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