Professional Office Business Application Development

Office Business Application (OBA) development is new and growing at a rapid pace as large companies discover its importance. This book provides you with insight into how organizations can leverage OBA. You’ll go on an in-depth journey to learning how to use various tools to bridge the gap between business data and the people who need it. Plus, you’ll gain an extensive understanding on building and deploying OBA via a common scenario and that is broken down so that you can learn each component.

Market_Desc: 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. Special Features: · Hot Topic in a Quickly Growing Market: Office Business Application development relies heavily on SharePoint 2007, which is the fastest growing server product in Microsoft s history, and OBA development is new and is continuing to grow as large companies are further investigating its importance.· Great Approach to a Complex Topic: This book provides insight into how organizations can leverage the Office client - something that has not been well supported in Microsoft technology before. It brings all of the important details of design, deployment and development together through a common scenario, and will provide an OBA-in-a-Box sample that users can pull down from the web and use for a variety of OBA-specific tasks.· Top Author Candidates: Steve Fox and Bill Sheldon are both well-known influencers in the OBA community, and they will be presenting sessions on OBAs at MS TechEd, DevConnections, TechReady 7, VSLive!, and Oracle OpenWorld - to name just a few. About The Book: 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.

Experienced author Ty Anderson cuts to the chase in explaining how professional Microsoft Office 2007 solution developers get the job done. Ty is a professional Microsoft application developer working each and every day with the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) technology, and his real–world experience will teach you exactly what you need to know to excel in your professional development career. Pro Office 2007 Development with VSTO takes you far beyond traditional Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming, showing you how to transform Microsoft Office 2007 into a complete enterprise application development platform. By the end of the book, you will be creating your own powerful, customized Office business applications (OBAs), using the techniques Ty has taught you throughout. The author demonstrates how to leverage all aspects of the Microsoft Office application platform (covering Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and InfoPath) so you can create OBAs that increase information worker productivity, unlock business data stored in documents, reduce end–user training costs, increase developer productivity, and reduce IT operations costs. This book takes you beyond the basics of VSTO with expert topics such as automation with the Office application object models and includes detailed examples throughout.

This book takes a practical problem-solution approach to common business challenges. You’ll not only encounter interesting code samples, but also see how to combine these examples with the Microsoft collaboration platform’s services. The book’s solutions focus on using Visual Studio 2008 and its built-in Office development tools to construct the user interface layer. And solutions can interact with SharePoint as a service provider, taking advantage of SharePoint’s many collaboration features like document repositories, collaboration sites, and search functions. This book is unique because it starts with challenges that end users deal with every day when using the Microsoft collaboration platform to support business processes. The solutions are presented as hypothetical business challenges of a fictional company. By presenting the examples in this context, author Ed Hild makes it easier to relate to the challenges and solution value. The goal of these examples is to build applications that apply the benefits of the Office desktop interface to the richness of SharePoint collaboration features. This book will help you develop real-world solutions to complex business problems and challenges.

Create applications for all major smartphone platforms Creating applications for the myriad versions and varieties of mobile phone platforms on the market can be daunting to even the most seasoned developer. This authoritative guide is written in such as way that it takes your existing skills and experience and uses that background as a solid foundation for developing applications that cross over between platforms, thereby freeing you from having to learn a new platform from scratch each time. Concise explanations walk you through the tools and patterns for developing for all the mobile platforms while detailed steps walk you through setting up your development environment for each platform. Covers all the major options from native development to web application development Discusses major third party platform development acceleration tools, such as Appcelerator and PhoneGap Zeroes in on topics such as developing applications for Android, IOS, Windows Phone 7, and Blackberry Professional Mobile Cross Platform Development shows you how to best exploit the growth in mobile platforms, with a minimum of hassle.

Pro Office 365 Development, Second Edition, is a practical, hands-on guide to building applications for the cloud with Office 365. Combine Office 365 features out of the box with custom code to make the most of what this increasingly powerful and flexible platform has to offer. As an Office 365 developer, you have an amazing range of technologies at your fingertips. Build custom SharePoint apps in Visual Studio using HTML5, CSS, and jQuery. Create declarative workflow applications with Visio and SharePoint Designer. Use Access Web Database to publish your data on the web, or write Exchange and Lync applications. All these possibilities and more are covered. You also have unprecedented control and flexibility over how you use these technologies in your applications. With a powerful set of Office 365 APIs, you can now access and integrate Office 365 data directly into your web or native applications, with full control of authentication, authorization and discovery. No prior cloud experience is necessary. Sample projects are designed to bring the reader up-to-speed quickly, with full step-by-step instructions to maximize your success across the whole Office 365 suite. Whether you want to build desktop client applications or browser-only solutions, Pro Office 365 Development will show you how to do it.

The complete handbook for PC support professionals developing and implementing business applications using Microsoft Office and Visual Basic. With a special focus on using DDE and OLE to create integrated applications for a wide variety of business uses, this book provides unique insight into the process of designing, maintaining, and supporting applications built using Microsoft Office Professional.