Microsoft Office 97 Developers Handbook: With CDROM, Developing Professional Buisness Applications with the Office 97 Developer

by Christine Solomon

nced consultant Christine Solomon shows users how to automate and reengineer a wide assortment of businesses on the powerful Microsoft Office 97 platform. The CD-ROM contains source code and files for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572314400
• ISBN13: 9781572314405
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 570 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The best developer's guide I've read, bar none

If you are expecting a complete reference or a beginners guide to application development then you will probably be disappointed. If, however you are a developer with some experience trying to get to grips with this beast called Office 97 then this book is well worth a read.The author is clearly an accomplished developer and her style is business-like, "to the point" and CONSISTENT (you're not assumed to be a rocket scientist one minute and a complete novice the next). As any developer knows, there are often numerous ways to do the same thing when building applications. This book shows, and explains why it is often better to do things one way rather than another in MS Office. As a developer myself, I found that this book gave enough information to put me on the right track, but without labouring the point. The code examples have also been well thought out, illustrating the topics concisely so that they can be digested without necessarily having to try them out in order to understand them.It is not often that I read such books from cover to cover, but I was left feeling that I had been brought up to speed. If you need to write Office applications, read this book and save yourself some time!

Needs more on automation.

This book has a good premise but does not come through. I think most developers buying this book are looking for detailed help on automating the Office suites individual applications. There is one included chapter on automation and it is fairly good but the rest of the book is about using the individual apps. I would think anybody wanting knowledge about the individual applications would buy a book specifically on that app. In trying to do too much, this book ends up doing too little. Good for an overview and that is about it.