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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 4. Microsoft Office Excel Programming

Before we begin the chapter, let's see where you will stand once you complete reading this chapter on Microsoft Office Excel programming. Beginning with programming in Excel 2007 using VSTO 3.0 and proceeding with programming concepts, you will learn how to manipulate data inside Excel. Later, you will learn the concepts of workbook manipulation and worksheet manipulation, with code samples. When programming in the Excel 2007, the object model plays an important role. You will learn the most important and widely used objects, with the help of demonstrations.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • Excel 2007 in Visual Studio 2008, including how to start an Excel solution in Visual Studio 2008

  • Excel 2007 solution: the object model, and the object model functional area

  • Data and worksheet manipulation in Excel 2007

  • Data processing with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

  • Working with ranges, cell unions, named ranges, and so on

  • Working with host items in Excel, and charts...