Professional Office Business Application Development Using Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 & Vsto

Office Business Application development is all about leveraging the Office environment and SharePoint to build solutions that integrate large-scale systems such as SAP and PeopleSoft into environments that are familiar to the information worker. The result becomes the integration of key business data, such as Sales data or Finance data, into Office tools that we use every day. That said, this book is about showing developers how they leverage tools like Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to bridge the gap between the business data and the people who need it the most. Specifically using a sales forecast scenario, this book will take the reader on an in-depth journey to learn why these solutions are necessary and how to build and deploy all of the specific components of an end-to-end OBA.




Table of contents :
Introduction
· Anatomy of an Office Business Application
· Architecture Guidance and Design Patterns for Office Business Applications
· Installing and Configuring MOSS
· Customizing the Office Fluent Ribbon and the Task Pane
· Creating and Deploying a Custom MOSS 2007 Workflow Using Visual Studio 2008
· Creating A Custom Outlook Form Region
· Using OpenXML and Business Data
· Adding Business Intelligence through Excel Web Services and Key Performance Indicators
· Integrating the LOB System using the Business Data Catalog, and Extending Search into your LOB System
· Deploying your Client Components
· Deploying and Securing Your OBA Server Components
Appendix A: What’s Next?
Index

Market Description :
Primary audience: Professional developers who work primarily with .NET or SharePoint technologies and have some familiarity with the Office system.
Secondary Audience: Software Development Managers who are looking to understand the OBA model and plan for adopting this application model. It is also for System Engineers who are responsible for configuring SharePoint and need to account for custom content types and BDC integration.

About Author :
Steve Fox has worked for Microsoft as a Technical Program Manager for the better part of a decade, working on a variety of technologies. Included in this list are natural language, search, and Office development. More recently, Steve has been working with developers across the States and Europe to teach them about Office Business Application (OBA) development. In his spare time, Steve reads, writes, and plays hockey. Steve co-authored Seven Office Business Applications and Programming Office Business Applications and is a regular contributor to MSDN.
Bill Sheldon is a principal engineer with InterKnowlogy, a Microsoft MVP for Visual Basic .NET and a contributing editor for SQL Server Magazine. He's coauthor of Professional Visual Basic .NET with .NET 3.0 (Wrox) and an instructor at University of California, San Diego.