What's new in Smart Client Development Do you build rich client applications? If so, you'll want to make sure that you're aware of all Microsoft's client-development technology. This event will showcase a wealth of new and forthcoming technology, including Visual Studio 2008. Agenda: Session 1: Building Rich Clients on the Microsoft Platform - Martin Parry People want compelling user experiences supported by powerful online services. Microsoft's platform and tools empower developers to build both the rich client and the service. In this session we'll concentrate on some recent and forthcoming technologies that enable rich client apps: Visual Studio 2008, WPF, SQL Server Compact Edition and ClickOnce to name but a few. Session 2: Office as a development platform with Visual Studio 2008 - Daniel Moth The 2007 Microsoft Office System is extensible like never before. In this session we'll look at the numerous ways to extend the various Office applications such as Word, Excel, Outlook and others. Customisations demonstrated will include the new designers and templates for the Ribbon, Actions Pane, Task Pane, Content Controls and Form Regions. This will all be done in managed code from within Visual Studio 2008 and we will also see how to interop in both directions with VBA code. For more details and the original slidedeck visit http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/events/new/Detail.aspx?id=115

1. Office as a development platform with Visual Studio 2008 Daniel Moth Developer and Platform Group Microsoft http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog

7. Set the scene inc document level addins

8. “ Fluent” UI Ribbon, Custom Task Panes, Actions Pane, Form Region

10. XML-based Customisation Support Ribbon XML structure requires a specific hierarchy <customUI xmlns=&quot;http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui&quot; onLoad=&quot;OnLoad&quot;> <ribbon> <tabs> <tab idMso=&quot;TabAddIns&quot;> <group id=&quot;MyGroup&quot; label=&quot;My Group&quot;> <toggleButton id=&quot;toggleButton1&quot; size=&quot;large&quot; label=&quot;My Button&quot; screentip=&quot;My Button Screentip&quot; onAction=&quot;OnToggleButton1&quot; imageMso=&quot;AccessFormModalDialog&quot; /> </group> </tab> </tabs> </ribbon> </customUI> For example:

12. Ribbon Designer Property Grid Ribbon Control Toolbox Design Surface

14. Pane UI Customization

15. Custom Task Panes and Action Panes

16. ActionsPane Architecture Document Actions Task Pane WinForms UserControl (ActionsPane) VSTO Invisible ActiveX Control

19. Adjoining in Reading Pane

20. Adjoining in Inspector

21. Separate

22. Replacement & Replace-All

24. Outlook Form Region

25. Fluent UI

26. Word Content Controls

31. Word Content Controls

33. UI Feature Availability VSTO 2005 + VSTO 2005 SE VSTO v3.0 Ribbon (2007 versions of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint ) Simplified hookup Sample XML Simplified hookup Sample XML Visual designer Richer programming layer Export-to-XML option Actions Pane (document-level projects only) Word 2003 (doc, dot) Excel 2003 (xls, xlt) Word 2003 (doc, dot) Excel 2003 (xls, xlt) Word 2007 (docx/m, dotx/m) Excel 2007 (xlsx/m, xltx/m) Custom Task Pane (2007 versions of Word, Excel, Outlook, InfoPath and PowerPoint) Simplified hookup Visual designer Simplified hookup Visual designer Outlook Form Region (Outlook 2007 only) Visual designer Configuration wizard Import from existing Word Content Controls Drag n drop controls Simple data-binding Lock controls and content

36. VBA and VSTO Interop

38. ClickOnce Deployment

42. VSTO Design-Time Stack Visual Studio Project Templates IDE Hosting Item Wizards Workflow Document Solutions Add-ins Ribbons Form Regions SharePoint Excel, Word, Info Path Excel, InfoPath, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Project Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word Outlook Separate IDE Info Path

43. VSTO/A Runtime Stack VSTO Runtime Office Client Host Managed/ Unmanaged Host Doc Task Pane Host Item Controls Win Forms Controls Doc-Level Solution App-Level Add-in Custom Ribbon Custom Task Pane Custom Form Region App-Level Add-in VSTA Integration Common VSTO/A Runtime .NET CLR Managed Add-in Framework (MAF) AppDomain Management Deployment and Updating Security Enforcement Doc-Level Solution ClickOnce