Chapter 2. Introduction to Office Solutions
The Three Basic Patterns of Office Solutions
Now that you understand the basic pattern of the Office object models, this chapter explains how developers pattern and build their Office solutions. Most solutions built using Office follow one of three patterns:
Office automation executable
Office add-in
Code behind an Office document
An automation executable is a program separate from Office that controls and automates an Office application. An automation executable can be created with development tools such as Visual Studio. A typical example is a standalone console application or Windows Forms application that starts up an Office application and then automates it to perform some task. To start a solution built ...
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