Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook

Description

Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook is the definitive book on VSTO 2008 programming, written by the inventors of the technology. VSTO is a set of tools that allows professional developers to use the full power of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework to program against Microsoft Office 2007.

This book delivers in one place all the information you need to succeed using VSTO to program against Word 2007, Excel 2007, and Outlook 2007, and provides the necessary background to customize Visio 2007, Publisher 2007, and PowerPoint 2007. It introduces the Office 2007 object models, covers the most commonly used objects in those object models, and will help you avoid the pitfalls caused by the COM origins of the Office object models. Developers who wish to program against Office 2003 should consult Carter and Lippert's previous book, Visual Studio Tools for Office.

In VSTO 2008, you can build add-ins for all the major Office 2007 applications, build application-level custom task panes, customize the new Office Ribbon, modify Outlook's user interface using Form Regions, and easily deploy everything you build using ClickOnce.

Carter and Lippert cover their subject matter with deft insight into the needs of .NET developers learning VSTO, based on the deep knowledge that comes from the authors' unique perspective of living and breathing VSTO for the past six years. This book

* Explains the architecture of Microsoft Office programming and introduces the object models
* Covers the main ways Office applications are customized and extended
* Explores the ways of customizing Excel, Word, and Outlook, and plumbs the depths of programming with their events and
object models
* Introduces the VSTO programming model
* Teaches how to use Windows Forms and WPF in VSTO and how to work with the Document Actions Pane and application-level task panes
* Delves into VSTO data programming and server data scenarios
* Teaches ClickOnce VSTO deployment

This is the one book you need to succeed in programming against Office 2007.

C# and Visual Basic .NET Code samples for download can be found here: http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321533216

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Office Programming 3

Chapter 2: Introduction to Office Solutions 51

Part II: Office Programming in .NET 87

Chapter 3: Programming Excel 89

Chapter 4: Working with Excel Events 115

Chapter 5: Working with Excel Objects 163

Chapter 6: Programming Word 243

Chapter 7: Working with Word Events 267

Chapter 8: Working with Word Objects 311

Ways to Customize Outlook 405

Chapter 10: Working with Outlook Events 425

Chapter 11: Working with Outlook Objects 475

Part III: Office Programming in VSTO 571

Chapter 12: The VSTO Programming Model 573

Chapter 13: Using Windows Forms and WPF in VSTO 627

Chapter 14: Working with Document-Level Actions Panes 673

Chapter 15: Working with Application-Level Custom Task Panes 701

Chapter 16: Working with Outlook Form Regions 723

Chapter 17: Working with the Ribbon in VSTO 777

Chapter 18: Working with Smart Tags in VSTO 851

Chapter 19: VSTO Data Programming 881

Chapter 20: Server Data Scenarios 929

Chapter 21: ClickOnce Deployment 955