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30 SharePoint Application Templates
Ian Tien
writes "Business Scorecard Manager is built atop SharePoint Products and Technologies, which has released 30 SharePoint application templates around a wide range of functionailty..."
VSTA Fills an Important Niche for MS
FTP Online bloggers
writes "Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA), announced at Wednesday's PDC keynote, is a clear boon to those who want to customize and extend their apps with a .NET-based scripting tool..."
SharePoint vNext has a built in scheduler
Angus Logan
writes "You Can use the SPSchedule object to setup some process to execute at a specified interval..."
InfoPath Form on WAP Phone
David Mann
writes "Steven Sinofsky showed an InfoPath form in a Firefox browser and on a WAP phone. Very cool.
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Office 12 - Where to get information?
Darryl Burling
writes "Start at the Office Preview page.... Then there is the Office XML page...then check out Brian Jones' blog - he's got a rich plethora of information there on Office 12 and XML....
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SharePoint v3 to support ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts
Angus Logan
writes "When v3 aka vNext ships you will be able to build your ASP.NET web parts and automagically use them..."
Ribbon UI
erikaehrli
writes "You can also extend the Ribbon UI by creating COM or managed Add-Ins or by using a text-based XML markup definition to create and customize the UI. The following picture shows a peek of the Ribbon UI..."
XML Schema Reference at the Office Developer Center
erikaehrli
writes "If you want to understand more of the internals of Microsoft Office "12" Word®, Microsoft Office "12" Excel®, and Microsoft Office "12" PowerPoint®, download the Office "12" XML Schema Reference - PDC 2005 Preview and take a deep dive into the XML schemas...
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SharePoint v3
Eli Robillard
writes "SharePoint lists can now receive e-mail. Discussion Boards, Calendars, DocLibs, Announcements accept incoming mail. Discussion boards maintain e-mail threading and full html messages. Calendars process incoming iCals, DocLibs map attachments to documents..."
Windows Workflow Foundation
Joris Poelmans
writes "A workflow is defined as a set of activities, great integration with Outlook 2003 - activities in a workflow can be linked to tasks in Outlook 2003..."
SharePoint Audit
Bil Simser
writes "First there's some pretty nice stuff happening under the scenes with V3. There's a nice audit model built-in so things like the number of views of a document are tracked but you don't need to iterate through each document to find it."
Sharepoint and Office
Govind Kanshi
writes "SPS becomes the backbone of the enterprise content mgmt - doing content publishing, authoring. New CMS server is based of SPS framework. Enterprise Searching(with extensible framework to plug in the lob search , Business process, Business Intelligence, everything becomes part of the Office ecosystem. Infopath gets new life as Forms Server? Excel also comes in on the server side.
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Office 12 XML format
Jeremy Boyd
writes "Think of a Word doc with an imbedded image - the image is just a resource inside the zip container - so you could swap it out without having to do anything in the tool, just some zip magic..."
Access 12 session at PDC
ThirdOfFive
writes "In case you are wondering what kind of content there is at the PDC regarding Access 12, this was the main session (below). In case you did attend, I'd love to hear what you thought about what you saw..."
Microsoft Office, the Server Edition, Part Two
Joe Wilcox
writes "Steven clearly stated something I've been saying for a long time: That the Office System platform is built on integration with Server System. "
Office 12 shown at PDC
Steele Price
writes "My first impression was , “it's about time they made it easier to get to the features.”..."
VSTA
Brad Wardell
writes "Visual Studio for Applications is scheduled to debut in SDK form with Office 12. It looks - to me - as the equivalent of Windows Scripting Host for previous versions of Windows. That is, developers will be able to make use of Microsoft's .NET languages in their apps. This looks very nice as we use this sort of thing heavily...
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Ribbons are the new Toolbar
Brad Wardell
writes "I just got a tour of Office 12 here at PDC. With Office 12, Microsoft is introducing a new concept -- ribbons. At first glance, ribbons look like toolbars on steroids. But they are much more context sensitive.
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Office 12 Beta 1 for attendees
Geoff Snowman
writes "All PDC attendees will receive beta 1 of O12..."
What do you think of InfoPath?
George Bullock
writes "Steven Sinofsky demoed some very cool features in Share Point aspects of Office 12. InfoPath especially has some great updates. It will be interesting to see the developer response..."
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