Chapter 25. Writing Managed COM Add-ins with VB.NET
Chapter 23, “Excel and Visual Basic 6,” demonstrated how to create unmanaged COM add-ins using the add-in designer. In this chapter we perform the same task using VB.NET and its Shared Add-in Template. This template is the natural successor to the add-in designer in Classic VB. To use the code examples presented in this chapter you need Visual Studio 2008 Standard or higher and Excel 2003 or later. The Ribbon user interface examples require Excel 2007.
A cornerstone of modern, object oriented programming is the use of classes. Class modules were intentionally ignored in the preceding chapter, but we introduce them here. We also briefly discuss setup packages, which are automatically created when ...
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