Attend my TechEd Session Next Week

I can't believe in just a few days I'll be heading to speak at TechEd. This will be my 5th year as a TechEd speaker and I have to tell you that my spider senses are telling me this is going to be the best one yet. There is a lot of great Office content that will be presented. If you're an Office fan you should leave happy.

Next week there are at least three new office technologies that will be show to the public for the first time or in a much more complete form:

• I can't tell you about the first one yet, but check back with us Monday for info on this new technology and a new section on the OfficeZealot.com web site related to this technology. I promise you this is cool stuff!
• The second is the Visual Studio Tools for Office Team will be presenting sessions on their next version. This isn't exactly new, except the team continues to make steady progress on the technology. So I'm guessing their will be new tidbits about the technology presented.
• Third, is a new toolkit related to developing Microsoft Office 2003 Research Services. I've been working on Research Services for the last 4 months and have not been able to talk about it, so next week I'm excited to be presenting this toolkit.

Did the term Research Services sound new to you? If so, I'm not surprised. Research Services is a new technology introduced with Microsoft Office 2003. Sadly, few people know about it. Office 2003 had so many great new technologies for developers that this new technology gets drowned out by all the noise surrounding things like XML, Smart Documents, Shared Workspaces and .NET development with Office.

For me though, Research Services easily ranks as a contender for best new developer technology in Office 2003.

Here are the details to my session:

BPR314 Office Developer: Delivering Rich Information via Research Services Thursday, May 27 5:00 PM- 6:15 PM, Room 32AB Session Description: Business Productivity Solutions, Developer Tools and Technologies The Office Research task pane is being rapidly adopted due to its straightforward, elegant interface. Learn how it is a powerful tool for exposing your data to employees and customers within the task pane of their Office applications by using .NET Web services. See the latest techniques for building a Research Service, including strategies for off-line use. Get up-to-speed with the Research task pane extensibility model and learn how to give users the data they need at their fingertips.

My good buddy Charles Maxson will be there and we would love to connect with our readers. Stop by and say hello.