Patrick Schmid is a OneNote MVP, in his blog there is an entry called Office UI Bible will list down webpages and blog entries (mostly from Jensen Harris) about the How, What and Why of the new Office 2007 UI, especially the ribbon interface and the themes.

Source: pschmid.net – pschmid.net: Putting You & I back into Office 2007’s Ribbon UI – The Office UI Bible

I been looking out for a simple demo to show how many steps and how many line of codes I need to write to demo to people a simple custom ribbon and task pane solution. To be exact I found this demo video in MSDN website which show me that I need just around 10 lines of codes to do such a demo.

Check it out, just like creating a ‘Hello World’ console app.

Erika compiled a list of video how-tos here.  There are about 50+ of them showing you how to develop on MOSS, WSS, Office 2007 client.

Link to Erika Ehrli : New Office Visual How-tos: MOSS and WSS 3.0

 Office Business Applications are consist of combining different components within the 2007 MS Office System such as Office 2007 client, Biztalk 2006, MOSS 2007, and SQL Server 2005. This article shows how to create a development environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System.

Link to Setting Up a Development Environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System