Microsoft® .NET Development for Microsoft Office (Office/Progmng/NET) - Softcover

Whitechapel, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735621322 ISBN 13: 9780735621329

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 2004

Synopsis

Create Microsoft Office-based applications that work seamlessly in the Microsoft .NET environment—with this essential reference from Microsoft developer Andrew Whitechapel. The author provides expert advice on the various approaches you can use to build managed solutions with Office, and gives practical guidance on the most viable techniques for technical and business scenarios. You’ll begin building custom .NET-based applications with detailed, practical exercises that take you through solutions from beginning to end. Andrew shares tactics, strategies, and best practices—plus full sample code—to help you maximize your development efforts. Packed with the same information used by Microsoft’s Product Support Services team, this book is the one reference that every Office and .NET developer should have.

Discover how to:

• Develop powerful .NET solutions for Office with managed interop assemblies
• Integrate managed code with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
• Create custom commands and functionality with managed COM and Automation add-ins
• Build custom Office features with external data using Web services, .NET remoting, and research services
• Use Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office to create document-centric solutions for Microsoft Excel and Word
• Use digital signatures, strong-naming and .NET Code Access Security
• Control Office applications using Platform Invoke, Reflection, drag-and-drop, and the IAccessible interface
• Develop managed Smart Tags and managed Smart Document solutions

Covers Microsoft Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP, and Microsoft Office System 2003 Editions

About this title

About the Authors

Andrew Whitechapel is a senior program manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform team, performing scoping and design for the application platform (both native and managed), including v7.5 (Mango) and future releases. He is responsible for core parts of the platform, including the application packaging/install database and services, the application execution manager, and the resource manager (memory, CPU, thread pool, etc). He has written several books, including the Microsoft Press books Microsoft .NET Development with Microsoft Office and Inside C# (for which he was a co-author), as well as numerous articles for MSDN Magazine and other publications.

Andrew Whitechapel is a senior program manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform team, performing scoping and design for the application platform (both native and managed), including v7.5 (Mango) and future releases. He is responsible for core parts of the platform, including the application packaging/install database and services, the application execution manager, and the resource manager (memory, CPU, thread pool, etc). He has written several books, including the Microsoft Press books Microsoft .NET Development with Microsoft Office and Inside C# (for which he was a co-author), as well as numerous articles for MSDN Magazine and other publications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735621322
• ISBN 13: 9780735621329
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528