Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
34 used & new from $29.95
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
Tell the Publisher!
I’d like to read this book on Kindle

Don’t have a Kindle? Get yours here.
 
  

Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath (Microsoft .NET Development Series) (Paperback)

by Eric Carter (Author), Eric Lippert (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
List Price: $59.99
Price: $40.49 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Details
You Save: $19.50 (33%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Only 3 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).

Want it delivered Monday, July 20? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details
20 new from $34.82 14 used from $29.95

Frequently Bought Together

Customers buy this book with VSTO for Mere Mortals(TM): A VBA Developer's Guide to Microsoft Office Development Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office by Kathleen McGrath

Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath (Microsoft .NET Development Series) + VSTO for Mere Mortals(TM): A VBA Developer's Guide to Microsoft Office Development Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
Price For Both: $75.48

Show availability and shipping details

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Microsoft® .NET Development for Microsoft Office (Office/Progmng/Net)

Microsoft® .NET Development for Microsoft Office (Office/Progmng/Net)

by Andrew Whitechapel
3.3 out of 5 stars (6) 
Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

by Eric Carter
4.0 out of 5 stars (5)  $44.46
Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Windows.Net)

Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Windows.Net)

by Andrew Troelsen
4.4 out of 5 stars (56)  $37.79
Professional VSTO 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (Programmer to Programmer)

Professional VSTO 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (Programmer to Programmer)

by Alvin Bruney
2.2 out of 5 stars (4)  $26.39
Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel, VBA, and .NET (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)

Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel, VBA, and .NET (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)

by Rob Bovey
4.8 out of 5 stars (28)  $37.79
› Explore similar items

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) was released in August of 2003. It brought the power of .NET to developing Word and Excel applications. While powerful, it was also lacking in some key features, and difficult to use. VSTO 2005 will be released as part of the Whidbey release. It will be incorporated in the more advanced versions of Visual Studio .NET 2005, and will also be available as a stand-alone product. It has corrected many of the major problems with the first version, and is poised to experience a rapid growth in usage. Coverage has been expanded to include Outlook and InfoPath in addition to Word and Excel. This book is not only written by key members of the team that developed VSTO 2005, but it will also be the first book available on VSTO. The authors provide both an introduction to VSTO as well as a tutorial for using it, including lots of practical examples, and a refreshing honesty about both the strengths and pitfalls of the technology. This book will be a must-have for all the developers considering VSTO.

From the Back Cover

"With the application development community so focused on the Smart Client revolution, a book that covers VSTO from A to Z is both important and necessary. This book lives up to big expectations. It is thorough, has tons of example code, and covers Office programming in general terms— topics that can be foreign to the seasoned .NET developer who has focused on ASP.NET applications for years. Congratulations to Eric Lippert and Eric Carter for such a valuable work!"

—Tim Huckaby, CEO, InterKnowlogy, Microsoft regional director

"This book covers all of the ins and outs of programming with Visual Studio Tools for Office in a clear and concise way. Given the authors' exhaustive experiences with this subject, you can't get a more authoritative description of VSTO than this book!"

—Paul Vick, technical lead, Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Corporation

"Eric and Eric really get it. Professional programmers will love the rich power of Visual Studio and .NET, along with the ability to tap into Office programmability. This book walks you through programming Excel, Word, InfoPath, and Outlook solutions."

—Vernon W. Hui, test lead, Microsoft Corporation

"This book is an in-depth, expert, and definitive guide to programming using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. It is a must-have book for anyone doing Office development."

—Siew Moi Khor, programmer/writer, Microsoft Corporation

"We don't buy technical books for light reading; we buy them as a resource for developing a solution. This book is an excellent resource for someone getting started with Smart Client development. For example, it is common to hear a comment along the lines of, 'It is easy to manipulate the Task Pane in Office 2003 using VSTO 2005,' but until you see something like the example at the start of Chapter 15, it is hard to put 'easy' into perspective. This is a thorough book that covers everything from calling Office applications from your application, to building applications that are Smart Documents. It allows the traditional Windows developer to really leverage the power of Office 2003."

—Bill Sheldon, principal engineer, InterKnowlogy, MVP

"Eric Carter and Eric Lippert have been the driving force behind Office development and Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. The depth of their knowledge and understanding of VSTO and Office is evident in this book. Professional developers architecting enterprise solutions using VSTO 2005 and Office System 2003 now have a new weapon in their technical arsenal."

—Paul Stubbs, program manager, Microsoft Corporation

"This book is both a learning tool and a reference book, with a richness of tables containing object model objects and their properties, methods, and events. I would recommend it to anyone considering doing Office development using the .NET framework; especially people interested in VSTO programming."

