Join Eric Schnepp, Principal Program Manager in the VSTO team in this screencast to see how it all works.

Length: 8:08

Description: Join Don Campbell, Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, and Michael Scherotter, Solutions Platform Evangelist for Mindjet, to see a demonstration solution from the Mindjet Labs that uses the Open XML file format of Microsoft Office Word 2007 to transform business data from MindManager to Word 2007 and back again.

This technical demonstration shows how high-fidelity round-trip scenarios are possible with the Open XML file formats when used in conjunction with other XML-based applications, like Mindjet MindManager.

In the export to the Open XML file format, this solution creates a custom Ribbon UI tab embedded in the document. This allows the Word 2007 user to take advantage of some of the visual organization and project planning capabilities of MindManager while using Microsoft Word 2007.

This also highlights the MindManager Solution Platform which makes such integrations easy, quick, and visual.

Time: 38:26

In the screencast, you'll see how to use the data capture web part to capture "leads" from the public web site and update a new Web Leads area in the Business Contact Manager (BCM).  This triggers a workflow to e-mail to a business manager to qualify it.  This person can then initiate another workflow to move the lead to the BCM contacts list.

Related Links:

• Office Live Developer Guide
• MSDN Office Live Developer Portal
• MSDN Forums for Office Live
• Office Live web site

Duration: 26:59

Office Live is built on Windows SharePoint Services v3 and as a result, leverages the powerful new Windows Workflow Foundation. 

This screencast builds on the scenario in the Using the Data Form Web Part in Office Live screencast by automating the inventory order process with business logic and workflow.

Related Links:

• Office Live Developer Guide
• MSDN Office Live Developer Portal
• MSDN Forums for Office Live
• Office Live web site

The Data form web part can consume data from various data sources including SharePoint lists, SharePoint libraries, server side scripts, RSS feeds, XML files, databases, web services, or an aggregation of these sources.

Using ASP.NET 2.0 data source controls, the data form web part retrieves data as an XML document, and then uses XSLT to transform the data for the browser. 

Related Links:

• Office Live Developer Guide
• MSDN Office Live Developer Portal
• MSDN Forums for Office Live
• Office Live web site

Video length: 17:16

• Office Live Developer Guide
• MSDN Office Live Developer Portal
• MSDN Forums for Office Live
• Office Live web site
  

Video Length: 13:36

Microsoft has adopted the Office Open XML file format, as the new default file format for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 to reduce file size, improve reliability, guarantee long term accessibility for archiving, and enhance interoperability with business solutions. The Open XML formats are designed to enable the free exchange of data between documents and the systems that contain them. Finally, as one of the key design goals behind the Office Open XML formats was to maintain compatibility with the existing base of Microsoft Office documents, solution providers can have confidence that their solutions will work not just with the documents of the future but with the billions of documents already in use today.

Related Links:

MSDN Word Developer Portal
MSDN XML in Office Developer Portal

Themes are one of the most useful features new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. Put simply, a document Theme is a set of fonts, colors, and graphic/chart effects that are complementary and applied globally to documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. This screencast demonstrates how a Word document’s Theme is automatically applied to “pasted” content. Translation: you can reuse content from PowerPoint and Excel in Word, and vice versa, without having to reformat everything. A chart copied from an Excel spreadsheet with Theme X applied, will take on Theme Y when pasted into a Word document that has Theme Y applied to it. Put simply, pasted content 'fits in' with the rest of the document.

Related Links:
Jonathan Bailor’s Theming post
Microsoft Office Word team blog
Brian Jones' OpenXML Formats blog

MSDN Word Developer Portal
MSDN XML in Office Developer Portal

Microsoft has adopted the Office Open XML file format, as the new default file format for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 to reduce file size, improve reliability, guarantee long term accessibility for archiving, and enhance interoperability with business solutions. The Open XML formats are designed to enable the free exchange of data between documents and the systems that contain them. Finally, as one of the key design goals behind the Office Open XML formats was to maintain compatibility with the existing base of Microsoft Office documents, solution providers can have confidence that their solutions will work not just with the documents of the future but with the billions of documents already in use today.

Related Links:

MSDN Word Developer Portal
MSDN XML in Office Developer Portal

Microsoft has adopted the Office Open XML file format, as the new default file format for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 to reduce file size, improve reliability, guarantee long term accessibility for archiving, and enhance interoperability with business solutions. A key piece of the integrating the contents of Office documents with business data is the ability to structure those documents semantically.

Word 2007 builds on top of the custom defined schema support introduced in Word 2003 and offers an extremely robust way to structure the contents of a document. In addition to allowing the solution builder to structure a Word template, they can then map those structures to their own custom XML schemas which allows the developers to program directly against the data rather than against the application’s object model. This allows for much simpler and more reliable solutions than in the past, and even allows the valuable contents within the documents to maintain a direct mapping to business data without writing any code. As Brian shows in this demo, that includes business data that exists within an Excel Spreadsheet.

Related Links:
Microsoft Office Word team blog
Brian Jones' OpenXML Formats blog

MSDN Word Developer Portal
MSDN XML in Office Developer Portal

Related Links:

MSDN Word Developer Portal
MSDN XML in Office Developer Portal

You can do the same kind of thing in Excel 2007. In a three-part series on his blog -- part 1, part 2, and part 3 -- Brian shows how little XML is required to create a spreadsheet, populate it with data, add functions that operate on the data, and apply formatting.

Because it's now possible to create Office 2007 documents in these ways, using standard XML-oriented tools, developers on all platforms can now much more easily make information in other formats available to users of Office 2007.

In this screencast, Word program manager Jonathan Bailor shows how to how to create a professional looking document in less than five minutes using Live Preview, Theming, Quick Styles, Document Parts, and more, in Word 2007

When this solution exports a map to a Word file -- in Open XML format -- there are two levels of integration with Word. First, the contents of the map are rendered as XML. Second, mechanisms for interacting with the map are added to a new tab on the Word ribbon. MindManager has a notion of tasks, for example, with associated names and dates. These carry over to the MindManager tab on Word's ribbon, where the same kinds of interaction are supported by Word macros. Because the macros are included in the Word file, it's stored as a .docm (macro-enabled) file, rather than simply a .docx (XML) file.

Word users can not only interact with the map, they can also reflect their changes back to MindManager users. This round-trip interoperability is accomplished entirely with XSLT transformations in both directions. The solution itself is a C# add-in to MindManager.