VSTO For Dummies

by Sempf, Bill; Jausovec, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780470046470
• ISBN10: 0470046473
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-19
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

The book will serve as a reference for getting up and running with the new Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (VSTO) release for 2005. VSTO is a set of tools for the development of applications with Visual Basic 2005 that use Office as their interface, such as Excel spreadsheets and Word Documents. This will be the preeminent guide for the real-world programmer. The book will include coverage of using VSTO to create applications in Word, Outlook and Excel primarily with some Infopath coverage. The book will also feature important coverage on integrating your VSTO Office applications with Microsoft Server products including Sharepoint. All code will be presented in VB 2005 to attract VB and VBA programmers. Book Contents in Brief: Part 1: Using VSTO to build Office applications Part 2: Building User Interface features Part 3: Programming for the Server Side Part 4: Making your office applications play well with others Part 5: The Part of Tens

Author Biography

Bill Sempf is a solutions architect specializing in Internet technologies. He is an established writer and speaker on a range of technology topics.

Peter Jausovec is a software development engineer who works on VSTO and SharePoint testing at Microsoft.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Part I: Introducing VSTO.

Chapter 1: Getting Started with VSTO.

Chapter 2: Building an Add-in.

Chapter 3: Making Your Documents Smart.

Chapter 4: Designing for VSTO.

Part II: VSTO Construction.

Chapter 5: Building Word Add-Ins.

Chapter 6: Customizing Word Documents.

Chapter 7: Building an Excel Add-In.

Chapter 8: Putting Customers into Excel.

Chapter 9: Presenting PowerPoint.

Chapter 10: Building an Outlook Job Jar Add-in.

Chapter 11: Creating a Project Project.

Chapter 12: Developing for Visio.

Part III: Developing for SharePoint.

Chapter 13: Working with SharePoint.

Chapter 14: Building SharePoint Workflows.

Chapter 15: Building SharePoint Lists and Libraries.

Part IV: Finishing Up.

Chapter 16: Security.

Chapter 17: Deploying VSTO Solutions.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 18: Ten Reasons to Ditch Web Programming.

Chapter 19: Ten Cool Ideas and Resources for Your Next VSTO Project.

Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Integrate SharePoint.

Index.