Ty Anderson Partner Cogent Company CLI309. Why Outlook as a Front-End Anatomy of an Outlook Front-End Demo

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

CLI309

Agenda

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

Why Use Outlook As A Front-End?

Personal Data

E-mail

Appointments

Contacts

Tasks

Notes

Documents

Etc…

Business Data

Customers

Vendors

Invoices

Purchase Orders

Inventory Logs

Sales Leads

Etc…

Disconnected!!!

Must use different

systems to complete

work

Anatomy Of An Outlook Front-EndOutlook Form

Task Pane

Custom Ribbon

Custom Form Region

Default Form Fields

Accounting 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

Custom Task Panes andTask Pane Management

DEMO #1

Building Form Regions

DEMO #2

Integrating With ACustom Ribbon

DEMO #3

Offline Scenarios

DEMO #4

Additional Resources

Office Business Applications Developer Portalhttp://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

http://www.microsoft.com/


http://msdn2.microsoft.com/office/aa905533.aspx





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