Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Chapter 24. Developing Office Business Applications

IN THIS CHAPTER

• An Overview of Office Extension Features 1074

• Creating an Office Add-In 1079

• Creating an Office Document Extension 1087

Microsoft Office is the well-known, best-selling suite of information worker productivity applications. We are all familiar with the word processing, spreadsheet, email, and form features provided by Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft InfoPath. But these applications are capable of more than just their stock features: They are a development platform unto themselves, a platform that can be extended and customized to build out line-of-business applications that leverage and build on the best-of-breed features offered by each ...