight: Exploring the Vice President's Portal | |
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| Solution Architecture Overview | |
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| Data Tier Architecture | |
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| Exploring the Data Tier | |
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| Application Services Tier Architecture | |
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| Exploring the Application Services Tier | |
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| Productivity Tier Architecture | |
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| Exploring the Productivity Tier | |
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| Presentation Tier Architecture | |
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| Other Architectural Concerns | |
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| Systems and Data Integration | |
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| Security | |
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| Scalability and Availability | |
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| Summary | |
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| Index | |