Vsto for Mere Mortals?: A VBA Developer's Guide to Microsoft Office Development Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office

by Kathleen McGrath and Paul Stubbs

Book Overview

Praise for "VSTO for Mere Mortals " "This is the book I wish I'd had when I was first introduced to VSTO and the .NET Framework. It will be invaluable not only to those considering VSTO, but for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321426711
• ISBN13: 9780321426710
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 689 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great reference!

If you need a reference on how to write programs that interface with Office products then this is your book!

Fantastic book

In the beginning 4 chapters which help you sharpen the tool of Visual Studio. Which let you understand how easy to develop with VSTO as VBA in Office even VSTO is .NET programming. The rest of the book base on it to work out some scenarios with VSTO so that you can apply in daily job. Read this book then back to read "Visual Studio Tools for Office" do help a lot.

VSTO is excelent for .net programmers as well as vba programmers

I found the book thorough and easy to read and follow. It reviewed .net extremely well, and made me aware of .net capabilities I had overlooked since the old ones worked. I met a problem early on in my use of the book, communicated with the author, and got the help I needed to overcome the problem. An excellent book on the subject.

Perfect for moving from VBA to VSTO

Traditionally, developing on the Office platform meant that you would use VBA but Microsoft released Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) a few years ago to let .NET developers use their skills to develop managed Office applications. Moving from VBA to .NET is not easy because you need to learn so much new stuff especially if you never touched .NET in any way. "VSTO for Mere Mortals" is a book targeted at VBA developers who never used .NET before. In the first chapters, the authors explain what is VSTO and what features are available for developers. Chapter 2 and 3 introduce the Visual Studio development environment and managed code. Seasoned .NET developers will skip these chapters but they are essential for people who never used Visual Studio before. The next chapters cover everything VSTO from Word, Excel and Outlook development to Smart Tags and database development. A full chapter is devoted to new features of VSTO 2005 SE and Office 2007. If you're a VBA developer that wants to jump into .NET development using VSTO, look no further, this is the book for you. Experienced .NET will also find this book interesting but will skip a couple of .NET introduction chapters.

Great Book!!

This book (VSTO for Mere Mortals) is very well written and easy to understand. I did not come from a programming background. I started by learning VBA so making the move from VBA to the .NET /VSTO world was a bit intimidating for me, however; after reading and following the examples in this book, making that leap is not as hard as I thought it would be. I love the detailed code samples in the book and the step-by-step way that they are presented. I really learned a lot from reading this book. Thank you to all that contributed to putting this book together.