IW technologies, what's to come in 2006

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IW technologies, what's to come in 2006?

• Joris Poelmans
• http//jopx.blogspot.com

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Office 12
• Office 12 customisation options
• Office 12 Servers
• WSS 3.0
• CMSVNext
• Other Office servers InfoPath, Search, BDC,...
• QA

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Office 12

• Result oriented interface Enter the Ribbon.
  Some love it others hate it
• I just saw a video demo of Office 12. Wow!
  Microsoft has an ace with their new UI. Source
  http//blog.labnotes.org/2005/09/20/office-12/
• Get ready for a surprise Today saw the launch
  of the brand spanking new user interface for
  Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint the Office 12
  Ribbon. Source http//blogs.msdn.com/bowerm/arch
  ive/2005/09/13/464798.aspx
• The screenshots of that new Office 12 UI are
  TERRIBLE.  The new UI is going to confuse the
  hell out of everyone.  What were they thinking?
  Source http//channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?Pos
  tID115741

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The new Office UI

• Judge for yourself ....

at http//www.neowin.net/comments.php?id30382cat
egorymain
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Office 12 UI enhancements The Ribbon

• Why
• Make features more discoverable...
• The Ribbon
• Replaces for menus and toolbars
• Consists of a number of tabs
• Each tab number of chunks

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Office 12 UI enhancements The Ribbon

• Chunks
• Can host rich control types buttons, listbox,
  images,....
• New control type - Gallery
• Galleries
• Visual way of browsing functionality
• Shows the result of commands, not the commands
  themselves
• Develop your own tabs and chunks

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The Ribbon Galleries
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Office 12 Other UI enhancements

• Live preview
• Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
• Floatie
• On-object UI select text/image and see what
  functionality is available

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Office 12 New UI

• New UI
• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Outlook (except the shell)
• Access
• Customizable New XML model

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Office 12 New document format

• New XML file formats for Word, Excel and
  PowerPoint
• New extensions docx, pptx, xlsx
• ZIP container with XML files
• Backward Compatible Office 2000, Office XP,
  Office 2003
• Patches available at launch
• http//blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/default.aspx
• Sneak preview of XML schema
• http//www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa
  milyID15805380-f2c0-4b80-9ad1-2cb0c300aef9displa
  ylangen

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Office 12 Open XML
User view single Office file
Developer view modular file
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Office 12 Open XML for developers

• What can we do?
• Automated document assembly
• Reuse content in documents
• Add content tags as entry points to your own
  solutions
• Query document stores based on metadata
• VSTO support for XML formats

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Office 12 Customization options

• Existing code will work VBA managed code
• New model RibbonX possibilities
• Add your own tabs
• Add your own chunks to built-in tabs
• Add to the File menu
• Add to built-in contextual tabs
• Lots of new controls

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RibbonX

• XML Format
• Easier to use write less code
• Same for Outlook, Word, Excel, .
• Use fixed named controls Ids
• Uses the new controls

idmyChunk labelMy 1st Chunk idmyButton labelHello World!
onActionmyHelloFunc /
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Support for new controls

• Office 2003 only 5 controls
• Office 12 more then 10 controls to use

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RibbonX How to ...

• Use from within a COM Add-in
• Implement IMsoRibbonExtensibility interface
• Return RibbonX markup from GetCustomUI method
• Add inside the new file format document
• VSTO v3 offers design-time runtime support for
  RibbonX

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VSTO v3.0

• AppDomain Isolation
• No more MSCORee.dll Addins are recognized by
  host application
• New designers
• Ribbon designer
• Custom Task Pane Designer

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Office 12 Servers

• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• CMSVNext
• InfoPath 12 Platform
• Office Server Search
• Business Data Catalog

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Office 12 Server InvestmentsBetter
empowerment, TCO and developer productivity
Next generation e-mail, project management,
workflow, blog and wiki support
Server-based spreadsheets plus BI portals built
on SQL Server Analysis Services
Windows SharePoint Services
Server-based forms and workflow with smart client
and browser interfaces
Enhanced SharePoint Portal aggregation and
personalization
Site Provisioning, Storage, Security,
Management, APIs
Integrated document, records and Web content
management
Great relevance with rich people and business
data search
Unified ASP.NET 2.0 workspace foundation for
scalability and extensibility
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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

