Office Developers Conference - Day 1

Wow, what a day.  Some highlights:

  • Kurt DelBene gave another keynote address following Bill Gates - very good presentation with some great demos.
  • This morning's keynotes had funny videos during the breaks called "Mr Office Developer Guy" (to the tune of Real Men of Genius).  Hopefully those will make it out to youtube/soapbox soon.
  • I attended "Designer / Developer Interaction of Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer."  This was a fantastic presentation given by Rob Howard where he showed how to build custom ASP.NET controls, add them to SharePoint Designer, and then consume them within a Data Form Web Part.  FANTASTIC!
  • I then saw Ted Pattison's talk on SharePoint Deployment.  It was a good discussion but most of the talk centered around using STSDEV for packaging your solutions.  Rob had also talked about another solution tool WSPBuilder in his session.
  • I also got some very cool demos from three vendor booths:
    • Cameron from Nintex gave an overview of their very cool workflow tool
    • Some folks from HP were nice enough to show me their Sizing and Configuration Tool
    • I picked up a book from the OpenXMLdeveloper.org booth and had a quick chat about the joys of generating Word 2003 XML files.

Posted 02-12-2008 1:23 AM by Raymond Mitchell
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