Here are the links to the demos and the ppt deck from the session, “Integrating WPF & WCF into your Office Business Applications” that I did at DevLink in Nashville on August 22nd, 2008:

The PowerPoint Deck with all the links on guidance on how to learn VSTO can be found here.

Demo 1: The Hello World demoed on how to do VSTO and Excel:

• Bits can be downloaded here.
• Instructions on how to build it yourself can be found here.

Demo 2 on how to do a VSTO Outlook Add-in:

• Bits can be downloaded here.
• Instructions on how to build it yourself can be found here.

Demo 3, which is a VSTO Excel application that talks to the AdventureWorks Database

• Bits can be downloaded here.
• If you don’t have the Northwind Sample SQL Server Database installed you can download it from MSDN here or install it from SQL server DVD

Demo 3, which is the VSTO-WPF-WCF music application

• Bits can be found here.
• (install the music database I used with the script here and make sure to see the note below to build your own)
• If you want to build your own music database from your own music on your computer read how to do it from Brian Noyes’s Blog post here: http://briannoyes.net/2008/02/13/BuildYourOwnMusicDatabaseForDemosAndSamples.aspx

Other Notes on my VSTO-WPF-WCF session at TechEd 2008:

· I demoed Charles Petzold’s XAML Cruncher tool. You can download it off his website at: http://www.charlespetzold.com/wpf/XamlCruncher/XamlCruncher.application
use the following XAML as your Startup document (XAML / Save as Startup document):

view here

Tim Huckaby (TimHuck@InterKnowlogy.com)

If you are interested in having InterKnowlogy help you build an application contact me or Andrea Heyen (AHeyen@InterKnowlogy.com)

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