Tech Ed

My TechEd 2007 WPF Data Visualization Presentation

Tim Huckaby — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:17:00 GMT

Here are the links to the demos and the ppt deck from the TechEd 2007 WPF data visualization session that I did on June 5th, 2007.

Please fill out an eval on the www.msteched.com site if you have not already.

Links to the New York Times Reader (and other news reader) WPF applications can be found at: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/02/22/great-wpf-applications-10-daily-mail-seattle-p-i-forbes-com-new-york-times.aspx

Download the stand-alone community version (without the SharePoint 2007 dependancy) of the InterKnowlogy “Cancer App“ (C-ME), built for the Scripps Research Institute with source code here: Download

Download a stand-alone version of the InterKnowlogy 3D collaborator (the WPF app for AutoCad files) here: Download

Download the PowerPoint Deck from the session here: Download

The Vertigo Family Show application can be found here: Go

The code and demo scripts for all of my other demos can be downloaded here: Download

You can get the XceedSoft WPF DataGrid control from there site at http://xceed.com/

You can get information on the Electric Rain Standout product on there site at http://www.erain.com/

Vista Programming Links from the TechEd 2007 Precon with Kate Gregory

Tim Huckaby — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:20:00 GMT

Here are the links to the demos and the ppt decks from the TechEd 2007 Vista Programming Precon that Kate Gregory and I did on June 4th, 2007.

Please fill out an eval on the www.msteched.com site if you have not already.

Download a stand-alone version of the InterKnowlogy 3D collaborator (the WPF app for AutoCad files) here: Download

Download all 6 PowerPoint Decks from the PreCon here: Download

The Vertigo Family Show application can be found here: Go

The code and demo scripts for all of my other demos can be downloaded here: Download

Kate's demo stuff can be found on her blog at: http://www.gregcons.com/KateBlog/

The Slides and Demos from my WF session at TechEd 2006

Tim Huckaby — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:39:00 GMT

Here is where you can get all the slides and demos from the WF session from TechEd 2006 that Adam Calderon and i did.

Sorry if everything is not here just yet. We are putting final touches on the guidance documents and guided tours. Keep checking back as we add content or feel free to email us.

Slide Deck

VS.NET source for Sequential WorkFlow
MOSS unofficial installation instructions for WF.

The Slides & Demos from my TechEd 2006 VSTO session

Tim Huckaby — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:25:00 GMT

Here are the slides and demos from my TechEd 2006 VSTO session.

My celebrity guest, Microsoft's Chad Hower, Regional .NET Developer Advisor (DPE DE) for Microsoft Middle East & Africa is off to Moscow now, then Beirut, Abu Dhabi, Lahore, and Karachi and promises to get his Outlook 12 / VSTO 3.0 demo to me in early July where you'll be able to find here. “Nag” him at: http://blogs.msdn.com/czhower/

Slide Deck
VSTO Excel Guided Tour Source
Great Plains or AdventureWorks Sales Orders Source
VSTO 2005 Guided Tour.doc

And here is an awesome VSTO Excel application I built that facilitates computer management remotely with WMI through VSTO. it's an advanced demo i like to do, but chose not to becuase of (1) the sheer amount of total vsto beginners in the audience and (2) having enough time for Chad to do his demos.

VSTO Excel Win32 Services Source

My VSTO Session at TechEd (wth a surprise guest doing a VSTO 3.0 outlook demo)

Tim Huckaby — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:30:00 GMT

My VSTO Session at Teched is a broad overview session. I go from the absolute begginner stuff and end in some really advanced stuff. and i have a celebrity Microsoft guest doing a VSTO 3.0 outlook demo. He's famous all over the world, but not so famous in America just yet. - he will be. i'm not going to tell you who it is here. come see the session. he's an awesome speaker and i trust that his demo will be amazing.

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 Room 107 Products: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office; Smart Client Audience: Developer; Information Workers

My WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) session at Teched

Tim Huckaby — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:37:00 GMT

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.

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

My Speaking & Booth Duty Schedule at TechEd

Tim Huckaby — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:25:00 GMT

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

Item		Location	Day	Start	Finish
Speaker Sessions
	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
	DEV322 - Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office: Building Smart Client Applications	107 ABC	June 14	8:30 AM	9:45 AM
Staffing Commitments
	DEV - Discussion	DEV - Discussion Area	June 12	1:00 PM	5:00 PM
	OFC - Discussion	OFC - Discussion Area	June 12	5:00 PM	9:00 PM
	DEV - Discussion	DEV - Discussion Area	June 13	1:30 PM	5:45 PM
	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.
Timeslot: 6/13/2006 14:45 - 16:00 Products: Windows Workflow Foundation; Office Infopath; SharePoint Portal Server; Office InfoPath Audience: Architect; Developer; Information Workers

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

It's TechEd Time again...

Tim Huckaby — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:04:00 GMT

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?

The all encompassing kick ass smart client demo (my teched 2005 contoso real estate demo)

Tim Huckaby — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:04:00 GMT

Many of you have asked about gettting your hands on the “all encompassing kick ass smart client demo” (my teched 2005 contoso real estate demo). I'd love to give it to you. There's a couple complications that need to be figured out before i can do that.

(1) I need blessing from Redmond. They own the code base. i'm pretty sure this is not a problem. they love giving out apps that people can learn from and this on in particular is a good one for that. there are some ugly spots underneith, of course, 'cause it's only a demo; not a production app. so, disclaimers would need to be added.

(2) The only form i have it in is two VPCs totalling over 13 gbs of space. there are two complications with this. firstly, putting a link to 13gbs of bits off our public site could potentially bring us to our knees. Secondly, there are licensing issues involved with fully configured VPCs.

Ideally, Redmond will package this demo up into an installable set of MSIs and give very detailed directions on how to set up the environment. maybe they'll even pay us to do that. i hope so. I have an email in to redmond asking how they'd like to proceed. Keep your fingers crossed.

The Demos and PPT from my Smart Client Session at TechEd 2005 Orlando

Tim Huckaby — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:31:00 GMT

As promised, at the link below you can download my demos and powerpoint deck from my Smart Client Session at Teched.

i can't give you the Pacific life code, but i have placed the OLAF whidbey project in there that it was based on. OLAF is the outlook look alike.

if you want the all encompassing contoso smart client demo i did first, please email me. i only have it in two vpc files totalling 12 gbs! there is no install directions and if there were it would be burdensome. i believe the ms folks want it "shored up" before public distribution - but, we'll get that worked out if you email me at TimHuck@InterKnowlogy.com.