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Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using Visual Basic 2005 with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath By Eric Carter & Eric Lippert
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DESCRIPTION:
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.
Eric Carter and Eric 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.
A companion CD includes all of the complete Visual Basic 2005 code samples.
About the Authors:
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.