—Rufus Littlefield, software design engineer/tester, Microsoft Corporation

Visual Studio Tools for Office is both the first and the definitive book on VSTO 2005 programming, written by the inventors of the technology. VSTO is a set of tools that allow professional developers to use the full power of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework to put code behind Excel 2003, Word 2003, Outlook 2003, and InfoPath 2003. VSTO provides functionality never before available to the Office developer: data binding and data/view separation, design-time views of Excel and Word documents inside Visual Studio, rich support for Windows Forms controls in a document, the ability to create custom Office task panes, server-side programming support against Office, and much more.

Carter and Lippert cover their subject matter with deft insight into the needs of .NET developers learning VSTO. This book

  • Explains the architecture of Microsoft Office programming and introduces the object models

  • Teaches the three basic patterns of Office solutions: Office automation executables, Office add-ins, and code behind a document

  • Explores the ways of customizing Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath, and plumbs the depths of programming with their events and object models

  • Introduces the VSTO programming model

  • Teaches how to use Windows Forms in VSTO and how to work with the Actions Pane

  • Delves into VSTO data programming and server data scenarios

  • Explores .NET code security and VSTO deployment

Advanced material covers working with XML in Word and Excel, developing COM add-ins for Word and Excel, and creating Outlook add-ins with VSTO.


© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.



See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

  • Paperback: 1008 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (September 18, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321334884
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321334886
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #361,252 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in these categories: (What's this?)

    #48 in  Books > Computers & Internet > Microsoft > Applications > Outlook
    #74 in  Books > Computers & Internet > Microsoft > Scheduling & E-mail
    #100 in  Books > Computers & Internet > Microsoft > Applications > Word

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
42% buy the item featured on this page:
Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath (Microsoft .NET Development Series) 3.8 out of 5 stars (6)
$40.49
Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
39% buy
Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook (Microsoft .NET Development Series) 4.0 out of 5 stars (5)
$44.46
Pro Office 2007 Development with VSTO
7% buy
Pro Office 2007 Development with VSTO 2.0 out of 5 stars (1)
$34.99
VSTO for Mere Mortals(TM): A VBA Developer's Guide to Microsoft Office Development Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
7% buy
VSTO for Mere Mortals(TM): A VBA Developer's Guide to Microsoft Office Development Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office 4.6 out of 5 stars (7)
$34.99
Explore similar items

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant or enter your own tags in the field below.
(3)
(2)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
Help others find this product — tag it for Amazon search
No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet. Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more
 

Customer Reviews

6 Reviews
5 star:
 (4)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:
 (1)
1 star:
 (1)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.8 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Bible of VSTO, October 3, 2005
By Mohammad Jalloul (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
When you see volume that huge (952 pages less the index), you are led into thinking that this is another documentation rehash.

Well, this is not the case here. The book's size is well justified by the fact that they present the material with the least rehash possible and give realistic examples that are mostly usable without any modification or customization at all. Quite impressive, IMHO, is the fact that they take it really seriously and make the extra effort to write samples that properly follow coding conventions and style. It is quite sad and disappointing to still see these days books by self-proclaimed gurus presenting FooBar-ish sample code (due to lack of taste or lack of imagination) without an regard or respect to the readers. Whatever happened to coding style?

Even though the book is written by two Microsofties that have actually worked intimately with VSTO, and that's a clear advantage, they sure utilize that in the finest way possible: almost every page has a code snippet, a diagram, a table, or even a screenshot. The prose is direct to the point and avoids going excessively over material that is already available elsewhere, making this book one of the few huge books that are actually not boring. Heck, you can actually start coding from the first chapter.

Chapeau pas to Eric² for committing to deliver such a professional and comprehensive work.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Much value to be found here..., December 31, 2005
By Thomas Duff "Duffbert" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
(TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)      
Part of my 2006 professional goals involve learning more about Microsoft's collaboration software. To that end, I got a review copy of Eric Carter and Eric Lippert's book Visual Studio Tools for Office - Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath. Good stuff here...

Contents:
Part 1 - An Introduction to VSTO: An Introduction to Office Programming; Introduction to Office Solutions
Part 2 - Office Programming in .NET: Programming in Excel; Working with Excel Events; Working with Excel Objects; Programming Word; Working with Word Events; Working with Word Objects; Programming Outlook; Working with Outlook Events; Working with Outlook Objects; Introduction to InfoPath
Part 3 - Office Programming in VSTO: The VSTO Programming Model; Using Windows Forms in VSTO; Working with Action Pane; Working with Smart Tags in VSTO; VSTO Data Programming; Server Data Scenarios; .NET Code Security; Deployment
Part 4 - Advanced Office Programming: Working with XML in Excel; Working with XML in Word; Developing COM Add-Ins for Word and Excel; Creating Outlook Add-Ins with VSTO
Index

The two Erics have put together a very nice volume that shows how the programmability of Office is structured, and then how that object model can be used within the Visual Studio environment using special tools provided for that purpose. While you have to have the latest and greatest Office and VS software to follow along, their writing style is pretty straight-forward, and the reader should be able to pick up on the core concepts to understand the possibilities inherent in the integration. Even if you're not necessarily ready to fire up VS to program Word or Excel, Part 1 and 2 do a great job in showing the object layout of those Office components and how they can be manipulated. If you've never gotten into the code that can be added to a Word or Excel document, those two parts of the book would be worth it alone.

