1. Microsoft Office System UK Developers Conference
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Microsoft Office System UK Developers Conference
Radisson Edwardian, Heathrow
29th & 30th June 2005
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2. Web Services and Information Bridge Framework
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Web Services and Information Bridge Framework
Paul Appleby
Developer Evangelist
Microsoft Ltd
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3. Agenda IBF Architecture IBF Web Services Creating IBF Service Metadata
Creating IBF Solution Metadata

4. Architecture Overview

5. Case Study Scenario (Northwind DB)
Use Northwind DB as our data source
Expose Customers/Orders to Office apps
Required functionality
View data
Navigate data
Search for data
Interact with the document

6. Creating An IBF Web Service Build recommendations
From a technical prospective require WS-I compliant Web service
Additionally it also…
Exposes meaningful data for building applications
Groups methods around an entity with methods for Get/Put/Act on that entity
Entity Get ( Reference ) – retrieves entity
Put ( Reference, Entity ) – update/creates entity
Data Act ( Reference, Data ) – acts on an entity
Uses references as the way to identify data  a reference is a schema that represents a unique instance of an entity (ex., <Customer id=12 />)

7. Creating IBF Service Metadata IBF Metadata elements
Scope
Top grouping element in metadata
Usually maps to your service
Entity
Conceptual business object (i.e., Customer)
View
Concrete subset of data for a given entity (i.e., CustomerContactInfo)
Relationship
Mapping between Entities/Views for navigation between them
Reference
Schema used to uniquely identify a piece of information
Usually input of get operations

8. Creating IBF Service Metadata Design service Metadata
ByName
Customers
ByCustId
Customer
ByCountry
ByCustId
Order
ByOrderId
Orders

9. Creating Metadata For The Web Service
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Creating Metadata For The Web Service
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10. Case Study Overall architecture
Metadata
Solution
Metadata
Service
Metadata
Solution
Components:
UI, Search,
Recognizers, etc.
Northwind
Web
Service
Northwind DB

11. Creating Solution Metadata
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Creating Solution Metadata
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12. Session Summary IBF Architecture Web Service Requirements
Understanding Metadata
Building a solution using the Metadata tools

13. Summary: The IBF Advantage
Users discover and operate on enterprise applications directly without leaving the Office environment
No unnecessary and repetitive “screen hopping” and “copy and paste” operations
Actions and Data are mapped to the familiar Office experience
Instant productivity. No learning curve
Transparent delivery of just the right data in real-time
Without having to worry about where the data source is located or how it is accessed

14. IBF with LOB Connectors
IBF Product Roadmap
IBF V1.0
June, 04
IBF V1.5 SP
February, 05
IBF with LOB Connectors
3Q CY06
Summary
Core Features
Contextually access and act on business objects using Smart Tag / Attached Schema Office documents
Client engine localized in 8 languages
Hosted within
Excel 2003
Word 2003
Outlook 2003
Visual Studio add-in tools for
Solution UI designer
Metadata Editor to create and configure LOB connectivity and solution description
Services for LOB Connectivity
Prescriptive guidance & reference code for metadata based services that expose Office consumable business objects
Developers need to create the metadata based semantics for business objects
Requires 3rd party or custom connector to interface with LOB system
Summary
New Features
URL Moniker (hyperlinks) based invocation
Client Cache Manager
Metadata driven SmartTags
New Hosts supported
- InfoPath 2003 SP1
Internet Explorer
Tools Enhancements
- Wizards to simplify metadata population and solution creation
XML Mapper (Biztalk) to generate XSL transformations visually
Better debugging support
Services for LOB Connectivity
Updated guidelines and Reference Code (Resource Kit)
Summary
New Features
Out of box connectivity with LOB systems
Ability to embed and host IBF views in any app via Smart Viewer and Smart Parts
New Hosts supported
- Can be hosted by any app e.g. Axapta, MSN Messenger, 3rd party – mySAP, Siebel etc.
Tools Enhancements
Solution Designer fully integrated with VSTO
IBF appears as a data source in VSTO
Rich Client Designer (End User)
Metadata Browser
Services for LOB Connectivity
Provides complete metadata and connectors to link to major LOB Apps out-of-box
Frequently used business objects exposed natively for use in solutions
Excel IE IE
3rd Party Host
Smart Viewer
Smart Parts
Outlook
Host Clients
InfoPath
InfoPath
Host Clients
Word
Excel
Host Clients
Excel
Host Clients
Excel
Outlook
Outlook
Outlook
Word
Word
Word
Solution Design
Tools
Wizards & XML Mapper
Wizards & XML Mapper
Integrated with VSTO
Tools
Metadata Design
Solution Designer
Tools
Solution Designer
Tools
Solution Designer
Rich Client Designer
VS Add-in
Metadata Editor
Metadata Editor
Metadata Browser
Needs Manual Metadata Population for LOB Connectivity
Prescriptive guidance & reference code for developing semantically rich services
Prescriptive guidance & reference code for developing semantically rich services
Semantically rich services with biz objects that integrate seamlessly with Office
Services
Services
Services
Services
LOB/WEB services Connectivity Guidelines
3rd party or custom LOB connector
3rd party or custom LOB connector
Integrated LOB connector

15. Call To Action
Discuss with end users challenges of accessing and acting upon enterprise information and define requirements
Download and start learning Information Bridge Framework today
Develop & Deploy solutions with Information Bridge Framework
Newsgroup
IBF Team at
me at

16. © 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
10/04/ :15
© 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.
© 2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.