RE: [odf-adoption] 'Open by Design (redux)' for Novatica and Upgrade Publication

["Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

Hi everyone,

  I can also chime in here, but feel free to disregard my comments :-)
Programming Microsoft Office no longer requires VBA although it can still be
used with Office 2003. Instead the preferred method of choice is Visual Studio
Tools for Microsoft Office (now in it's 2nd edition) which allows for a rich
object-oriented development environment in both Visual Basic and C (I forget
which flavor of C). A full set of XML classes are provided that allow
interaction with a custom schema and any user-initiated event can be trapped and
programmed against. VSTO 2005 allows you to actually open up the specific
desktop application within the development environment and program directly
against it. It may be proprietary, but it's really very easy to use. 

  I'm certainly not suggesting that you tout the Microsoft development
environment, but saying that it's limited to VBA is completely inaccurate.

Regards,

Mary 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erwin.Tenhumberg@Sun.COM [mailto:Erwin.Tenhumberg@Sun.COM] 
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 6:05 AM
> To: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com; carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
> Cc: odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [odf-adoption] 'Open by Design (redux)' for 
> Novatica and Upgrade Publication
> 
> I'm less experienced with the type of articles that 
> Novatica/Upgrade requested, but is the white paper the right 
> style? In addition, can a TC white paper also be published as 
> an article?
> 
> 
> In addition, since the document has an OASIS logo and thus 
> represents the TC, I do not fully agree to the following statement:
> 
> "Today, programming with document data is too complex and 
> platform dependent. MicrosoftR Office software requires 
> developers to use Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, a 
> Microsoft WindowsR software-only and Microsoft Office 
> software only programming language and interface. 
> Alternatively, developers working with StarOffice or 
> OpenOffice must rely on the Universal Network Objects (UNO) 
> application programming interface. None of these technologies 
> interoperates well with independently developed third-party 
> technologies."
> 
> This lets UNO appear as limited as the Microsoft technology, 
> which I personally believe is not the case. OpenOffice.org 
> including the UNO component model is open source and 
> available on multiple platforms. In addition, UNO has 
> multiple language bindings. Therefore, I don't fully agree 
> with the "None of these technologies interoperates well with 
> independently developed third-party technologies." 
> conclusion, considering that quite a few people are 
> integrating OpenOffice.org and UNO for ODF viewing, editing 
> and conversion purposes.
> 
> 
> Except that, I'm o.k. with the content.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Erwin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> donald_harbison@us.ibm.com wrote:
> > 
> > Dear ODF Adoption TC,
> > 
> > I took the liberty of extending Erwin's excellent paper 
> with content 
> > from the 'Opportunities for Innovations' paper, additional content 
> > from the ODF specification itself, and some content from 
> Rob. I hope I 
> > didn't create a 'Frankenstein', so I'll leave it to you to 
> judge. The 
> > goal was to create more of monograph that covers the basics 
> (Erwin did 
> > that very nicely), adds some additional technical information and 
> > updates for the Sub Committee work, and ends with some of 
> the forward 
> > looking information as presented in the 'innovations' paper. I 
> > couldn't resist adding Rob's 'Twenty Things You Can Do with 
> > ODF'...since they are so straightforward and easily understood.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > We have until Wed., 12/20 to submit this, an extension from today.
> > 
> > Erwin, since you will be hosting on Tues., 12/19, can you 
> please add 
> > this item for review, discussion and approval for publication?
> > 
> > thanks!
> > 
> > Don Harbison
> > Program Director, IBM ODF Initiative
> > Business & Technical Strategy
> > IBM Software Group
> > tel:1-978-399-7018
> > Mobile: +1-978-761-0116
> > email: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com
> > 
>