Andrew Whitechapel Wins Session of the Day Award in my Book

All week I?ve been attending a lot of exciting Office sessions and the content is superb. The planners behind the Office content have done the best job I?ve seen in years. The content is focused, relevant, useful today and providing guidance for tomorrow. APPLAUSE to the Office team for a job well done.

I?ve not commented on other sessions this week, as I wanted to focus your attention on IBF as they were announced this week. A lot of work has gone into this product and this conference in behalf of the IBF team and I did not want to steal any of their thunder. It?s their day in the spotlights and its well earned.

However, I do have to mention one session of note.

One great session I attended today was that of Andrew Whitechapel entitled "Lifetime Management for Office Development with Visual Studio .NET?. This session discussed various problems and solutions to dealing with COM interop development with Microsoft Office and .NET. I have to say, I got the best advice on this subject from this one hour session than in the year and a half I?ve been personally researching this topic. I guess this is why people come to conferences :-)

Andrew does a very nice job of spelling out the problems and presenting practical field tested solutions. Great job Andrew, thanks for you?re hard work on the presentation.

Also during Andrew?s session he showed a wizard he has been working on that will help developers to easily build a SHIM for smart tags, COM Add-ins, and real-time data servers that will basically take care of the security and .NET AppDomain problems people have encountered. As soon as it find a home and is available I?ll blog about it.

Finally, one other note. Today the Visual Studio Tools for Office team had a remote control balloon. I?m posting a brief video shot for those who are interested.