OFC 307 Office 2003 Solution Case Studies Ray Stephenson Smart Client Technical Evangelist

Hmm… Anything you could possibly want to do with Office can be accomplished with Visual Basic for Applications! -Enthusiastic Product Manager circa 1997

Agenda Quick review XML features Extensibility InfoPath Business Value Customer and Partner solutions: demos, demos and more demos Q & A

Important Developments (1) Building Office Solutions Word and XML Persist as XML file format Tag document data to any schema Smart Documents [Word & Excel] Programmable Task Pane Link Task Pane to document context Research and Reference API to expose data sources in the Task Pane in a structured way

Important Developments (2) Building Office Solutions SmartTags v2 Dynamic, context sensitive actions Multi-level menus Visual Studio.NET Tools for Office Finally, the ability to use VS.NET to program to the Office object model Intellisense speeds development Dynamic code download simplifies deployment

New – InfoPath Solutions What does InfoPath provide? Easy & rapid design of rich “forms” User-friendly way to enter data – transparently creating data represented as XML What customer scenarios does it address? Organizational processes Examples: HR, help desk, sales data collection, procurement, inventory management Workgroup collaboration Examples: Status reports, team surveys

Office 2003 / InfoPath More value for the enterprise Use what you know – and keep your data intact Cut and Paste? That’s so 90’s! Solutions can use the inherent value of Office to get better results developed in less time How many paper forms does your company have?

Amazon.com customer

American LegalNet customer

Lawson Software customer

eCollege customer

eBay customer

nGrain customer

xcential customer

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Community Resources Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Newsgroups Converse online with Microsoft Newsgroups, including Worldwide User Groups Meet and learn with your peers

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