Programming Microsoft Office 2000 Web Components (Microsoft Professional Series) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

~ (Author) "Microsoft Office 2000 includes a new set of controls called the Office Web Components (OWC)..." (more)
Key Phrases: stock ticker control, spreadsheet control, custom function library, Internet Explorer, Office Web Components, Visual Basic (more...)

Product Details

• Paperback: 369 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 073560794X
• ISBN-13: 978-0735607941
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #245,491 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remember that this book is not a programmer's reference, March 4, 2001

By	David Stearns "dave31569" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

I am the author of this book, and after talking with some of the negative reviewers have determined that they disliked the book because they thought it would be a programmer's reference to the controls. That is not what this book is.

The book is segmented into two parts: Part I explains the capabilities and design of each control, along with code examples showing how to accomplish the most basic taks with the control (e.g. putting data into them, simple formatting, etc.); Part II covers a number of solutions written with the controls, showing the reader how to program the controls in a specific context to accomplish specific tasks. The solutions presented in this section were the same scenarios we used to inform the design of the controls.

So while this book does contain information on writing script code against the controls, it is organized *topically*, and does not provide a general reference to the entire programming model. It is intended for readers who are not familiar with the components, and need a roadmap into their rather large and daunting programming model. This book is also for people who have some understanding of the controls, but then need help in understanding how to accomplish a common task (e.g. producing a chart GIF on the server, feeding real-time data to the chart, or posting the contents of the Spreadsheet to a server page). So if you are asking the questions, "what are these controls and what can they do?", or "how do I use them to make some particular solution?" then this book is for you. If you are asking "what are all the valid values for a given parameter in some particular method call?" then this book is not for you.

I hope that these comments will make the nature of this book more apparent so you may decide if this book will help you or not.

-dave stearns

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fair to Partially Cloudy, July 5, 2000

By	chittydog (Bedford, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This is definitly the most complete book about the O2K Web Components, but all that shows is how little information is available. There was very little explanation of how to do things. The book was mostly focused on telling you what the components can do and a few examples rather than how to do it. Most of the functionality in which I was really interested was quickly breezed over because there was "much more functionality than this chapter can cover". At less than 400 pages, I think they could've made the chapters large enough to cover a little more of the functionality. After going through the book, I have a better understanding of what the Office 2000 Web Components do, but I've still had to figure out mostly on my own how to do it all. In the end, I feel like I paid for a press release or spec sheet rather than an instruction manual.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on the market on the Office web components, September 16, 1999

By A Customer

I found the book to be very usefull in getting beyond the basics when programming the web components in Office 2000. The deployment section saved me a lot of time rolling the components out within my org.