• Whats new?
• General enhancements
• List enhancements
• UI enhancements
• WSS 3.0 better development support

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WSS 3.0 General enhancements

• Content types
• Define a type of information and associated with
  it the available metadata, its policy and
  workflow options
• Single item security both in lists and
  libraries
• Support for document policies
• Recycle bin
• Site breadcrumb
• Richer alerts
• Security Trimmed UI only show links if you can
  use them
• Folders can be used in every type of list
• Add metadata to folders
• Out of the box support for workflow
• Integrated with Outlook
• Based on Windows Workflow Foundation
• Create new workflows with FrontPage and VS.Net
  2005

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WSS 3.0 General enhancements

• Improvement of views better calendar view,
  better support for filtering, ....
• No more unghosting
• Version limits
• Mobile support
• Offline support with Outlook
• Synchronous event handlers better support for
  all events
• Support for blogs and wikis
• Major and minor versions
• More info on
• http//jopx.blogspot.com/2005/09/enhancements-in-s
  harepoint-v3.html
• http//www.sharepointblogs.com/dustin/archive/2005
  /09/14/3503.aspx

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WSS 3.0 List features Part I

• Version history for all SharePoint items
• Shows changes to the item for each version
• Append-only comment fields
• Multi-valued lookup fields
• New listtype Project task list

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WSS 3.0 List features Part II

• E-mail integration Send email to list
• 2-way synchronisation with Outlook
• Replication possible with Replication API
• Associate site groups with distribution lists
• All SharePoint lists provide RSS feeds
• Custom column indexes for better performance

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WSS3.0 - Development

• Better development support
• All ASP.Net 2.0
• Global template
• Features framework
• Light up your sites add new functionality to
  existing sites
• Better extensibility of UI
• Better deployment enhancement on webpart
  packages
• Support for localization
• XSD delivered for XML schemas

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WSS 3.0 -Global template

• In V2 all common elements repeated in every
  site definition
• In V3 common elements in global template
• Base types
• Gallery definitions e.g. Webpart gallery,
  master page gallery

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WSS3.0 Features framework Part I

• Features SharePoint modules
• Group logical modules e.g. Knowledgebase
  feature
• Examples document library, lists, custom aspx
• Activate features through Site Settings (similar
  to Add/Remove programs), with stsadm.exe or with
  activation dependencies
• Feature callout

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WSS 3.0 Features Framework part II

• 12 hive
• Features folder with feature.xml
• Elements.xml shared schema.xml
• Contains Content types, events, listtemplates,
  listinstances,...
• ONET.XML contains of features

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WSS 3.0 Easier extension of the UI

• Navigation is not XML defined
• Example Adding a new custom menuitem
• Define the feature in XML add reference to
  ASP.Net 2.0 server control
• On activation of the feature add your own code to
  modify the navigation

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WSS 3.0 - Extending the UI
" Title"Site Actions Menu
Customization" Description"Test Site
Actions Menu Customization"
Version"12.0.0.0" Scope"Site"
xmlns"http//schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"
Location"operations.xml" /

" Location"Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardM
enu" GroupId"SiteActions"
Title"SiteActions Menu Customization"
ControlAssembly"SiteAction,Version1.0.2075.32537
,Cultureneutral,PublicKeyToken018d632ecf51b278"
ControlClass"SiteAction.SiteActionCustomi
zation"
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WSS Extending the UI
public class SiteActionCustomization
WebControl protected override void
CreateChildControls()
base.CreateChildControls()
MenuItemTemplate menuItem null
ToolBarMenuButton siteActionsControl
ToolBarMenuButton.GetMenuControl(this)
menuItem new MenuItemTemplate()
menuItem.ID "CustomAction"
menuItem.Text "Advanced Permissions"
menuItem.Description "Manage users for this
site." menuItem.Sequence 400
menuItem.ClientOnClickNavigateUrl
"/_layouts/user.aspx"
Controls.Add(menuItem)
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WSS 3.0 and workflow

• WWF hosted in WSS
• Integrated with Tasks, Mail, digital signature,
• Use Access 12 as tracking application
• Out of the box workflows
• Review, approval, signatures, translation,
  expiration
• Custom developed workflows
• FrontPage designer
• VS.Net
• Screenshots at http//www.gavd.net/servers/sharepo
  int/sps_item.aspx?top0itm152

