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 the Office Developers Conference in San Jose on February, 11th, 2008:
The PowerPoint Deck with all the links on guidance on how to learn VSTO can be found here.
Demo 1 on how to do VSTO and Excel can be found here.
Demo 2, which is a VSTO Excel application that talks to the AdventureWorks Database can be found here.
(if you don’t have Northwind installed you can download it from MSDN)
Demo 3, which is the VSTO-WPF-WCF music application, 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)
Demo 4 on hot to do a VSTO Outlook Add-in can be found here.
Other Notes on my VSTO-WPF-WCF session at the ODC:
· 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):
<Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" >
<Page.Resources>
</Page.Resources>
<Viewbox>
<Rectangle Fill="DodgerBlue" Width="80" Height="21"/>
</Viewbox>
</Page>
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
Tim Huckaby (TimHuck@InterKnowlogy.com)