This is my 9th straight year speaking at TechEd and my WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) Session is a first for me. why? it's the first time i have ever had a session outside the developer track. This session, although developer focused, is in the Office track.
This session is an adaption (and beta 2 version) of a successful session that talented office/WF team members, George Hatoun and Eilene Yao from Microsoft have been doing over the last many months. George and Eilene asked me to do this session months ago fully knowing they'd be heads down trying to ship their product during teched. It is my honor to do it on their behalf.
There are three big demos in the session (unlike the 5 little ones i typically do in a dev session).
The first demo has no code at all in it - a first for me - and it is my favorite. it simply shows the WF integration in SharePoint 2007 and Office 2007....but the WF integration is so awesome in SPS 2007 and office 2007 it really excites me. and when i show people they are blown away. to a man everyone i do that demo for agrees by saying, “now that is why we have to upgrade to office 2007.”
the 2nd demo is compelling becuase it builds on the first demo. it's like, “ok, if the standard workflows you get for free in SharePoint 2007 are not enough to fit your needs, here's how easy it is to design and build a custom one in VS.NET 2005. and i hope to portray just how easy and powerful it is to do that.
for the 3rd demo i have a celebrity guest. I have asked c# MVP Adam Calderon to do a demo of a real WF implementation he's helping to do at a real software company. it's advanced WF and i believe the audience will totally dig a middle tier implementation of WF - a very compelling design pattern for WF.
For the last few years I have been having “celebrity guests” do demos in my sessions and it has worked very well. for the last couple years i have had brad sherrell from pacific life join me on stage. he is an amazing talent, a good friend and a fantastic speaker. he's not coming this year and i miss him already.
Come see the session and make sure to say hi.
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OFC312 - Developing Workflows for the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) |
253 ABC |
June 13 |
2:45 PM |
4:00 PM |
Here's where to best track me down at the event....and I encourage you to do so.
My sched for sessions and booth duty:
Schedule for Tim Huckaby
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OFC312 - Developing Workflows for the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) |
253 ABC |
June 13 |
2:45 PM |
4:00 PM |
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DEV322 - Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office: Building Smart Client Applications |
107 ABC |
June 14 |
8:30 AM |
9:45 AM |
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Staffing Commitments |
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DEV - Discussion |
DEV - Discussion Area |
June 12 |
1:00 PM |
5:00 PM |
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OFC - Discussion |
OFC - Discussion Area |
June 12 |
5:00 PM |
9:00 PM |
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DEV - Discussion |
DEV - Discussion Area |
June 13 |
1:30 PM |
5:45 PM |
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DEV - Discussion |
DEV - Discussion Area |
June 14 |
9:00 AM |
12:00 PM |
| OFC312 - Developing Workflows for the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) |
Level: 300 |
| Learn about how workflow integration is surfaced throughout Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. This session demonstrates both the out-of-the-box workflow features in the Microsoft Office products and how to build custom workflow solutions with Visual Studio 2005. Learn how to integrate those workflows into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and how to build workflow forms with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007. This session focuses on the power and developer productivity of workflow solutions built on Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). WF is a powerful technology and this session delves into the tips and tricks, positives and negatives when designing and building workflow solutions with WF. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), a platform component and part of the Windows plumbing included with the WinFX Runtime Components, has an extensible programming model and runtime components to make powerful workflow solutions. Couple WF with the latest version of Office SharePoint Server 2007 infrastructure and Office InfoPath forms backed by managed code and you have quite a powerful set of tools, plumbing and infrastructure to build powerful and scalable workflow solutions with ease. |
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Timeslot: 6/13/2006 14:45 - 16:00
Products: Windows Workflow Foundation; Office Infopath; SharePoint Portal Server; Office InfoPath
Audience: Architect; Developer; Information Workers
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| DEV322 - Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office: Building Smart Client Applications |
Level: 300 |
| This session focuses on the power and developer productivity of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO). VSTO is a .NET Smart Client technology and this session will delve into the tips and tricks, positives and negatives when designing and building smart client applications with VSTO. VSTO allows you to build managed code applications with .NET languages like Visual Basic .NET and C# and have the functionality of those applications manifest in the rich user interfaces of Microsoft Office Excel, Office Word, Office Outlook and the rest of the Microsoft Office system. Learn just how easy it is to build powerful VSTO applications in this session and how to deploy those applications. This session covers the current 2.0 version of VSTO-Visual Studio Tools for Office, Version 2005 which addresses some of the biggest challenges that Office solution developers are facing today, including separation of data and view elements, server-side and offline scenarios, seamless integration with the Visual Studio tools, deployment and updating. And it will delve into the future of VSTO-version 3-and its coverage of the entire Office system stack. |
Timeslot: 6/14/2006 8:30 - 9:45
Products: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office; Smart Client
Audience: Developer; Information Workers |
As I sit in LAX waiting for my flight to Boston, I realized It's TechEd Time again and consequently i'm “encouraged” to write down some thoughts on the coming week, my sessions, and the other involvements I have going.
My schedule is a disaster. This is my 9th straight year speaking at TechEd and they don't let us play like in the old days. Now a days speakers really have to work at the event....well, at least I am one of the speakers that doesn't push back when asked... I doubt I will be able to attend any sessions at all, short of the two I am doing. MS really has their act together for teched these days. My standard drill was to speak on the very first day, right after the keynote so i could play all week - not the case this year! along with my sessions on tuesday and wednesday i have to staff the ms booth monday to wednesday, i am filming a video for msft, i'm staffing the RD booth, i have meetings all day saturday and sunday and i have to do a few press interviews. It's all good. I'm sure i'll have a blast like usual. These big msft confs are always like reunions for me. it's just this year i'll have to stay somewhat sober until my sessions are delivered... :)
I'll put my sched in a seperate post so i can be tracked down.
TechEd, the superbowl of msft confs is also the place for big announcements by msft. amusingly there was a marketing announcement today with no technical significance. consequently, i'm amazed at the buzz it's getting. winfx, a code name from the beginnning has been renamed to .net 3.0. end of story. simply a brand identity thing. there's no gossip in there at all. there's nothing to read into that at all. msft briefed me on it (with some of my peers) and it seems to logical and simple to me and i will never pretend to know anything about marketing so i just took it with a grain of salt. but, i have read and heard quite the speculations on it....which are all ridiculous. it also amuses me that Soma chose to release this news in his blog. I must be getting to old. what happened to the days of a simple press release?