OBA Ramblings

SharePoint Connections Deck

I'm just wrapping up my week here in Las Vegas for SharePoint Connections, and one of the requests I had was to post my decks for those who attended my sessions. I've posted my decks to a public skydrive folder here: http://cid-40a717fc7fcd7e40.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/SharePointConnections/Final%7C_Presentations.zip Read More...

Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:39 PM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, SharePoint development, SharePoint, Silverlight

End-to-End Sales Forecast OBA Released To Web!

It's been a while, but I wanted to let all you OBA developers out there know of something cool that we recently released, which is the End-to-End (E2E) Sales Forecast OBA. As you know from reading this blog, you know that OBA is an Office Business Application Read More...

Posted: Saturday, October 25, 2008 3:28 AM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, Steve Fox, OBAs, OBA, Custom Outlook Form Region, OFR, SharePoint development, SharePoint, MSDN

Use Silverlight to Enhance your SharePoint-Based OBAs with the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint

Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint Released to CodePlex! Today we released the source code for the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint—based on the Silverlight Beta 2 release. The Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint provide a way for developers Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:00 PM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBAs, OBA, SharePoint development, SharePoint, MSDN, Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint, Silverlight

Create Your First OBA: Part 5

Hey gang, It's been a while since I've posted, but I've been on the road. I attended TechEd 2008 (USA), our internal field conference TechReady 7, and then travelled to South Africa to TechEd 2008 (S. Africa). Now, I'm back in Seattle--albeit a little Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:29 PM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, OBAs, OBA, Your First OBA, Your First Office Business Application, SharePoint development, SharePoint, MSDN, Web service, Business Data Catalog, BDC

Create Your First OBA: Part 4

Wow, it's been a while since I blogged on this...time flies. If you've been following along with my previous posts, you'll have seen some of the other Create Your First OBA posts. Here they are if you haven’t seen them: 1. Creating the VSTO document-level Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:17 AM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBAs, OBA, Your First OBA, Your First Office Business Application, SharePoint development, SharePoint, MSDN

SharePoint Development Conference (FireStarter) at Microsoft on June 11th

OBA is a broad area and we're seeing an increase in the number of developers who are building SharePoint solutions--both internally to an enterprise and externally on the web. Microsoft is hosting a 1-day event for those of you interested in learning Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:04 PM by Steve Fox | 2 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Business Applications, OBA, FireStarter, SharePoint development, SharePoint

Create Your First OBA: Part 3

Hey gang, If you've been following along with the Create Your First OBA series, I've published the first two of the six parts - see below. 1. Creating the VSTO document-level solution (i.e. the custom document) ; 2. Deploying the VSTO document-level solution Read More...

Posted: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:14 PM by Steve Fox | 3 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, OBAs, OBA, Outlook OBA, Your First OBA, Your First Office Business Application

Integrate Office with SAP...

You may have heard of Duet, an out of the box OBA that supports a number of different scenarios for the enterprise ( http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/duet/FX101686211033.aspx?ofcresset=1 ). Duet is a great solution and covers a wide variety of scenarios. Read More...

Posted: Friday, March 28, 2008 2:17 PM by Steve Fox | 0 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, OBAs, OBA, OBA Sample Application Kit

The ramblings continue...starting out on OBA

It's been a while since I've blogged last, and things have been very busy. Over the past three months, I've been to a number of conferences including the most recent Office Developer Conference and SharePoint Conference. It was great to see more OBA-centric Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:34 PM by Steve Fox | 0 Comments

Filed under: MOSS platform, Office platform, Office Development, Office Business Applications, OBA platform, Steve Fox, OBAs, OBA

The ramblings begin...

Well it's December 13th, and I have not really started my Holiday shopping yet...how sad is that. But alas, I'm sure you're not tuning into this blog to hear about the lameness of my shopping habits, but you're probably looking for a little info on this Read More...

Posted: Friday, December 14, 2007 12:07 AM by Steve Fox | 1 Comments