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Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath
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Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath

by Eric Carter, Eric Lippert
September 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
21h 2m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 14. Using Windows Forms in VSTO

Introduction

Office has a user interface that has been designed to make it as easy as possible for an end user to access the functionality provided by each Office application. But the application that you are writing that is integrated with Office will have its own very specific user-interface requirements. The application you write will have user-interface needs that are not met by the default Office user interface.

In previous versions of Office, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) provided the ability to show User Forms to meet your application user-interface requirements. You could also use custom ActiveX controls on the document surface. Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) adds Windows Forms control ...

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