VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming

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.

What you will learn from this book?

• Enhance Office applications with the features of VSTO

• Learn Microsoft Office InfoPath programming in Visual Studio and discover its role in SharePoint Workflow

• Get confident with Microsoft Word Programming in Visual Studio 2008, working with task panes, menus, toolbars, and ribbons

• Build a Microsoft Excel solution in Visual Studio, process data with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and work with host items in Excel and charts

• Customize Microsoft Outlook using VSTO, work with Ribbons for Outlook 2007, and understand SQL server database interaction

• Explore Programming in PowerPoint using VSTO 3.0 including creating presentations, adding slides, ribbons, and using Visual designer for ribbons

• Learn Programming in Visio and Project 2007 using VSTO 3.0