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A step-by-step guide for brand-new Office developers who want to explore programming with VSTO. This book contains complete step-by-step instructions and simple explanations about VSTO programming of entire Office applications. It covers the concepts of VSTO, VSTO architecture, its features, and versions using practical examples, to help beginners and intermediate developers develop real-world Office applications. Separate chapters cover programming InfoPath, Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. This book is aimed at .NET developers, familiar with C#, who want to get to grips with programming Office 2007. The book will also be useful for those of you who already have experience with VBA and programming Office, but are ready to take the next step into the more powerful world of Office programming with VSTO.

Now you can do the things you do every day with Office—create reports, manage finances, send e-mail, and make a presentation—but do them faster, smarter, and better. Dive in! This friendly, focused guide shows the best ways to use the core features in your Office programs, so you spend more time doing and less time learning. Use the quick lists, numbered steps, and helpful examples to accelerate your productivity—and do the cool things you want to do!

Discover how to:

• Get your e-mail, calendar, and work day under control
• Create professional-looking documents—from memos and invoices to complex reports
• Use spreadsheets and charts to analyze data and support decision making
• Produce and deliver a compelling presentation with great visuals and special effects
• Communicate and work together more effectively using enhanced collaboration features
• Quickly build a dynamic Web site with data-driven features
• Use XML to make your data go farther
• Share and reuse information among programs to simplify work and get better resultsLearn about Office the Faster Smarter way!
• 10-Second Summary—see what each chapter covers at a glance
• Fast Wrap-Up—review key points and takeaways from every chapter
• Real-World Examples—apply what you learn to real work, right now
• Aha! Tips—get insider tips and insights to fuel your productivity
• Top 10 Troubleshooting Solutions—find fast answers, right inside the cover!

Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to use Microsoft Office Access, Excel, FrontPage, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need, or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

• Create and publish professional-quality documents, brochures, and Web pages
• Develop powerful but easy-to-use spreadsheets and databases
• Manage your e-mail communications and workday
• Produce and deliver compelling slide presentations
• Get your Web site up and running quickly
• Learn how to take notes electronically
• Easily capture and reuse information with InfoPath forms
• Work better together using the collaboration features across the Microsoft Office System

Practice your skills using the files on CD!

Your Microsoft Office System Reference Pack on CD includes:

• Twenty-five templates straight from the Microsoft Office team
• Microsoft Office System Quick Reference eBook
• Insider’s Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 eBook—describes new notetaking features in Office
• Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition, eBook—10,000+ entries!
• Introducing the Tablet PC eBook
• Complete STEP BY STEP eBook
• Skill-building practice files

A Note Regarding the CD or DVD

The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in VB 2005 is the third edition of Scot Hillier's market-leading SharePoint book. The new version includes extensive updates from the previous editions, with a complete focus on SharePoint 2007 and its integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office System. This edition also features new approaches for using SharePoint to improve business efficiency, plus new workflow solutions for SharePoint and BizTalk, as well as a brand new chapter on building a SharePoint solution from start to finish.

With this book, you'll gain intermediate-level guidance to design and deploy business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 technologies. And Hillier carefully defines the business cases and scenarios for these new technologies. He reviews the installation, configuration, and administration of business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint technologies, and provides programming instruction, guidance, and examples for custom web parts and solutions.

Professional Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office satisfies the need to write enterprise software based on Office by delivering practical solutions for those seeking to port existing functionality to VSTO. The book focuses on code and implementation, not theory, with code examples presented in both VB and C#.

The book is especially written for enterprise developers - VBA or COM Interop savvy - who need to leverage the power and productivity of VSTO today. .NET developers seeking to explore VSTO as a potential solution will also find ample material that suits their needs.

This book covers VSTO 2005 in detail. The approach focuses on the major components that form the suite with the exception that InfoPath is not covered. All other components benefit from an exploration of the key objects that are most likely to be used in common programming scenarios. This book is organized into chapters that present the building blocks of VSTO first. Microsoft Excel and its Range objects form the cornerstone of range manipulation across the VSTO suite. For that reason, the first few chapters explain these basic concepts. Subsequent chapters use these building blocks as a starting point so it is important to be familiar with these concepts before skipping to the back of the book.

Once you gain a complete understanding of the Excel Range object in Chapters 2 and 3, you can apply that knowledge to the remaining chapters. In fact, Microsoft Word, Charts and Pivot Table manipulation are all based on the Excel Range object. (VSTO contains a potent charting engine second to none. And this book explores every facet of charting.) The obvious benefit of this clever architecture is that it significantly reduces the learning curve for those who wish to adopt this relatively new technology. And this book is designed to show you how to exploit this architecture.

• Covers the new features, tools, and technologies in Office 2003 and demonstrates how developers can extend, enhance, and customize the suite using VisualBasic for Applications (VBA)
• More than 800 pages of clear and friendly For Dummies advice and instructions help developers get up to speed fast, improve workflow, and get the job done
• Packed with helpful real-world examples, including creating an Office document collaboration manager, automating e-mail routing, administering the Task Pane from within an application, and building a distributed business system using Web services
• The eight minibooks cover Office 2003 essentials; understanding Office programming; maximizing Word; making the most of Excel; advanced Access; exploiting Outlook; InterOffice; working as a team; and power techniques such as advanced Office automation, VBA, and .NET

VSTO is the only way to properly unlock the potential of Microsoft Office 2007 in the enterprise. Written specifically for professional Microsoft Office developers, Pro Office 2007 Development with VSTO covers the full range of what’s possible with the toolset, taking the reader to expert status by the end of the text. Readers become fully grounded in the language, in the key features VSTO offers, and are introduced to practices that will help ensure their success as professionals.

Essential Visual Studio 2010 Skills--Made Easy!

Endorsed by Microsoft and written by a Microsoft MVP and Visual Studio expert, this hands-on guide teaches programmers and developers new to Visual Studio 2010 how to maximize the latest release of Microsoft's flagship development environment. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to build applications from the ground up. You'll also learn how to customize the integrated development environment (IDE) itself, adding your own tools that integrate with Visual Studio 2010.

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Title: EXACT LEVERAGES MICROSOFT .NET TECHNOLOGY.
Publication: Manufacturing Automation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2004
Publisher: Vital Information Publications
Volume: 13 Issue: 7
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