Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed

Chapter 21. Developing Office Business Applications

IN THIS CHAPTER

• An Overview of Office Extension Features

• Creating an Office Add-in

• Creating an Office Document Extension

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 application.

For instance, ...