On Wednesday, June 17, 2009, Microsoft Indonesia held an event entitled "Light Up Your Office: Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)" at Microsoft Auditorium, BEJ building, Sudirman Jakarta.
The event was held for about 8 hours, it was start at 8 in the morning and finished at 5 pm. The audiences were very participated well, even though they had to wait quite long. It was attended by more less than 50 attendees, they came from various profession such as programmer or IT manager from end user companies (Astra International, Bakrie Telecom, etc). Andri Yadi, CEO of DyCode, delivered a speaking in this event. He represented knowledge about how to build Office Business Application that leverages Microsoft Excel, ADO.NET Entity Framework, and ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) which are some of his expertises. All the audiences in the auditorium had a very good attention when Andri Yadi started to share the knowledge one by one. Sometimes they also asked several questions and ofcourse Andri felt very pleased to answer all of those questions with very conscientious. At the end they seemed satisfy with the answers and the explanation
Training Agenda:
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Registration | |
| 09.00 – 10.00 | OBA: Business Case, Technology Landscape & Architectural Patterns | Norman Sasono
Developer Advisor |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | Developing Document Centric Solution in Microsoft Word with VSTO | Wely Developer Advisor |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Special Session: Windows 7 Application Compatibility | Narenda Wicaksono
Technical Advisor |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13.00 – 14.30 | Optimizing OBA Spreadsheet Productivity with Excel and VSTO | Andri Yadi
Microsoft MVP, VSTO |
| 14.30 – 14.45 | Coffee Break | |
| 14.45 – 16.00 | Developing Outlook Add-Ins for OBA Solution | Agus Suhanto
Microsoft MVP, ASP.NET |
| 16:00-16:30 | Case Study on VSTO | Y Ravisankar
Product Manager |
The presentation slide and demo source code can be downloaded at: http://dycode.com/files/folders/other_talks/entry197.aspx