Visual Studio Tools for Office, Addison-Wesley
Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Visual C# (CSharp, C Sharp, C-Sharp) Developer Training, Visual Studio
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C# Online.NET Book Review
Office is one of Microsoft's cash cows. And, Microsoft wants developers to leverage Office and .NET to create new applications. So, they set two of their most experienced men to write a guide and tutorial for using C# with Excel, Infopath, Outlook, and Word. The authors have great credentials for the task. And, they happen to be decent tech writers. The result is a magnificent tome of information for Office developers.
Originally, Office could be programmed only using macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). But, not that much beyond simple task automation could be accomplished. Enterprise level applications were impossible or impractical.
Now, with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO), developers can leverage the powerful .NET libraries and gain greater access to the Office object models. The integration is an ongoing process since not all aspects of Office programming have been .NET-ified yet.
This book is well written and contains plenty of C# examples and proofs of concept. It shows how to create add-ins, how to access the Object models, how to automate Office methods, and how to integrate your application with Office.
Bottom line
Visual Studio Tools for Office is the authoritative guide and tutorial for Office developers.
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From the back cover
Visual Studio Tools for Office is both the first and the definitive book on VSTO 2005 programming, written by the inventors of the technology. VSTO is a set of tools that allow professional developers to use the full power of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework to put code behind Excel 2003, Word 2003, Outlook 2003, and InfoPath 2003. VSTO provides functionality never before available to the Office developer: data binding and data/view separation, design-time views of Excel and Word documents inside Visual Studio, rich support for Windows Forms controls in a document, the ability to create custom Office task panes, server-side programming support against Office, and much more.
Carter and Lippert cover their subject matter with deft insight into the needs of .NET developers learning VSTO. This book
- Explains the architecture of Microsoft Office programming and introduces the object models
- Teaches the three basic patterns of Office solutions: Office automation executables, Office add-ins, and code behind a document
- Explores the ways of customizing Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath, and plumbs the depths of programming with their events and object models
- Introduces the VSTO programming model
- Teaches how to use Windows Forms in VSTO and how to work with the Actions Pane
- Delves into VSTO data programming and server data scenarios
- Explores .NET code security and VSTO deployment
Advanced material covers working with XML in Word and Excel, developing COM add-ins for Word and Excel, and creating Outlook add-ins with VSTO.
About the author(s)
Eric Carter is a lead developer on the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) team at Microsoft. He helped invent, design, and implement many of the features that are in VSTO today. Previously at Microsoft he worked on Visual Studio for Applications, the Visual Studio Macros IDE, and Visual Basic for Applications for Office 2000 and Office 2003.
Eric Lippert's primary focus during his nine years at Microsoft has been on improving the lives of developers by designing and implementing useful programming languages and development tools. He has worked on the Windows Scripting family of technologies and, most recently, Visual Studio Tools for Office.
Table of Contents (abbreviated)
Foreword.
I. AN INTRODUCTION TO VSTO.
1. An Introduction to Office Programming.
2. Introduction to Office Solutions.
II. OFFICE PROGRAMMING IN .NET.
3. Programming Excel.
4. Working with Excel Events.
5. Working with Excel Objects.
6. Programming Word.
7. Working with Word Events.
8. Working with Word Objects.
9. Programming Outlook.
10. Working with Outlook Events.
11. Working with Outlook Objects.
12. Introduction to InfoPath.
III. OFFICE PROGRAMMING IN VSTO.
13. The VSTO Programming Model.
14. Using Windows Forms in VSTO.
15. Working with Actions Pane.
16. Working with Smart Tags in VSTO.
17. VSTO Data Programming.
18. Server Data Scenarios.
19. .NET Code Security.
20. Deployment.
IV. ADVANCED OFFICE PROGRAMMING.
21. Working with XML in Excel.
22. Working with XML in Word.
23. Developing COM Add-Ins for Word and Excel.
24. Creating Outlook Add-Ins with VSTO.
Index.
