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Learn real-world strategies and coding techniques for creating Microsoft Office–based applications that work seamlessly in the Microsoft .NET environment. This must-have reference delivers unique, essential insights for Office and .NET developers alike. Covering Microsoft Office System 2003 editions and Microsoft Office XP, the author provides practical guidance on which techniques are viable within various technical scenarios, and which techniques make the most sense for a given business requirement. Packed with information that Microsoft’s own Product Support Services team has relied on—and featuring detailed, step-by-step tutorials and full sample code—it’s the vital reference that no Office or .NET developer should be without.

Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint, and Office 2007 takes a practical problem/solution approach to common business challenges. Youll not only encounter interesting code samples, but also see how to combine these examples with the Microsoft collaboration platforms services. The books solutions focus on using Visual Studio Tools for Office to build the user interface layer. And solutions can interact with SharePoint as a service provider, taking advantage of SharePoints many collaboration features like document repositories, collaboration sites, and search functions.

This book is unique because it starts with challenges that end users deal with every day when using the Microsoft collaboration platform to support business processes. The solutions are presented as the hypothetical business challenges of a fictional company. By presenting the examples in this context, authors Ed Hild and Susie Adams make it easier to relate to the challenges and solution value. And the goal of these examples is to build applications that apply the benefits of the Office desktop interface with the richness of SharePoints collaboration features.

Finally, a book comes a long that is the definitive reference on the Microsoft Office Web Components. Learn how to build windows forms and web based applications containing interactive Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, customized pivot tables and dynamic 2D/3D charts and graphs. Inside, you will find hundreds of code snippets in C#, VB.NET, Javascript, and VBscript, complete walkthrus, sample implementations and advanced coding strategies and techniques for building commercial-grade software that will integrate seamlessly with core Microsoft Office products. With nearly 570 pages, this book offers something for every level of developer. Thanks to all of you who contributed to hundreds of copies of this book being sold and 6 months in the top 100 sales rank, enjoy this new price.

With Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can master all aspects of using Share Point Designer in an Enterprise environment to enhance Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Review key integration points, how to use CSS editing tools to create and modify SharePoint themes, how to supplement SharePoint Designer functionality by using Microsoft Visual Studio, and how to create a rich interactive experience. If you need to connect SharePoint with other enterprise resources or create components to integrate into the SharePoint framework, this book will show you how to accomplish these tasks.

Access power users and programmers at all levels, from the relatively inexperienced to the most sophisticated, will rely on the Access Cookbook, Second Edition for quick solutions to gnarly problems. Each of the book's "recipes" examine a particular problem--problems that commonly occur when you push the upper limits of Access, or those that are likely to trip up a developer attempting to design a more elegant Access application --even some things you never knew Access could do. Fully updated for Access 2003, it's also one of the first books to thoroughly explore new support for .NET managed code and XML. All of the practical, real-world examples have been tested for compatibility with Access 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. This updated new edition also covers Access and SharePoint, Access and SmartTags, Access and .NET; and Access and XML.

What is this book about?

Crystal Reports is one of the world's leading software packages for creating feature-rich reports and is now fully integrated with Visual Studio .NET. With this book, you will learn how to use the software to produce elegant and effective reports for Windows and the Web. It provides a detailed guide to the functionality provided with Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET, and shows how to integrate reports into .NET applications.

What does this book cover?

Professional Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.NET 2003 has been expanded to include functionality of the latest offering from Microsoft’s .NET platform and also the latest release of Crystal Reports. With the release of Visual Studio.NET 2003 the version of Crystal Reports included with the product has been updated and expanded. This title covers all of the fundamentals of working with Crystal Reports including:

• Creating and integrating reports into Windows and web-based applications
• Creating XML Report Web Services
• Working with ADO.NET
• Using formulas and logic in reports
• Developing distributed reporting applications
• Deploying reporting applications

The book also explores topics covering the new features and functionality. 

In this new edition, you'll also find a number of enhancements, including the following:           

• An entire chapter focused on Report Design
• More in-depth code samples to build complex applications with an emphasis on commonly used features.
• Examples that demonstrate integration with other databases and platforms (i.e. Oracle, etc.) as opposed to just samples for Access, SQL Server, etc.
• Expanded coverage on using parameters with Crystal Reports and customizing the report content at run-time.

In May 2001, Microsoft announced the Office XP suite and introduced the concept of Smart Tags. This technology provides the dynamic recognition of text or data within a document and allows the association of various actions with the text. In this article, Darshan Singh looks at how we can build a smart tag handler DLL in Visual Basic 6.0 that uses the .NET web service to get the data. The smart tag handler discussed here allows travel agents to get their corporate clients' travel details as soon as the clients' identification numbers are entered in Excel 2002. The smart tag handler recognizes the corporate client ID, sends a request to .NET web service that returns the travel details in XML format, and the smart tag handler processes the returned XML using Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 4.0 and fills the information into an Excel sheet.

Novell NetWare 6.5 Virtual Office Quick Start Card - Six, tri-folded pages of illustrated Novell NetWare 6.5 Virtual Office instructions. Novell NetWare 6.5 Virtual Office is an all-in-one application that includes links to several collaboration programs. It also includes tools to set up virtual teams, share files and find people in your organization. Because this all-in-one program is important to learn to be able to collaborate in a virtual office environment, BrainStorm has developed the Novell NetWare 6.5 Virtual Office Quick Start Card. The card covers the following topics, plus many more: Personalizing Your Virtual Team Web Page, iPrint, eGuide, iFolder Web Access, iFolder Desktop Client Setup & More. BrainStorm's Novell-branded durable laminated tri-fold card is perfect to hang in a cubicle for all-day reference or to travel with in a laptop bag. The full-color step-by-step illustrated instructions on each of the 6 full pages of content can also reduce the stress new users feel when they must learn how to use Virtual Office.