Another OBA video on Channel 9 about Health Plan RAP, if you have users who prefer to work inside Office apps rather than leaving the familiar environment for an app built from the ground up, then you’ll find this interview interesting…

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=317909

Refering to my previous posting sometimes ago, Biztalk Services is really something too new from MS and there are a lot of question about it. In this video, James Conard talks with John Shewchuk and Dennis Pilarinos about BizTalk Services.

In the simplest definition, BizTalk Services simplifies application connectivity by extending WCF and providing a set of hosted services. John and Dennis quickly explain BizTalk Services by discussing the challenges with building applications today. Dennis also shows four demos of BizTalk Services and then drops into Visual Studio along the way to show the programming model.

This is a list of Office Business Application Reference Application Packs for various verticals:

1. Health Care
2. Banking (Loan Origination)
3. Supply Chain Management
4. Retail
5. Store Operations
6. Manufacturing (Price Management / Rosetta Net)
7. Public Sector (e-forms processing)
8. Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics

 This site contains more than 70 how-tos in OBA, below is a list of categories/ products covered

1. Access 2007
2. Excel 2007
3. Infopath 2007
4. Office Fluent Ribbon
5. Outlook 2007
6. PowerPoint 2007
7. SharePoint Server 2007
8. VSTO 2005 2nd Edition
9. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
10. Word 2007
11. OpenXML

Click here to download the videos

Andrew Connell and Spencer Harbar annouces 2 CodePlex projects today to enable community to share examples of useful publishing site elements build using the Web Content management feature of MOSS 2007.

The projects are broken down as follow:

SharePoint 2007 WCM Field Controls
A collection of sample Field Controls for use within Publishing Sites built using Office SharePoint Server 2007′s Web Content Management features.

• MultimediaFieldControl: Custom field type and control allowing content authors to specify a URL, width and height of a media file (SWF, PDF, WMV, MPEG, AVI, MPG, MOV) and renders the display of the control with the appropriate ActiveX control markup.

SharePoint 2007 WCM Web Parts
A collection of sample Web Parts for use within Publishing Sites built using Office SharePoint Server 2007′s Web Content Management features.

• FAQWebPart: Web Part that allows business users to contribute to a frequently asked questions list which is rendered with DHTML allowing users to expand/collapse each FAQ item.
• RandomFlashMovieWebPart: Web Part that allows a content author to select one or more Flash movies from a SharePoint library. The Web Part will then display one of the Flash movies, at random, in display mode.
• ThumbnailWebPart: Content authors can specify a SharePoint library containing images that the Web Part will generate thumbnails for. It allows content authors to specify the size, sort order and the number of thumbnails to be displayed in one row.

SharePoint 2007 WCM Utilities
A collection of useful utilities for Publishing Sites built using Office SharePoint Server 2007′s Web Content Management features.

• METATagsGenerator: This ASP.NET 2.0 server control renders HTML <META> tags for each field in the current page’s content type.
• PropertyBagFeature: Allows content authors to modify values within the property bag of pages… similar to the custom properties provided in MCMS 2002.
• SharePointSSLHttpModule: Makes it easy for developers to SSL enable certain parts of a MOSS 2007 WCM Publishing site.

Link to Announcing three CodePlex projects for community WCM code samples