Microsoft Office XP Developer's Guide [antikvár]

Foreword Congratulations! If you are reading this foreword, you are part of the strong community of professional developers who either are using Microsoft® Office as a part of a custom business solution or are very interested in learning how to utilize Office as a great platform for solutions. This book is the best available resource for learning how to take advantage of the new programmability features of Office XP. More than 2.6 million developers currently are using Office as a part of their custom business solutions. Why are so many developers building solutions with Office? For starters. Office can now be found on more than 125 million users' desktops. In addition, developers have recognized that leveraging the Office platform found on users' desktops is the best way to build business solutions that integrate into the environment already familiar to users—thus reducing expenses, such as training efforts and support calls. With the release of Office XP, Microsoft has worked hard to augment the award winning work in previous versions of Office with new features that make it possible for broader solution types to be built with Office. With this release, Microsoft has continued to improve the Office Component Object Model (COM) and to integrate Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) throughout Office. Having a consistent development language and environment greatly simplifies developers' efforts in building solutions and working with the objects and the services Office provides. In addition, in this release, Microsoft has provided a broad new set of tools and services that work hand-in-hand with VBA: • Extensible Markup Language (XML) Support Microsoft® Excel and Microsoft® Access can natively read and write XML documents. • Smart Tag Technology Smart Tags are COM objects that dynamically associate relevant words or terms with relevant user actions. This technology is extensible and makes it possible for e-mail, spreadsheets, and documents to "come alive." • Office Web Components In an effort to bring the richness of Office to the Web, Microsoft has updated the Office Web Components and made it possible for broader customization and distribution of data solutions. • Workflow Designers Found in Office XP Developer, the new workflow designers for Microsoft® Exchange Server and Microsoft® SQL Server^" provide a quick and easy design surface to build workflow applications. • Data Access Page Designer Updated since last version based on customer feedback, the Data Access Page Designer makes it possible for Access developers to build web-based applications leveraging the Access skills they already have.