Get the practical guide to implementing the Microsoft Office system as an application-development platform.This book highlights the breadth of approaches developers can take for extending line-of-business information to information workers in the familiar, usable format of the Ms Office interface. These approaches, Ms Office Business Application (OBA) patterns, are based on real-world implementations in many cases. In other cases, they are built on Ms Office features that have a generalized solution rooted in input from customers and partners.This reference delivers the seven key Ms Office Business Application patterns and provides professional developers with extensible examples and the architectural guidance needed for developing custom enterprise applications and extending business information to users.