Slide deck from my presentation at the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta, February 27, 2010.

1. Creating Personalized Documents with a Mashup of Technologies …and some other nifty stuff James Johnson Founder and President, Inland Empire .NET User’s Group Microsoft MVP e: james@iedotnetug.org t:@latringo www.duringlunch.com

2. Been around for a hundred bazillion years Well actually since 2002 Build controls for Web forms, MVC, Windows Forms Silverlight, WPF Testing Tools A whole boatload of stuff www.telerik.com Telerik

3. Founder and President of the Inland Empire .NET User’s Group Independent Consultant Microsoft MVP ADHD/ADD/OCD when it comes to new technology Can’t stay away from the shiny new stuff. About Me

4. Built custom system to generate large mail merge documents. Needed way to integrate SQL Server, document editing, mail merge capabilities, and saving in Office 2007 format in an “access from anywhere” format. Um… ok Overview

5. SQL Server 2008 for data storage Entity Framework for data access ASP.NET MVC for “access anywhere” jQuery for building client functionality TelerikRadEditor for document editing OpenXML SDK for creating Office 2007 format docs Architecture

6. Ok, let’s see this wonderful thing Demo

7. Can take some time to grok Somewhat similar to LINQ to SQL But different Main gotcha Need to check for and load relationships of the entity if (!doc.MergeDocumentTypeReference.IsLoaded) doc.MergeDocumentTypeReference.Load();doc.MergeDocumentType.DocumentTypeId Entity Framework

8. So, yet something else to learn? Demo

9. Easy – to modify interface Lots of Ajaxy goodness Able to access from anywhere with a well known technology Fast development Just ‘cause ASP.NET MVC

10. A popular Rich Text Editor control for ASP.NET Customizable, but with some pain Formats text with CSS Client side access to properties and methods TelerikRadEditor

11. But I don’t want it to look like that! I want it to look like this! Demo

12. “OpenXMLis based on XML, which confers the benefits of preservation, interoperability, and extensibilty. It is designed to support the existing features of word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.” www.openxml.biz Format for generating Office 2007+ documents Can use on a server Easy, POCO functionality OpenXML

13. There must be something wrong. It can’t be *this* easy. Demo

14. Questions?

15. Win the Telerik controls suiteTweet #telerik#rmtechtrifecta