Any good books or resources for Office Automation

[ThomasAJ]

I have looked all over Amazon and the net for a how-to book on Office
Automation without success. There seems to be a good one for FoxPro
developers (Microsoft Office Automation for FoxPro) but not for Visual Basic.

Automation programming is the MOST frustrating programming I have ever
experienced in 30 years of development. There seems to be a real lack of
INDEPTH information. I do mean indepth. There's a LOT of very superficial
stuff but very little indepth, 1000+ pages would just touch the surface and I
can't even find 100+ pages.

Am I blind?

 

[Helmut Obertanner]

Not sure what you are searching for,
maybe "Office Developers Guide" is a good choice.

--
regards

Helmut Obertanner
Technical Consultant

Softwaredevelopment
DATALOG Software AG | Zschokkestr. 36 | D-80687 Munich
web: www.datalog.de


.... and IT works!

 

[Fruber Malcome]

A really good book that I heard about in this group, and have since read:
Microsoft .NET Development for Microsoft Office by Andrew Whitechapel
ISBN 0735621322

hope this helps.
Fruber

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I have looked all over Amazon and the net for a how-to book on Office
Automation without success. There seems to be a good one for FoxPro
developers (Microsoft Office Automation for FoxPro) but not for Visual Basic.

This is, indeed, the best book on Office automation, and the only one I
whole-heartedly recommend, no matter which programming language. After all, the
object models don't change, so the information about automating OFFICE is
really the same. You just have to learn to translate the FoxPro-specific syntax
to VB...

Beyond that, a new book for Excel development just came out, from Stephen
Bullen, Rob Bovey and John Green. A good portion of that book is applicable to
general Office automation, however, if you're looking for information beyond
the applications' object models.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[ThomasAJ]

Thanks all especially Word expert Cindy.

I dug a little harder at Amazon and ordered two books:

"Microsoft Office Programming" and "Microsoft Office XP Developer" and see
how I go. I will post my reviews down the track.