? KD Hallman, General Manager, Microsoft, Developer Division "This book is an excellent choice for VBA developers who want to switch to the NET development for Office using Visual Studio Tools for Office .. Hansen? Steve, OfficeZealot.com, author of Mastering Excel 2003 Programming with VBA and coauthor of Mastering Excel 2000 Premium Edition "Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office is the way to go for building managed Office applications. Ken Getz, Senior Consultant, MCW Technologies,? LLC "This book is highly recommended for VBA developers who are interested in doing Office programming using the rich power of Visual Studio and NET .." Justin Whitney?, Technical Journalist "This book provides resources directly accessible to VBA and Office developers to become familiar with new powerful Office development platform, but even beyond that, provides a number of 'worth buying the book' tips, fully functional examples, and elegant methods from someone who has obviously spent a lot of time with the tools to help the mortal on the road to becoming a teacher. " Rory Plaire?, Solutions Architect, DigitalCommons LLC "For Office VBA developer interested in programming in NET or. NET programmers. Looking to move to the Office platforms, this book is worth its weight in gold. If you are looking for sources, wells are complete written quickly get you up to speed to develop and solutions Office programs in Visual Studio 2005, I believe this book is a must-have. " ? Frank Rice, Programming Writer, Microsoft Office Developer Center "With this book, VBA developers have access to vast resources that will help them understand the essential concepts of managed code and best practices to migrate VBA solutions to Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office. ? Eric Lippert, Software Design Engineer, Microsoft VSTO for Mere humans? Is for VBA developers who are interested in migrating their skills to the next generation of Office development. Readers will also learn how to create add-ins for most popular applications for Office 2003 and 2007 Microsoft Office system using VSTO 2005 SE. The expert authors provide many examples of code that show off popular features of VSTO, such as smart tags and the action bar. Sample code also shows you how to customize the new UI features of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, including the pane, custom ribbon task, and Outlook forms region. VBA developers will walk away with A greater understanding of managed code and Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) Multiple demonstrations on how to create document-level customization for Word 2003 and Excel 2003, using view controls, data binding, and comprehensive action paneA add-in development for Outlook 2003Useful information secure and using solutions built with VSTO and VSTO 2005 SEA thorough explanation on how to migrate VBA solutions to Visual Basic 2005 and details on adjusting VSTONumerous pane, custom ribbon task, and Outlook form regions by developing VSTO 2005 SE add-ins for system Microsoft Office 2007