Pro Office 2007 Development with VSTO

Experienced author Ty Anderson cuts to the chase in explaining how professional Microsoft Office 2007 solution developers get the job done. Ty is a professional Microsoft application developer working each and every day with the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)technology, and his real–world experience will teach you exactly what you need to know to excel in your professional development career.

Pro Office 2007 Development with VSTO takes you far beyond traditional Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)programming, showing you how to transform Microsoft Office 2007 into a complete enterprise application development platform. By the end of the book, you will be creating your own powerful, customized Office business applications (OBAs), using the techniques Ty has taught you throughout. The author demonstrates how to leverage all aspects of the Microsoft Office application platform (covering Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and InfoPath) so you can create OBAs that increase information worker productivity, unlock business data stored in documents, reduce end–user training costs, increase developer productivity, and reduce IT operations costs.

This book takes you beyond the basics of VSTO with expert topics such as automation with the Office application object models and includes detailed examples throughout.

What you’ll learn

• Understand and leverage Microsoft Office application object models.
• Build Microsoft Office application–level add–ins.
• Create and publish document–level add–ins.
• Integrate external data into Office applications and documents.
• Integrate SharePoint data with Office.
• Build workflows.
• Perform deployments of your solutions and manage delivery of updates.

This book is for professional Microsoft Office application developers (and those aspiring to be so) who are interested in creating enterprise applications on the solid base of Microsoft Office 2007. The complexity of the examples assumes an intermediate–to–advanced level of experience with Microsoft .NET. Proficient VBA developers wishing to take their skills to the next level will also benefit by this book.

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.

Ty Anderson runs a consultancy in Dallas and specializes in professional, actually used and working information management applications. Starting out as an accountant with Pricewaterhouse, Anderson eventually fell into development and systems development in the finance industry. He now designs, executes, and offers training on his own Office-centric applications delivered to small to medium-large firms. Anderson is a regular contributor to MSDN Office Library.