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In the mean time WSS SP2

• WSS SP2 allows ASP.Net 2.0 code in WSS 2003
• ASP.Net 2.0 webparts not supported
• Possible solution SmartPart?
• More info released soon
• http//www.smartpart.info
• http//weblogs.asp.net/jan/

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CMSVNext

• Built on top of WSS 3.0
• Office 12 Web content management (WCM) service
• More OOB less code
• More info http//jopx.blogspot.com/2005/09/cmsvne
  xt-and-windows-sharepoint.html

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CMS VNext - Features

• Branding separate content from presentation
• Page Authoring web based or smart client
• Site navigation OOB controls and providers
• Publishing schedules, Approval workflow and
  Formatting restrictions
• Site management tools
• Performance ASP.Net caching, binary caching,
  use cache profiles,...
• Security, hardened for internet use
• Viewer role and membership provider
• Support for multilingual scenarios
• Search OOB
• Easy migration/upgrade scenarios

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CMSVNext vs MCMS

• MCMS Channel WSS 3.0 web
• Each web has a document library for Pages
• MCMS Template reference to page in Page Layout
  column
• MCMS placeholder WSS 3.0 field control
• Master pages supported
• Defines layout and navigation
• Content in WSS Pages library (special doclib)
• Navigation
• MCMS loop over channels and posting with PAPI
• MCMSVNext uses ASP.Net 2.0 navigation providers
• Approvals workflow
• MCMSVNext uses WWF-based workflow architecture

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InfoPath 12 Platform

• Browser enabled InfoPath forms with Forms server
• Offline data connections, New controls, Better
  printing
• Forms in Outlook
• Integrate InfoPath into your own apps
• Enhanced VSTO support
• Integration with workflow, IRM,
• More info http//www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/sa
  mple/DOMIS/update/2005/09sep/0905i1hftw.htm

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InfoPath 12
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Office Server Search

• Client Server search build on a shared
  technology
• Windows, MSN and Office use a single index and
  engine in Windows Vista
• Emphasis on better results
• Customize Search UI in SharePoint without code
• Search webparts properties
• Change XSLT for rendering results
• Search your business data
• Integrated with Business Data Catalog
• Write your own apps
• Search query object model or webservices

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Business Data Catalog

• Shared service for Office apps
• Connects SharePoint with Business Data LOB apps
• Metadata driven
• Describe systems API, methods, ...
• Expose Business entities
• Describe relationships between entities
  (Associations)
• How to retrieve an entity (Finder)
• More info http//weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archi
  ve/2005/09/15/425364.aspx

NameGetCustomer ...

... /
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Business Data Catalog

• Writeback possible
• Out of the box webparts available
• Business Data List webpart
• Business Data Detail webpart

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Resources

• PDC slidedecks http//commnet.microsoftpdc.com/co
  ntent/downloads.aspx
• WSS 3.0 Screenshots http//www.gavd.net/servers/s
  harepoint/sps_item.aspx?top0itm152
• WWF Getting started http//msdn.microsoft.com/
  windowsvista/building/workflow/default.aspx?pull/
  library/en-us/dnlong/html/WWFGetStart.asp
• SharePoint blogs
• http//blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick/ 
• http//blogs.msdn.com/pjhough/
• http//blogs.msdn.com/mikefitz/
• http//jopx.blogspot.com
• http//blogs.tamtam.nl/mart/default.aspx

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Resources Office 12 UI

• Office 12 Blog https//blogs.msdn.com/jensenh
• Office 12 Preview Screenshots http//bink.nu/Artic
  le4818.bink
• More Office 12 screenshots http//www.neowin.net/
  comments.php?id30382categorymain
• http//pdc.xbetas.com/?pageo12preview1
• http//markharrison.co.uk/blog/2005/09/new-user-in
  terface-for-office-12-core.htm

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Channel 9 Videos

• Diving into the Office UI http//channel9.msdn.co
  m/showpost.aspx?postid114720
• First look at next version of SharePoint
  http//channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid1153
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• SharePoint services and workflow
• http//channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid115
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• Office 12 New file format
• http//channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID733
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