Programming Microsoft® Office Business Applications

Summary

This Recruiting scenario shows how the services offered by the 2007 Office System platform enable developers to build S+S-rich OBAs. A custom task pane, built using VSTO in VS 2008, hosted our solution, enabling the recruiter to live in the Word application while accessing different systems and performing multiple tasks. From a development perspective, we were able to pull data from SharePoint lists using the lists Web service so that the end user could access best practices from the enterprise portal. We used Excel Services Web services to calculate a candidate’s salary range based on a model that was created in a spreadsheet, published, and calculated on the server. The recruiter was also able to retrieve specific candidates or a list ...