This was a good talk but skip the first 20 minutes as it is John just reading his power point slides. It's faster to just read the slides. He then shoots in to a number of things you can do with Office from a developer's point of view. This includes tying data to office (including when it is offline), co-authoring, backstage views, office services, using BCS, listing work items, create tasks in a document, and a couple of other things. Good stuff to see.
Warning – you won't see a single line of code. He also uses a lot of custom widgets where things magically happen in them – but no info no how. He talked up Access a lot – basically saying it's worth another look. His examples on Office services we're pretty simplistic. I think there's a lot of cool new features in Office, and this is a good way to see what you should go check out. But it's not going to give you a detailed picture nor is it going to show you how to use this functionality.
So a good step 1.
He also suggested as resources Office Developer Guild and his blog.
Ps - The new Office 2010 has some really cool stuff in it.
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