Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook (Microsoft .NET Development Series) Book

Figures xxxi

Tables xlv

Foreword li

Preface lv

Acknowledgments lix

About the Authors lxi

Part I: An Introduction to VSTO 1

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Office Programming 3

Why Office Programming? 3

Office Business Applications 3

Office Object Models 7

Properties, Methods, and Events 14

The Office Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs) 39

Conclusion 48

Chapter 2: Introduction to Office Solutions 51

The Three Basic Patterns of Office Solutions 51

Office Automation Executables 54

Office Add-Ins 69

Code Behind a Document 78

Conclusion 86

Part II: Office Programming in .NET 87

Chapter 3: Programming Excel 89

Ways to Customize Excel 89

Programming User-Defined Functions 98

Introduction to the Excel Object Model 108

Conclusion 112

Chapter 4: Working with Excel Events 115

Events in the Excel Object Model 115

Conclusion 162

Chapter 5: Working with Excel Objects 163

Working with the Application Object 163

Working with the Workbooks Collection 178

Working with the Workbook Object 181

Working with the Worksheets, Charts,

Working with Document Properties 192

Working with the Windows Collections 195

Working with the Window Object 199

Working with the Names Collection and Name Object 202

Working with the Worksheet Object 204

Working with the Range Object 219

Special Excel Issues 235

Conclusion 241

Chapter 6: Programming Word 243

Ways to Customize Word 243

Programming Research Services 249

Introduction to the Word Object Model 261

Conclusion 262

Chapter 7: Working with Word Events 267

Events in the Word Object Model 267

Events in Visual Studio Tools for Office 307

Conclusion 310

Chapter 8: Working with Word Objects 311

Working with the Application Object 311

Working with the Dialog Object 332

Working with Windows 338

Working with Templates 341

Working with Documents 343

Working with a Document 348

Working with the Range Object 369

Working with Bookmarks 392

Working with Tables 394

Working with Content Controls 396

Conclusion 403

Chapter 9: Programming Outlook 405

Ways to Customize Outlook 405

Introduction to the Outlook Object Model 419

Conclusion 422

Chapter 10: Working with Outlook Events 425

Events in the Outlook Object Model 425

Application-Level Events 427

Outlook Item Events 448

Other Events 470

Conclusion 473

Chapter 11: Working with Outlook Objects 475

Working with the Application Object 475

Working with the Explorers and Inspectors Collections 486

Working with the Explorer Object 488

Working with the Inspector Object 501

Working with the NameSpace Object 506

Working with the Folder Object 519

Working with the Items Collection 534

Properties and Methods Common to Outlook Items 548

Conclusion 569

Part III: Office Programming in VSTO 571

Chapter 12: The VSTO Programming Model 573

The VSTO Programming Model for Documents 573

VSTO Extensions to Word and Excel Document Objects 576

Dynamic Controls in the Document 584

Advanced Topic: Class Hookup and Cookies 591

Advanced Topic: Inspecting the Generated Code 594

VSTO Extensions to the Word and Excel Object Models 599

The VSTO Programming Model for Add-Ins 619

Using VSTO Document Features in Application-Level Add-Ins 621

Advanced Topic: Creating Worksheets Dynamically 624

Conclusion 625

Chapter 13: Using Windows Forms and WPF in VSTO 627

Introduction 627

Adding Windows Forms Controls to Your Document 634

Writing Code Behind a Control 641

The Windows Forms Control Hosting Architecture 643

Properties Merged from OLEObject or OLEControl 654

Adding Controls at Runtime 658

Using WPF Controls in the Document 669

Conclusion 671

Chapter 14: Working with Document-Level Actions Panes 673

Introduction to the Document Actions Task Pane 673

Working with the ActionsPane Control 680

Using WPF Controls in an Actions Pane 697

Conclusion 699

Chapter 15: Working with Application-Level Custom Task Panes 701

Introduction to the Application-Level Custom Task Panes 701

Working with Custom Task Panes 704

Custom Task Panes and Application Windows 710

Using WPF Controls in a Custom Task Pane 719

Conclusion 722

Chapter 16: Working with Outlook Form Regions 723

Introduction to Form Regions 723

Form Region Types and Custom Message Classes 743

Creating an Outlook Forms-Based Form Region 749

Outlook Form Region Programmability 765

Conclusion 774

Chapter 17: Working with the Ribbon in VSTO 777

Introduction to the Office Ribbon 777

Working with the Ribbon in the Ribbon Designer 800

Creating a Ribbon in an Excel Workbook Project 812

Creating a Ribbon in an Outlook Add-In Project 825

Advanced Ribbon Topics 836

Conclusion 850

Chapter 18: Working with Smart Tags in VSTO 851

Introduction to Smart Tags 851

Creating Document-Level Smart Tags with VSTO 855

Creating Application-Level Smart Tags 874

Conclusion 880

Chapter 19: VSTO Data Programming 881

Creating a Data-Bound Customized Spreadsheet with VSTO 882

Creating a Data-Bound Customized Word Document with VSTO 889

Datasets, Adapters, and Sources 891

Another Technique for Creating Data-Bound Documents 901

Caching Data in the Data Island 908

Advanced Topic: Using ICachedType 911

Advanced ADO.NET Data Binding: Looking Behind the Scenes 913

Binding-Related Extensions to Host Items and Host Controls 914

Using Data Binding and Dynamic Controls from an Application-Level Add-In 921

Conclusion 928

Chapter 20: Server Data Scenarios 929

Populating a Document with Data on the Server 929

Using ServerDocument and ASP.NET 931

A Handy Client-Side ServerDocument Utility 939

The ServerDocument Object Model 941

Conclusion 952

Chapter 21: ClickOnce Deployment 955

Introduction 955

Prerequisites 956

Deploying Add-Ins 958

Deploying Document Solutions 982

ClickOnce Security 995

Other Deployment Scenarios 1009

Advanced Topic: Editing Manifests Using Mage 1010

Conclusion 1015

Bibliography 1017

Index 1019