Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition [Old Version]

by Microsoft

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005BL28
• Item model number: 549-00656
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 5, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,963 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Office XP Developer provides the tools and features to enable developers to make use of the new functionality in Office XP, as well as enhancements that ensure developer productivity. This release offers improved Component Object Model (COM) and integration with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) throughout Office. You can quickly develop solutions using common programming techniques that are familiar to your corporate developers. Microsoft Office XP Developer includes enhanced development tools and documentation for developers building Microsoft Office XP solutions.

You can quickly build business solutions leveraging pre-built components. Microsoft Office XP Developer delivers tools and components that enable the development of Web-based collaboration, workflow, and data-driven solutions. Quickly deploy applications into an environment that is familiar to end users, reducing training time and support costs. Microsoft Office XP Developer provides all of the necessary tools for easily deploying and managing Office XP solutions.

Product Description

Microsoft Office XP Developer provides everything for developers building solutions with Office XP. It includes professional productivity tools, documentation, and sample code for quickly building, managing, and deploying solutions with Office and Office components. Package includes Microsoft Office XP Professional, Microsoft FrontPage, Workflow Designer for SQL Server, Workflow Designer for Exchange 2000 Server, Code Librarian, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, and Discovering Microsoft Office XP Developer's Guide. Part Number 549-00656

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Customer Reviews

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22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buy Professional Edition, May 20, 2002

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"ets352" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Inspite of having XP in its name, Office Developer XP does not completely load on Windows XP. There are problems will Exchange and SQL servers workflows. This product was touted by Microsoft has having a developmental envirnoment, but does so only on a server (which already has the services for this product). Also, Microsoft omitted a web server to be use for development. A few years ago they provided the personal web servicer as a free download, which could use for developing web sites having ASP and Front Page extensions, but the PWS is only for Windows 95/98. Now the independent developer at a minimum has to lease space on a provider's web server.

Furthermore, the product interfers with Visual Basic 6. Office somehow tries to re-install itself when Visual Basic is ran. It prevents Visual Basic from opening existing projects.

Save yourself the money, if you need to get Office XP buy the standard or professional. You'll will probably need the cash to upgrade Visual Basic and/or rent server space.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For professional Access and Office developers, May 31, 2001

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Rick Dobson "Rick Dobson" (Louisville, KY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

MOD XP is a great edition of Office XP for professional Access developers and those who want to grow into becoming professionals. Microsoft took all the features that made Access 2000 a landmark version and made them even better in Access 2002. For example, ADO offers improved data access for more data resources, data access pages make it easier to create web solutions, Office XP Web Components offer exciting new analysis and charting capabilities for distributed, decision-support applications. My personal favorite strength about Access 2002 is its improved interoperability with SQL Server 2000. This capability equips Access developers to create SQL Server solutions more easily and rapidly than ever before. In addition, SQL Server DBAs now have a RAD tool that lets them respond to more requests for creating reports, forms, and web pages with any version of SQL Server.

The resources that MOD XP delivers especially target professional developers. This edition of Office XP comes with developer versions of SQL Server 2000 and Exchange Server 2000. In addition, this version contains the Access run-time version and a license to redistribute Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE) that is SQL Server 2000 compatible. CDs that ship with MOD XP provide more valuable software and automatic updates to Windows as well.

Finally, MOD XP also includes the Microsoft Office XP Developer's Guide. This book drills down on the many innovations with the product since the Access 2000 release. For example, there is extensive coverage of how to build workflow solutions for SQL Server databases. The book also provides guidance on how to create digital dashboards. The book closes with a collection of charts for all the object models that ship with Office XP. Microsoft made this book's content more accessible than ever by giving it a Books Online style UI. Now, Office XP developers can readily search for topics by keywords as well as by an index and a table of contents. They can also save their favorite resource pages.

18 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This is SO much money! Try OpenOffice before buying, November 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

...If you're an intense Access or Excel macro user, you might want to go with this.

Anyone else can get go to openoffice.org and download that office suite instead. Or get StarOffice here. You can do so many of the same things. Open or create Word files, do all the stuff you can do in Word, save'em back as Word format or not. Make web pages. Do mail merges, hooked up to any database you want. Do presentations. Impress is the PowerPoint equivalent and reads those file formats. It's got good effects and animation. Do all the spreadsheets you want. The Excel equivalent handles Excel formats and lets you save back out in that format or not.

And the openoffice and staroffice file sizes are tiny. If you've ever been really annoyed by bloated MS Office file sizes, you are going to love openoffice or staroffice. Really small files.

Put the money in your 401k. Skip MS Office.