Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using Visual Basic 2005 with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath - , Eric Lippert

Visual Studio Tools for Office is the essential resource for VSTO 2005 programming, authored by the technology's creators. VSTO empowers professional developers to leverage the complete capabilities of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework to add functionality to Excel 2003, Word 2003, Outlook 2003, and InfoPath 2003.

VSTO introduces unprecedented features for Office developers, including data binding, data/view separation, design-time views of Excel and Word documents within Visual Studio, robust support for Windows Forms controls in a document, custom Office task pane creation, server-side programming support against Office, and more.

Carter and Lippert provide comprehensive insights tailored to .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 customization of Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath, including in-depth programming with their events and object models
• Introduces the VSTO programming model
• Teaches how to use Windows Forms in VSTO and work with the Actions Pane
• Delves into VSTO data programming and server data scenarios
• Explores .NET code security and VSTO deployment

Author: Carter, Eric

Author: Lippert, Eric

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Illustration: n

Language: ENG

Title: Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using Visual Basic 2005 with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath

Pages: 01056 (Encrypted ) / 00000 (Encrypted )

On Sale: 2006-04-26

SKU-13/ISBN: 9780321411754

Category: Computers : Software Development & Engineering - General