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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.
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The ability to customize and extend individual Office applications should convince developers to at least check out the new Office XP Developer Edition. All the main applications in the Office suite, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, support VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), a full-featured programming language. The key to programming Office is in the object model presented by each application. Using this language, you can open, edit, and close documents in Word, or read and write data from Excel spreadsheets under program control.
Much of this comes standard with Office XP, but the Developer Edition supplies a full version of Office XP Professional, along with extra tools and documentation for developers. Its best value feature is the Access runtime, which lets you distribute Access database applications royalty-free. You also get developer versions of SQL Server 2000, Exchange 2000 Server, and Visual SourceSafe 6.0 for managing source code. Another tool is the Microsoft Development Environment, which lets you create workflow solutions based on either SQL Server or Exchange. The same tool is used for Digital Dashboard projects, which allow you to build custom Web sites or portals using either Exchange or SharePoint Portal Server as the back-end platform.
Along with mountains of online documentation, Office XP Developer provides an excellent 700-page book that explains how to develop Office applications. Another handy feature is the Code Librarian, which has thousands of code snippets ready for pasting or adapting in your own applications. There is also the Smart Tag SDK, for developing add-ins that recognize words as they are typed, and the Packaging Wizard, for easy deployment of an Office application or add-in. Overall, this product is a must-have if you want to distribute Access applications or create workflow solutions, and useful for anyone working on integrated Office XP solutions. --Tim Anderson
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24 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
WARNING: Obnoxious "activation" required,
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This review is from: Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition Upgrade [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
In keeping with Microsoft's total lack of concern for consumers, they have fixed this version so the purchaser must do a minimal registration via the web or phone in order to use the product. This means it is locked to your computer. This is an effort to prevent piracy. Preventing piracy is an honorable and important goal. However, there's more to it. If you upgrade or replace your computer, you'll have to call them on the phone and explain your story and if they think you're telling the truth, then maybe you can install the program you bought on your new computer. This also means that if you have two computers on your desk, you have to buy two copies, one for each computer. Also, this is Microsoft's first step toward forcing consumers to lease software instead of buying it. This move would likely force consumers to upgrade to the latest bloated version, even if they are happy with the old one.Office XP is a decent set of applications, but there are at least two good alternatives that don't come with the obnoxious features. Check out either StarOffice or WordPerfect Office 2002. Both are excellent office suites and both are available on Amazon. Both are totally compatible with Microsoft Office file formats. So, before dropping a ton of money on another Microsoft marketing scheme, consider the alternatives.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
what it is,
By Robert Callahan (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition Upgrade [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
Office XP itself was a fine upgrade - endlessly configurable (you don't like the clip? Kill the clip! Hate spell-on-the-fly? Turn it off), well-suited to file- and data-sharing, more stable, quicker internet data connections, still more refinements and improvements (like programmable smart tags) to Excel and Word, a much-improved set of add-ons in Project, Publisher, and Visio. And the upgrade process was easy. If you had trouble you either had some horribly complex project to switch or you waded in without paying attention to instructions. It was a very smooth transition.The Developer version added (still adds, since you can buy it now) added developer editions of SQL Server and Exchange, plus Source Safe, Code Librarian, and various other useful and sometimes well-buried stuff. I'm not sure why Office Developer isn't just folded into a slightly downpriced MSDN Professional, but then Microsoft still hasn't matured on the level of licensing and packaging. The Office suite is, however, a mature product that has been improving enormously since the 2000 release. If only Redmond would lose their fascination with Byzantine licensing and Rubik's Cube bundling (cool! We can sell it this way, and THIS way, and THAT way, and for these people we can probably get them to pay for THIS THAT way ...), people might stop complaining and realize the products are much-improved. 2003 continues the march onward in quality. If you're considering XP Developer, you're likely better off looking at an MSDN package to get the same tools.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A nice improvement,
By Anthony DuBose (El Paso, Tx USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition Upgrade [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
Very nice improvement. The addition of XML campatability and SQLServer 2000 really helps those who need the power. A lot of bells and whistels but may be too much for those who only want a word processor.
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