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VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming

By : Vivek Thangaswamy
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VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming

By: Vivek Thangaswamy

Overview of this book

With the arrival of Visual Studio Tools for Office 3.0 (VSTO), developers can now program Microsoft Office from the .NET framework. There are huge books in the market that give loads of unnecessary information but are of no real help to brand-new Office developers. Wouldn't it be great to have a precise book that simply covers the basics and introduces programming Office 2007 with VSTO using the latest version of Visual Studio? This is that book. VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming shows you how to write Office 2007 applications with Visual Studio Tools for Office 3.0. Learn how to automate tasks in InfoPath, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project 2007 with greater programming power and flexibility than was available from the VBA language. With this book and the mastery of VSTO you will learn, Office will no longer be an application to you; it will be a platform for developing custom applications.VSTO 3 is the most recent version of VSTO, making use of Visual Studio 2008, and working with Office 2007. This book shows how VSTO puts Office automation into the hands of developers, allowing them to use the power of the .NET framework to automate Office applications thus increasing the speed of the applications, their security, and the opportunity to use other parts of the .NET Framework such as its data handling capabilities. This book builds a solid programming foundation in VSTO for brand-new Office developers. You will leave behind the world of VBA programming and take your first steps into the powerful and exciting world of using C# to create Office 2007 applications. Packed with examples and covering all the main Office applications, this book will have you creating fully featured Office extensions before you know it.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 2. Microsoft Office InfoPath Programming

Microsoft Office InfoPath, as the name suggests, is a part of the Microsoft Office Tool suite. InfoPath aids programmers, as well as Microsoft Office users. Programmers can use InfoPath to design XML-based forms, and users of Office applications can open these forms and easily enter data into them. Microsoft Office InfoPath was first released as a part of Microsoft Office 2003, but has been considerably enhanced since then.

In this chapter, we'll discuss the following:

  • InfoPath 2007 in Visual Studio (UI and installation), including how to start an InfoPath solution in Visual Studio 2008

  • Creating an InfoPath solution—object model, and object model functional area

  • Events in InfoPath—form-level events, XML events, and control events

  • Custom programming—data validation, custom actions on save, and switching views

  • Manipulating the Data Source—making InfoPath work with Microsoft SQL Server

  • Creating a custom Task Pane for InfoPath 2007

  • Writing InfoPath Add...