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At the Office Developer Conference today (February 11, 2008), Javed Sikander Sr. Director Platform Architecture, Microsoft announced the availability of the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit. The toolkit is available as a free download, it allows Information Workers to easily compose Office Business Applications from OBA Components such as SharePoint Web parts, content types, site pages, workflows, BDC application definitions, Visual Studio Tools for Office add-ins and Line of Business systems data sources. This toolkit is an illustration of composition capabilities of the 2007 Microsoft Office System and provides best practices and guidelines for building composite solutions.

The next patterns & practices Summit takes place May 6 - 8 in the Pavillon La Laurentienne on the Université Laval campus in Quebec City, Canada. Keynote presentations by Don Ferguson, Scott Hanselman and Jim Newkirk.

Demonstrating many of the UX principles highlighted in recent issues, this reader is a locally installed application that enables you to take every issue of the Journal into a searchable, immersive, and easy-to-read experience. The application synchronizes with our content management services so that you'll automatically have access to the latest Journal issues without needing to download PDF files or checking online.

The past SAF conference was hosted at the MS Conference Center (Redmond, USA) over three days during November, 2007. All the keynotes and informational sessions are available here for download.