Learn How to Customize Outlook’s User Interface (attend my session at Tech-Ed)

 

Next week I am presenting a session at Tech-Ed that shows off a few cool techniques for customizing Outlook. I’ll presenting with one a fellow Cogent Company cohort, Damon Armstrong.

If you are interested in customizing Outlook and want to learn how to customize its UI then you don’t want to miss this session. We’ll cover the basics while implementing a business process that allows us to show more advanced techniques.

In fact, we’ll show you to do this:

HTasks

Trust me you want to attend…especially because you learn just how simple a solution like this can be.

Below is the full session abstract copied from the official Tech-Ed 2009 site.

See you in LA!

OFC325 Building Custom Applications in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

Ty Anderson, Damon Armstrong

Tue 5/12 | 2:45 PM-4:00 PM | Room 408A

Tags:

300 – Advanced, Breakout Session, Developer, Developer Manager, Microsoft® Office Suites, Office and SharePoint, Solutions Architect, Yes, Yes

This session covers strategies for customizing Outlook for your unique business requirements. The session covers how to build task panes (for Inspectors and Explorers), form regions, custom Ribbons, and more. A real-world business scenario is used to provide context as each demo builds upon itself to show how each UI component can work with each other. In addition, other features like data storage, views, and search are covered.

Writing Reports with Office Apps

I recently wrote up a review of my experience with OfficeWriter – an easy to use and powerful tool for writing reports with Excel and Word.
 
One of my largest projects last year was a data warehouse and reporting solution build entirely with SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services. SQL Reports is really easy to work with (if you can build an report with Access you can use SQL Reports) but I wish I knew about OfficeWriter during the project.
 
This tool is what I would have recommended the business users learn for writing ad-hoc reports.
 
If you are building reports for your solutions, I think this article will be worth your time.
 
 
–ty