MSDN Windows Vista and Microsoft Office Beta Experience Newsletter No. 3, May 9, 2006

Editorial

3ème édition de la newsletter Beta Experience pour Windows Vista et 2007 Microsoft Office system!

Parmis les changements les plus important dans 2007 Microsoft Office system pour les développeurs, on retrouve l'apect serveur et c'est pourquoi la plupart des sujets y sont dédiées pour vos donner une information utiles sur ces composants serveurs de 2007 Microsoft Office system. Pour la plupart d'entre vous, c'est votre première expérience avec les composants serveurs d'Office. Nous avons un vue d'ensemble pour les développeurs - une roadmap de l'aspect serveur pour les développeur de notre bon ami Ted Pattison. Ted nous a aussi concocté deux présentations sur la création d'application Portail.

Nous regarderons également la version 2007 d'Excel qui inclut les nouveaux composants Excel Server. Il y aurait beaucoup à dire pour couvrir Excel 2007 et nous irons plus en profondeur avec Excel Server dans la Sécurité et la Business Intelligence prévue en septembre.

Finallement pour prendre part à notre serie d'interview exclusifs, Doug Mahugh s'entretiendra avec Kurt DelBene, Corporate VP de Office Server Group à propos de SharePoint V3.

Notre prochaine édition devrait s'attarder sur la beta 2 de 2007 Microsoft Office system. Dès que cette version est disponible, vous recevrez une notifications !

A partir de ce moment là, vous aurez l'opportunité de télécharger et d'expérimenter par vous même, et donc nous vous fournirons plus d'informations pratiques, d'exemples détaillés avec des codes sources que vous pourez utiliser.

Lucas Riedberger
Responsable relation marketing pour les développeurs
Microsoft France

Hungry for Data – RSS support in Windows Vista

With more than 60 million blogs out there, chances are that you are reading what is going on in the blogosphere. MSN spaces alone host more than 14 million blogs.
The weblog phenomenon, and the sheer numbers of Microsoft internal bloggers made the Internet Explorer team to include an RSS reader in the upcoming version 7 of Internet Explorer.
But this would not be reason enough for this month’ Beta Experience newsletter to focus on RSS. The real reason is: you can participate from the RSS phenomenon by programming against the Windows RSS Platform API.
Current versions of RSS and syndication standards make it possible not only to distribute blogs and newsfeed: you can use them in exciting new ways. Feeds can be used as a versatile notification and distribution mechanism - for any kind of data including multimedia files.

In order to better transport and consume structured data such as lists, Microsoft is proposing the 'Simple List Extensions' as a convention how to represent lists. This works equally well in RSS 2.0 and Atom Feeds.
Read more about Programming RSS in Windows Vista!

RSS Links
Integrate Data: An overview of RSS in Windows Vista (anglais)
Windows Vista - Centre de Développement
RSS in Windows Vista
The IE Team Blog
Simple List Extension Specification (anglais)
Windows Vista RSS Platform API Reference (anglais)
Windows Vista RSS Platform API Documentation on MSDN (anglais)

2007 Microsoft Office system

Office 2007 client presents developers with new an exciting opportunities to create applications with a compelling user experience. The new Ribbon Interface presents end users with friendly and context sensitive navigation options and Customization options provide the developers with the tools to add custom controls, and thus enhance the user experience.
To learn more about the Office 2007 User Interface click here!

On March 21, 2006 Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect, debuted many of the new development possibilities afforded by the 2007 Microsoft Office system to an audience of professional developers attending the Office Developer Conference. See what Bill and Office Servers VP, Kurt Delbene had to say about developing on the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

Want the inside track on what the Microsoft Office development teams are up to? Read their thoughts on everything from the new Office user interface to file formats to SharePoint. Check out the Office Developer Center blogs!

Egalement disponibles toutes les Webcast sur Office System de DevDays 2006 en français en vous connectant à l'espace des DevDays.

Internet Explorer 7 and RSS

Download Internet Explorer 7

Download and evaluate the newest, layout-complete build of the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview and explore the improvements in security, user interface, and development platform.

RSS Feeds

Internet Explorer 7 automatically detects RSS feeds on sites by illuminating an icon on the toolbar. A single click on the icon allows you to preview and optionally subscribe to the site's RSS feed, and then be automatically notified as content is updated. Read RSS feeds directly in the browser, scan for important stories, and filter your view with search terms or site-specific categories.

RSS Platform

Internet Explorer 7 provides rich functionality for downloading, storing, and accessing RSS feeds across the entire operating system, and enables more users than ever before to embrace RSS. Once a feed is subscribed to in one application, that subscription, and all the associated content, will be made available across the operating system for any application that wishes to consume it.

Visit the Internet Explorer blog to learn and discuss the latest issues concerning Internet Explorer.

Find the latest Internet Explorer 7 developer information and participate in Internet Explorer 7 newsgroups! Click here

Community

Microsoft Code Master Challenge: March 20th - July 31st

Calling all developers, system builders, and ISVs: build the best new application with Windows Vista and win US$50,000. There are no limits to what you can create, and the app is yours to keep or sell. We won’t even ask for your coding secrets. Learn more

RSS - a revolution in content distribution

Emanuele DelBono is a Software Architect and .NET developer at Managed Designs. He is known as a teacher, author for programming magazines and speaker at technical conferences and workshops.
Read his article on RSS and his blog!

WinFX Tour

The WinFX Tour is coming to Europe. WinFX is our next-generation developer platform and will be released with Windows Vista. Developers that want to build visually stunning and connected applications will want to use WinFX to differentiate their apps from their competitors and create greater brand awareness. The main components of WinFX are Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF).

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