Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 Programming Inside Out

Chapter 11. Creating Add-Ins and COM Add-Ins

Introducing Add-Ins

Using the Add-Ins dialog box

Creating Excel Add-Ins

Using the AddIns Collection

Creating Automation and COM Add-Ins

Building an Automation Add-In with Visual Basic 6

Building a COM Add-In with Visual Basic .NET

This chapter introduces the concept of add-ins. In this chapter, you’ll learn what an add-in is, how to load and unload add-ins from Microsoft Excel, some common add-ins supplied with Excel, and how to create your own Excel add-in.

Introducing Add-Ins

Add-ins allow you to extend Excel by adding commands and features to those normally found in Excel. These commands and features can be found in many different places, including files that were installed with Excel, the Microsoft Office ...