Microsoft Office XP Developer's Guide

Exploit the powerful programmability in Microsoft® Office XP with authoritative information straight from the Office XP development team. This hard-core programming reference comes packed with practical resources to help you maximize your productivity with Microsoft Office Developer. You get both design and coding examples that take advantage of the COM interfaces exposed by Office XP. Use this incisive coverage to build on what you know and to accomplish everything from automating simple tasks to creating complex vertical-market applications. And the companion CD-ROM contains hundreds of procedures you can use right now—helping you to focus your creativity on designing solutions, rather than on building rudimentary code. It's everything you need to create better business solutions, faster! Find vital details about these topics:
• GETTING STARTED: Discover the Office XP Developer environment, including what's new in this edition—how to set up the Office Developer design environment and its server environment.
• DESIGNING APPLICATIONS: Learn about the applications design process and the technologies you should use, how to master interface design, and find out what you need to know about Office XP security, reusability, code testing, and deployment considerations.
• DEVELOPING WITH MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC® FOR APPLICATIONS: Understand the benefits of Office programmability, with its more than 600 programmable objects, and learn how to program with add-ins, templates, wizards, and libraries.
• CREATING WORKFLOW SOLUTIONS: Discover how to develop workflow solutions that use Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server™, including both design and coding examples.
• DEVELOPING A DIGITAL DASHBOARD: Find out how to use Web Parts to build a Digital Dashboard project.
• WORKING WITH XML: Learn about XML support in the Office XP applications—and how to take advantage of it in the Office Developer design environment.
• USING OTHER RESOURCES: In the appendixes, follow code walkthroughs for three applications and find object models for all Office XP applications, shared components, and Web components.
• CD INCLUDES: coding examples in Microsoft Visual Basic®

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Foreword

Part 1: Getting Started with Office XP Developer

Introduction

What's New in Office XP Developer

Setting up the Developer Design Environment

Setting up the Server Environment

Part 2: Developing Office Developer Applications

Chapter 1: Designing Applications

Chapter 2: Developing Office Applications Using VBA

Chapter 3: Developing Workflow Applications for Exchange Server

Chapter 4: Developing Workflow Applications for SQL Server

Chapter 5: Developing a Digital Dashboard Using Web Parts

Chapter 6: Debugging and Error Handling

Chapter 7: Localizing Your Application

Chapter 8: Deploying Your Application

Part 3: Programming Concepts

Chapter 9: Writing Solid Code

Chapter 10: Working with XML

Chapter 11: Custom Classes and Objects

Part 4: Using the Office Developer Productivity Tools

Chapter 12: Sharing Code with the Code Librarian

Chapter 13: Using Source Code Control

Chapter 14: Sharing and Reusing VBA Objects

Chapter 15: Rapid Application Development Tools

Appendix A: Microsoft Office Developer Walkthroughs

Walkthrough 1: Creating a COM Add-in with VBA

Walkthrough 2: Creating a Workflow Application Using Exchange Server

Walkthrough 3: Developing a Workflow Application Using Workflow Designer for SQL Server

Walkthrough 4: Creating a Digital Dashboard using Web Parts

Appendix B: Microsoft Office XP Developer Object Model Guide

Office XP Applications

Shared Components

Data Access

Web Technologies

Appendix C: Additional References