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Turning Outlook Into A Front –End For Third Party Systems Ty Anderson Partner Cogent Company CLI309

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CLI309. Turning Outlook Into A Front –End For Third Party Systems. Ty Anderson Partner Cogent Company. Agenda. Why Outlook as a Front-End Anatomy of an Outlook Front-End Demo. Why Use Outlook As A Front-End?. Disconnected!!! Must use different systems to complete work. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Turning Outlook Into A Front –End For Third Party SystemsTy AndersonPartnerCogent Company

CLI309

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AgendaWhy Outlook as a Front-EndAnatomy of an Outlook Front-EndDemo

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Why Use Outlook As A Front-End?

Personal DataE-mailAppointmentsContactsTasksNotesDocumentsEtc…

Business DataCustomersVendorsInvoicesPurchase OrdersInventory LogsSales LeadsEtc…

Disconnected!!!

Must use different

systems to complete

work

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Anatomy Of An Outlook Front-EndOutlook Form

Task Pane

Custom Ribbon

Custom Form Region

Default Form FieldsAccounting System

Acct Data

API

Sales System

Sales Data

VSTO Provides the Add-In FrameworkFull Support of the .NET FrameworkBuilding Outlook Add-Ins Follows the Windows Forms Model

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Custom Task Panes andTask Pane Management

DEMO #1

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Building Form RegionsDEMO #2

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Integrating With ACustom Ribbon

DEMO #3

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Offline ScenariosDEMO #4

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Additional ResourcesOffice Business Applications Developer Portal

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/office/aa905528.aspx

VSTO on MSDNhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/office/aa905533.aspx

VSTO Team Bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/default.aspx

My Bloghttp://www.officedeveloper.net

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Office Developer Conference

Enter the Unconference

Don’t forget the evaluations

Explore the Expo

Party on Tuesday

Build on Office

Office Development

Services

Tools

Client Server

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