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• Building an Office Business Application (OBA) that shows Integration of Office Client with SharePoint

  Steve Fox and Bill Sheldon have put together an example application that shows deep integration of the Office Client with SharePoint. Office Business Application (OBAs) such as this one address the gap between the idealized world where business processes follow a fixed procedure, and the real world, where processes are dynamic, collaborative, and much less structured. Users of this OBA work in their familiar Microsoft Office environment, while interacting with their line-of-business data. This example Read More... Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 5:26 AM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: OpenXML, SharePoint, Book Recommendations, OBA

• Anders Hejlsberg Talks about C#, Mentions Dynamic Language Features for C# 4.0

  In a must-read October 1, 2008 interview with Computerworld , Anders Hejlsberg talks about the history of C#, the motivations behind some of the language design decisions, and mentions that the C# team is looking at supporting dynamic programming. From the article: “I think that C# is becoming one of the first widely adopted multi paradigm programming languages out there. With C# you can do object oriented programming, you can do procedural programming, now you can also do functional programming Read More... Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 10:38 AM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Book Recommendations, PDC2008, Functional Programming, Dynamic Types

• Use INFER.EXE to Create XML Schemas

  In my post, OpenXmlCodeTester: Validating Code in Open XML Documents I used XSD to validate the build instructions (which are XML that you place in content controls). INFER.EXE, available at XML Downloads , is your best friend for putting together schemas. This isn't news, but I was chatting with one of my dev friends here at Microsoft, and he wasn’t aware of the existence of this tool, so I’m calling attention to it. Its use couldn’t be simpler – create a directory, put examples of all varieties Read More... Posted Saturday, September 13, 2008 2:54 PM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: xml, Book Recommendations