Professional VSTO 2005 : Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (Programmer to Programmer)

Professional VSTO 2005 : Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (Programmer to Programmer), 9780471788133 (0471788139), Wrox Press, 2006

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (VSTO) supports Word, Excel®, and Outlook® and allows developers to build robust Office applications in both the C# and VB languages. This practical guide shows you how to leverage the power of VSTO to write enterprise software targeting Office 2003. Even if you're not entirely familiar with VSTO, you'll find this book to be an indispensable resource to building your knowledge of this new technology.

Beginning chapters review basic concepts and serve as building blocks upon which the remaining chapters are built. Working examples provide solutions to common programming requirement issues so that even if you are a seasoned developer, you'll still find many useful techniques and strategies to solving enterprise-level software problems from an Office perspective using VSTO.

What you will learn from this book

Maximizing Office 2003's power and flexibility in enterprise software
Automating Office objects from Visual Studio and Windows Console applications
Extracting functionality and performance from Word and Excel
Creating exciting Excel charts and powerful PivotTable® reports
Avoiding common pitfalls while porting VBA code to VSTO as well as work-arounds to technical limitations in the Office API

Who this book is for

This book is for developers who are planning to adopt VSTO as an enterprise solution. A familiarity with Object Oriented concepts is required. An understanding of Visual Studio .NET is recommended, but not required. Recent .NET adopters with a VBA background will find this book especially useful.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

About the Author
Alvin Bruney is a senior software engineer for Indigo Books and Music. His previous development jobs included spearheading the .NET architecture for NetworkIP, a telecommunications provider, and as a programmer with Intuit. He self-published a book on Office Web Components, and frequently writes articles for ASP.NET Professional magazine, MSDN, and other online venues. He is also a Microsoft .NET MVP and is well known in the 10 newsgroups he monitors.

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