Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

By Eric Lippert and Eric Carter

Book Overview

Direct from two of the lead developers of the product comes the definitive guide to using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2005. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321334884
• ISBN13: 9780321334886
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 978 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Much value to be found here...

Part of my 2006 professional goals involve learning more about Microsoft's collaboration software. To that end, I got a review copy of Eric Carter and Eric Lippert's book Visual Studio Tools for Office - Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath. Good stuff here... Contents: Part 1 - An Introduction to VSTO: An Introduction to Office Programming; Introduction to Office Solutions Part 2 - Office Programming in .NET:...

a tying together of C#/.NET with Microsoft Office

This book ties together two longstanding traits of Microsoft, that long predate C# or .NET. The first is its Office suite, which is one of its main moneyspinners. The second is its tradition, going back to the early 80s, if not earlier, for writing nice development tools for programmers. Undoubtedly, when Microsoft devised C#/.NET a few years ago, the abilities given in this book would have been a major goal. The book promises...

Nice walkthrough of programming and embedding in Office

This is a solid walkthrough of building C# automation code for Office, and for writing code that integrates into Office. Excel is covered in depth. As are Word, Outlook and the fascinating new Infopath product that is an XML technologies client. The writing is good. I could have used a few more non-screenshot graphics to illustrate the control flow between applications. But these are nit-picks. This is a solid book on automating...

The Bible of VSTO

When you see volume that huge (952 pages less the index), you are led into thinking that this is another documentation rehash. Well, this is not the case here. The book's size is well justified by the fact that they present the material with the least rehash possible and give realistic examples that are mostly usable without any modification or customization at all. Quite impressive, IMHO, is the fact that they take it really...