Chapter 11: Integrating SharePoint with Microsoft Office
What You’ll Learn in This Chapter:
- Creating integrated Office 2010 solutions using both no-code and code options
- Using content types as documents you can map to your document libraries
- Using InfoPath for forms processing and management
- Using a workflow to manage your business processes
- Using Office 2010 server-side services to augment your SharePoint solutions
It’s almost impossible to talk about SharePoint without discussing Office, because they are so tightly integrated in a number of ways. For the end user, many of the Office 2010 features provide improved features for integrating with SharePoint — such as the Office Web Application view and editing capabilities, publish to SharePoint, and many document management capabilities. For the developer, the bar has been raised even more in 2010. For example, you have a wide array of possibilities to integrate your Office 2010 solutions with SharePoint. The great thing is that you also have a choice that takes you from many no-code options for integrating with Office to more code-heavy solutions so that you can customize your solutions.
In this chapter, you’ll see both no-code and code solutions that will cut across technologies such as content types, InfoPath, SharePoint workflow, server-side services (that is, Visio Services, Excel Services, Access Services, and Word Services), and Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) customizations that integrate with SharePoint lists. ...
