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Taking your Research Service for Microsoft Office Offline

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If you have dreamed of creating your own Research Service and making data available offline, then things just got easier. If you are not sure what I am talking about, I am referring to the Research task pane in Office 2003:

What's great is that you can create your own Research service provider. Want to let Office users search your corp data and plug search results right into a document? That's what it's all about.

In one of my articles, I showed how to roll your own from scratch: "The Definitive Hello World Custom Research Service Tutorial"

However, this presumes a connected model. What if the client is offline, but I want the same search and action functionality? That's what this article shows you how to do:

Build Office 2003 Research Services That Work Offline

Written by the venerable Chris Kunicki with John Murray (also a rock star coder), they show you how to create a Research provider that will work in a connected and disconnected world without the user needing to know a thing about it. It's an intelligent model. There is an accompanying download.

Check it out.

 

Rock on.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/office

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2004
    John R. Durant points to an MSDN article on how to build Office research panes with offline access support. It's good that Office is finally becoming a decent Intranet client....