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Connecting Microsoft Word 2007 to a backend database in an Office Business Application (OBA)

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17 Sep 2007CPOL8 min read 84.8K   2.7K   31  
In this lab, you use drag and drop functionality to add controls to a Word 2007 template, build logic into those controls, protect the content of the controls from editing and deleting, and add simple data binding to a local database. Then, you’ll add a Fluent Ribbon to Word to browse the data.

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Bruce is an architect evangelist for Microsoft serving independent software vendors (ISVs) in the Pacific Northwest. In earlier lives he's worked for Rogue Wave Software, Carnegie Mellon University's Human Computer Interaction Institute, John Deere, and a couple startups including one that is now part of IBM. Bruce learned programming using punch cards (do not fold, spindle, mutilate, or shuffle). On weekends Bruce often writes code with his son on a project using .NET 3.5 technologies. Bruce lives in Carnation, Washington home to Carnation Dairy which was founded there about 100 years ago.

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