3. Programming Excel
Ways to Customize Excel
Excel is the application most frequently programmed against in the Office family. Excel has a very rich object model with 247 objects that combined have more than 5,000 properties and methods. It supports several models for integrating your code, including add-ins and code behind documents. Most of these models were originally designed to allow the integration of COM components written in Visual Basic 6, VBA, C, or C++. However, through COM interop, managed objects written in C# or Visual Basic can masquerade as COM objects and participate in most of these models. This chapter briefly considers several of the ways that you can integrate your code with Excel and refers you to other chapters that discuss ...
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