For me, I'm going to gain two benefits from this book. First, the object model information will help me better integrate Office into my Notes/Domino applications. I do some of that now, but the object model for Excel and Word have always been somewhat hazy to me. This book will help clarify those areas. Second, I think that knowing more about InfoPath will be part of my process as I seek to understand more about Microsoft collaboration application development. As a result, having this book should help me tie InfoPath into the Visual Studio environment and get a running start on my education.

Definitely a useful addition to your library if this is an area of interest to you...
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a tying together of C#/.NET with Microsoft Office, October 17, 2005
By W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews
(TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)      
This book ties together two longstanding traits of Microsoft, that long predate C# or .NET. The first is its Office suite, which is one of its main moneyspinners. The second is its tradition, going back to the early 80s, if not earlier, for writing nice development tools for programmers.

Undoubtedly, when Microsoft devised C#/.NET a few years ago, the abilities given in this book would have been a major goal. The book promises a synergy between C# and Office. The attraction is of course the huge user base for Office. To this ends, the book describes many ways to open up Office to programmatic control and customisation.

The code examples don't even seem all that hard, conceptually. No doubt, they were well chosen for this reason. The size of the book reflects its natural division. There are sections that correspond to the components of Office- Excel, Word, Outlook.

You can also see from the examples that there are groups of classes, in an object hierarchy that is very logically named so that you can easily get at the underlying data. For example, a worksheet under Excel is accessed as [naturally] Excel.Worksheet.

Open source proponents might decry this further lockin of a developer into Microsoft's arms. But if you are willing to put up with that, it has to be said that Microsoft does provide a lot of support.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Worthless for Word
If you just want to switch from VB to C# and are looking for a good how to reference this is not the book for you especially as it pertains to Microsoft Word. Read more
Published on August 28, 2006 by Norm Fox

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst prog book i have EVER read
THERE IS NO CODE Download, you get to ALL THE DOCUMENTS YOUR SELF, I have read most of the word portion (that's why I bought the book) If I had written this book I would have... Read more
Published on April 25, 2006 by Michael Kerr

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice walkthrough of programming and embedding in Office
This is a solid walkthrough of building C# automation code for Office, and for writing code that integrates into Office. Excel is covered in depth. Read more
Published on October 7, 2005 by Jack D. Herrington

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

 Beta (What's this?)
New! See all customer communities, and bookmark your communities to keep track of them.
This product's forum (0 discussions)
  Discussion Replies Latest Post
  No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
  [Cancel]


Active discussions in related forums
   

Product Information from the Amapedia Community

Beta (What's this?)

Look for Similar Items by Category

Tanaka Landscaping Power Tools

Shop for Tanaka products at Amazon.com

Tanaka provides commercial-grade blowers, trimmers, accessories, and other landscaping equipment for the homeowner.

›Shop all Tanaka

  

Best Books of 2008

Best of 2008
Find our top 100 editors' picks as well as customers' favorites in dozens of categories in our Best Books of 2008 Store.
  

Buy Three Books, Get a Fourth Free

4-for-3 Books
Order any four eligible books under $10 and get the lowest-price book free in our 4-for-3 Books Store. See more details.
  

Take a Saw in Hand

Shop for handsaws
For quick cuts, it's often easier to pick up a handsaw for your woodworking or carpentry projects.

›Shop for handsaws now

  
Ad

 

Feedback

If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.
 Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?

Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.


Where's My Stuff?

Shipping & Returns

Need Help?

Your Recent History

  (What's this?)
You have no recently viewed items or searches.

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.
Continue shopping: Top Sellers
Free
Free by Chris Anderson
3.5 out of 5 stars (15)$0.00
 Paranoia
Paranoia by Joseph Finder
4.1 out of 5 stars (202)$0.00
 My Soul to Lose
My Soul to Lose by Rachel Vincent
3.6 out of 5 stars (5)$0.00
 Glenn Beck's Common Sense
Glenn Beck's Common Sense by Glenn Beck
3.8 out of 5 stars (300)$6.59

amazon.com Amazon.com Home  |   Directory of All Stores
International Sites:  Canada  |  United Kingdom  |  Germany  |  Japan  |  France  |  China
Business Programs: Sell on Amazon  |  Build an eCommerce Site  |  Advertise With Us  |  Developer Services  |  Self-Publish with Us
Help  |  View Cart  |  Your Account  |  1-Click Settings  |  Join Associates  |  Join Advantage
Careers at Amazon  |  Investor Relations  |  Press Releases  |  Corporate Responsibility
Conditions of Use | Privacy Notice © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates