Part II: Office Programming in .NET

The first two chapters of this book introduced Office object models and the Office primary interop assemblies (PIAs). You have also seen how to use Visual Studio to build console applications, add-ins, and code behind the document using features of VSTO. The second part of this book covers the Office object models in more depth. If you are interested only in Excel development, read Chapters 3 through 5. If you are interested only in Word development, read Chapters 6 through 8. If you are interested only in Outlook development, read Chapters 10 through 11. If you are interested only in InfoPath development, read Chapter 12.

Chapter 3,“Programming Excel,” shows how you can customize Excel and, in particular, ...

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