Part IV: Advanced Office Programming

Part IV covers some advanced Office programming scenarios, including using the XML features of Excel and Word, building COM add-ins for Word and Excel, and building VSTO add-ins for Outlook:

Chapter 21, “Working with XML in Excel,” explores Excel’s XML schema-mapping capabilities and the features of VSTO that are enabled when you map a schema into the document.

Chapter 22, “Working with XML in Word,” explores Word’s XML schema-mapping capabilities and the features of VSTO that are enabled when you map a schema into the document. This chapter also covers VSTO’s support for the WordML file format.

Chapter 23, “Developing COM Add-Ins for Word and Excel,” describes how to create a managed COM add-in in ...

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