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Check out my latest article published on devx.com. It’s about how to us Open XML sdk to generate Microsoft Office documents without VSTO or automation. Article is accompanied by code. http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/42221

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OBAs (Office Business Applications) are new types of application/solutions which are built on Office System 2007 as a platform and so deployed on top of Office System 2007 apps. The development stream to develop OBAs is called Office Development and the tools used to develop OBAs are called VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office). A typical Information worker in any industry today uses various

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Open XML sdk is a huge productivity boost for development teams working on programming Office Documents. April 2009 CTP of version 2 has been released while final release is expected to come with ‘Office 14’ release. Version 1 allowed working on Open XML files at package level. Version 2 earlier CTP allowed working @ parts level. This CTP introduces Schema Level Validation functions.

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I am starting an article series mainly for solution architects and others responsible for designing solution on Sharepoint platform. It will start from the basics and will gradually move to designing Office Business Applications (OBAs) on Microsoft Office System. Some of them will be high level while others quite hands-on. The first three articles are published : Sharepoint Products and

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The main component responsible for loading add-ins is Add-In Loader AddinLoader.dll which gets installed with Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime. When any Office client application starts it looks for all the add-ins registered in registry. The registry provides location of Application manifest file for each add-in. The Application manifest file contains mainly following

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Here are some of the major new features introduced in VSTO 2008 v3.0 with respect to VSTO 2005 ( Second Edition) Document level customizations supported for Office 2007 : Document level add-ins allow you to attach add-ins to a particular document only instead of whole application. Visual Designers for Ribbons, Task Panes and Form Regions. Workflow and Sharepoint support.

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Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is a set of Visual Studio plug-ins and project templates which assist in creating add-ins and document level customizations for Office client suite of products like MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint etc. The current version available for Visual Studio 2005 is VSTO 2005 Second Edition (VSTO 2005 SE). The current version available for Visual Studio 2008

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Microsoft's Industry Architecture team has released a free book on building composite applications using the Microsoft Platform. It discusses how to build composite applications as Office Business Applications (OBAs) using the 2007 Microsoft Office System. The book discusses following topics in sequence: 1. Concept of composite applications and their benefits like enterprise alignment,

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