It is comprehensive, has many examples of code, and covers Office programming in general? Topics that can be foreign to the NET experienced developers. Which has focused on ASP.NET applications for years. Congratulations to Eric Lippert and Eric Carter for a valuable work!? Huckaby? Tim, CEO, InterKnowlogy, Microsoft regional director? The book covers in a clear and concise manner all the ins and outs of programming with Visual Studio Tools for Office. Hui, test lead, Microsoft Corporation? This book is deep, expert-in, and the definitive guide to programming using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. This is a comprehensive book that covers everything from calling Office applications from your application, for building applications that Smart Document. This allows the traditional Windows developer to really leverage the power of Office 2003.? .? Bill Sheldon principal, engineer, InterKnowlogy, Eric MVP? Carter and Eric Lippert has pushed the power back office development and Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Professional developers architecting enterprise solutions using VSTO 2005 and Office System 2003 now have a new weapon in their technical warehouse.? .? Paul Stubbs, program manager, Microsoft Corporation's this? The book is a good learning tool and reference book, with a wealth of tables containing object model objects and their properties, methods, and events I would recommend it to anyone considering doing Office development using the framework. NET, particularly people interested in VSTO programming.? Littlefield? Rufus, a software design engineer / tester, Microsoft Corporation Visual Studio Tools for Office is both the first and definitive book on VSTO 2005 programming, written by the inventor of the technology. VSTO is a set of tools that allows professional developers to use the full power of Visual Studio NET and. NET Framework. To put code behind Excel 2003, Word 2003, Outlook 2003, and InfoPath 2003. VSTO provides functionality never 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 the document, the ability to create custom task pane of Office, server -side programming support against Office, and more. Carter and Lippert cover their subject matter with deft insight into the needs. NET developers learning VSTO. This book Describe the architecture of Microsoft Office programming and introduces the object modelsTeaches three basic patterns of Office solutions: Office automation executables, Office add-ins, and code behind documentExplores ways to customize Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath, and plumbs the depths of programming with their events and modelsIntroduces object of Teaching VSTO programming model how to use Windows Forms in VSTO and how to work with PaneDelves Action into the program data and data servers scenariosExplores VSTO. 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. The sample code is available in book? S webpage.