1. Extending the Reach of your Applications Jeremy Boyd & John-Daniel Trask Mindscape

2. Lots of ground to cover! New concepts, code! Look for code, samples and presentation downloads. jeremy@mindscape.co.nz jd@mindscape.co.nz http://www.mindscape.co.nz

3. Remoteness…

4. 1990

5. 2000

6. 2007 So Many Possibilities!

7. Example

8. What has enabled this? Prevalence of Internet –Broadband is driving richer experience –Users expect to be connected XML –Standard protocols for exchange of data (RSS, SOAP)

9. Software+Services Windows Presentation Foundation Office 2007 Client Sharepoint Web Parts Software

10. Background Motion Lightweight build: 3 weeks Consumes resources from Flickr, Soapbox, GeoTagIt Also publishes services and data

11. How do you get started? Publish RSS –Allow your content to be syndicated Expose Web Services –Open (ASP.NET 2.0 or WCF) –Secure (WCF) Expose an OpenSearch provider –Let users search directly from their browser

12. Easy Reach for your applications

13. Surfaces Internet –Data (RSS) and Services Platform Surfaces –Windows Vista –Mobile –Media Center Application Surfaces –Microsoft Office 2007

14. Windows Vista Desktop Existing Opportunities –Desktop client (Windows Forms) New Opportunities –Rich client (Windows Presentation Foundation) –Mini app (Sidebar Gadget)

15. Windows Presentation Foundation Unified approach to UI, Documents and Media Integrated, vector-based composition engine Declarative model (XAML) Brings designers and developers together Flexible Deployment

16. Windows Presentation Foundation

17. Vista Sidebar Gadgets Easy to use “mini applications” Designed to be informative or functional Designed to have low intrusion Allows reach for existing applications or services

18. Vista Sidebar Gadgets

19. Sidebar Gadgets

20. SharePoint Web Parts Created for SharePoint 2003 Empowers users Great for content delivery

21. ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts Web Parts outside SharePoint Even better for content delivery!

22. Building Web Parts on WSS v3

23. Call to Action Publish an RSS Feed Publish an OpenSearch Provider –http://tinyurl.com/zda68http://tinyurl.com/zda68 Download and install WSS 3.0 –Build a Web Part Build a Sidebar Gadget

24. Questions? Email: jeremy@mindscape.co.nz jd@mindscape.co.nz Blogs: http://www.turtle.net.nz/blog http://blog.bluecog.co.nz http://www.mindscape.co.nz/blog