I'm presenting at Exchange Connections 2008
It's official now - I'll be speaking about Exchange Web Services for Exchange 2007 at the Microsoft Exchange Connections 2008 conference in Orlando, FL April 27th-30th. If you're going to be there, by all means let me know!
Here are the three sessions I'll be doing on April 30th:
EXC22: Building Exchange Solutions With Visual Studio .NET
Let's take a lap around several of the new programming interfaces for Exchange 2007. By using the context of creating simple client or management applications, we'll demonstrate: using the .NET Framework Extensions for Exchange 2007 to work with the iCalendar Namespace to create and modify RFC2445 calendars and appointments; code some common operations with Contacts, Tasks, folders and messages; expand distribution lists; configure Exchange impersonation to get access to multiple mailboxes; create proxy classes to consume Exchange Web Services, and much more!
EXC21: Creative Uses for Exchange Web Services in SharePoint
SharePoint has many collaborative features that are available in team sites, such as Alerts, approval/Task notifications, linking with Outlook 2007, e-mail enabled Document Libraries, etc. However, the majority of this functionality depends on Outlook. What if we could manipulate data in Exchange directly without needing to use an e-mail client? We'll look at hooking Exchange Web Services into the many extensibility areas within SharePoint by utilizing Visual Studio 2008 and SharePoint Designer to develop creative collaborative functions and utilities such as: custom menu items to e-mail links to documents; copying Outlook-style list items to a similar folder in a Mailbox or Public Folder; creating copies of entire Discussion Lists in a Mailbox or Pubic Folder; building Web Parts to monitor Mailbox data or even view OOF/Availability indicators for colleagues - and much more!
EXC20: Porting Your Event Sink Code To Exchange Web Services
Have you developed event sinks that are doing some wonderful things with your pre-2007 servers? Don't throw them away – switch to using either Notification Push operations with Exchange Web Services or create Transport Agents. We'll look at how you can re-write your old VB6 code to use VB.NET with Visual Studio 2008 and leverage the new extensibility features in Exchange 2007.