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Luis E Valencia
Can somebody tell me the best book for advanced programming with Office Web
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Josh Sale
I'm only aware of two (both of which I own):
Programming Office 2000 Web Components
Pretty good but it doesn't deal with 2002 or 2003 versions of OWC. Out of
print so you need to dig to find a copy.
Professional ASP Programming Guide for Office Web Component
IMHO, a total waste of money.
Good luck and let us know if you find a good book.
josh
Programming Office 2000 Web Components
Pretty good but it doesn't deal with 2002 or 2003 versions of OWC. Out of
print so you need to dig to find a copy.
Professional ASP Programming Guide for Office Web Component
IMHO, a total waste of money.
Good luck and let us know if you find a good book.
josh
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ecook
Check out Qimao Zhang's book. I read on dbforum threads that it has promise though may not answer everything. I think the title is something like: Professional ASP Programming Guide for Office Web Components: with Office 2000 and Office X
~$27 on amazon..
~$27 on amazon..
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Alvin Bruney [MVP]
Professional ASP Programming Guide for Office Web Component
why do you think this book is a total waste of money?
IMHO, a total waste of money.
why do you think this book is a total waste of money?
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Josh Sale
As a programming guide, I thought it was almost content free. The section
on XP was way to thin. It wasted a bunch of time on things that have
nothing to do with OWC (e.g., variable naming conventions). Poorly
written/edited.
Just my opinion ...
josh
on XP was way to thin. It wasted a bunch of time on things that have
nothing to do with OWC (e.g., variable naming conventions). Poorly
written/edited.
Just my opinion ...
josh
Alvin Bruney said:Professional ASP Programming Guide for Office Web Component
IMHO, a total waste of money.
why do you think this book is a total waste of money?
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Regards,
Alvin Bruney [ASP.NET MVP]
Got tidbits? Get it here...
http://tinyurl.com/27cok
Josh Sale said:I'm only aware of two (both of which I own):
Programming Office 2000 Web Components
Pretty good but it doesn't deal with 2002 or 2003 versions of OWC. Out of
print so you need to dig to find a copy.
Professional ASP Programming Guide for Office Web Component
IMHO, a total waste of money.
Good luck and let us know if you find a good book.
josh
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Alvin Bruney [MVP]
so you would like more content/examples?
--
Regards,
Alvin Bruney [ASP.NET MVP]
Got tidbits? Get it here...
http://tinyurl.com/27cok
--
Regards,
Alvin Bruney [ASP.NET MVP]
Got tidbits? Get it here...
http://tinyurl.com/27cok
Josh Sale said:As a programming guide, I thought it was almost content free. The section
on XP was way to thin. It wasted a bunch of time on things that have
nothing to do with OWC (e.g., variable naming conventions). Poorly
written/edited.
Just my opinion ...
josh
Alvin Bruney said:Professional ASP Programming Guide for Office Web Component
IMHO, a total waste of money.
why do you think this book is a total waste of money?
--
Regards,
Alvin Bruney [ASP.NET MVP]
Got tidbits? Get it here...
http://tinyurl.com/27cok
Josh Sale said:I'm only aware of two (both of which I own):
Programming Office 2000 Web Components
Pretty good but it doesn't deal with 2002 or 2003 versions of OWC. Out of
print so you need to dig to find a copy.
Professional ASP Programming Guide for Office Web Component
IMHO, a total waste of money.
Good luck and let us know if you find a good book.
josh
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Josh Sale
The book should:
- Be accurate.
- Up to date (today that would mean being focused on OWC11).
- Clearly written.
- Have meaningful examples that reflect the way people are going to actually
use the product.
- Stay on topic (e.g., stay on OWC and not wonder a field).
- Not just be a recitation of the properties and methods as already
described in the MS distributed OWC help files but should also talk about
bigger strategies for using the components.
- Expand on the MS distibuted OWC help files where they are lacking or
inaccurate.
- Compare and contrast OWC to Excel's object model (there is a large group
of programmers who already know that model and a transistion guide would be
very useful).
- Not ignore .Net (since that's many of us have to live now).
- Not ignore ASP and ASP.Net.
- Describe the known OWC limitations and include work arounds.
- Have a good index.
I would point you to John Walkenbach's books on Excel programming as very
good models. I think as a group, the editors at O'Reilly do the best job
(their Nutshell series is terrific). As a group, the editors at WROX do the
worst (the books are invariably a hodge podge written by a group of authors
who it seems have never met and their books always have the worst indexes).
josh
- Be accurate.
- Up to date (today that would mean being focused on OWC11).
- Clearly written.
- Have meaningful examples that reflect the way people are going to actually
use the product.
- Stay on topic (e.g., stay on OWC and not wonder a field).
- Not just be a recitation of the properties and methods as already
described in the MS distributed OWC help files but should also talk about
bigger strategies for using the components.
- Expand on the MS distibuted OWC help files where they are lacking or
inaccurate.
- Compare and contrast OWC to Excel's object model (there is a large group
of programmers who already know that model and a transistion guide would be
very useful).
- Not ignore .Net (since that's many of us have to live now).
- Not ignore ASP and ASP.Net.
- Describe the known OWC limitations and include work arounds.
- Have a good index.
I would point you to John Walkenbach's books on Excel programming as very
good models. I think as a group, the editors at O'Reilly do the best job
(their Nutshell series is terrific). As a group, the editors at WROX do the
worst (the books are invariably a hodge podge written by a group of authors
who it seems have never met and their books always have the worst indexes).
josh
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Alvin Bruney [MVP]
thanks
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