With the announcement yesterday, I can finally openly jump up in the air and celebrate being asked to speak at TechEd Australia! The session got published yesterday on the TechEd web site that I am co-presenting with Andrew Coates (@coatsy) from Microsoft!

It is a real honour for me to be able to present at TechEd, but also to be presenting alongside someone I have so much respect for also! One of my blogs most popular posts was triggered from discussions had with Andrew at a Perth SharePoint User Group where he was pitching VSTO to us – have a read here.

I’m really looking forward to co-presenting with Andrew on this one. It’s going to be interesting balancing the decision on building solutions in SharePoint and VSTO and demonstrating the tools available, no doubt to: SharePoint newbies, VSTO newbies and the gray area in the middle ;-)

The abstract is below:

DEV340 Building Solutions with SharePoint and Visual Tools for Office

"The Microsoft Office system evolved from a suite of personal productivity products into a comprehensive, multifaceted, and integrated system. Building on a solid foundation of familiar tools, the Microsoft Office system today includes applications, servers, services, and technologies designed to work together to solve a wide array of business problems. Jeremy Thake and Andrew Coates will present the SharePoint server and Office client tools available. This session will walk you through the journey of discovery on how to best leverage the client/server platform to build your solutions. Discussions around the new client side VSTO tools and the server side VSeWSS tools will focus on the creation of solutions from initial development to deployment. Come along to this demo-filled session to learn how to take advantage of the millions of programming hours that have gone into the Office platform and the .NET Framework and truly Stand on the Shoulders of Giants!"