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 documents and templates. 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 Action 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.

I. AN INTRODUCTION TO VSTO.
II. OFFICE PROGRAMMING IN .NET.
III. OFFICE PROGRAMMING IN VSTO.
IV. ADVANCED OFFICE PROGRAMMING