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# VSTO for Mere Mortals¿: A VBA Developer's Guide to Microsoft Office Development Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office

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Review: Dated Material - Does not cover Office 2013, too old dated. Excel objects have changed over the various Office releases, very hard to relate to latest Office 2013 release.
Review: Fantastic book - In the beginning 4 chapters which help you sharpen the tool of Visual Studio. Which let you understand how easy to develop with VSTO as VBA in Office even VSTO is .NET programming. The rest of the book base on it to work out some scenarios with VSTO so that you can apply in daily job. Read this book then back to read "Visual Studio Tools for Office" do help a lot.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #12,240,299 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #270 in Microsoft VBA #1,158 in Microsoft Office Guides #8,318 in Web Design (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 3.4 out of 5 stars 7 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐ Dated Material
*by R***E on October 11, 2013*

Does not cover Office 2013, too old dated. Excel objects have changed over the various Office releases, very hard to relate to latest Office 2013 release.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic book
*by S***G on November 9, 2008*

In the beginning 4 chapters which help you sharpen the tool of Visual Studio. Which let you understand how easy to develop with VSTO as VBA in Office even VSTO is .NET programming. The rest of the book base on it to work out some scenarios with VSTO so that you can apply in daily job. Read this book then back to read "Visual Studio Tools for Office" do help a lot.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect for moving from VBA to VSTO
*by G***E on April 28, 2007*

Traditionally, developing on the Office platform meant that you would use VBA but Microsoft released Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) a few years ago to let .NET developers use their skills to develop managed Office applications. Moving from VBA to .NET is not easy because you need to learn so much new stuff especially if you never touched .NET in any way. "VSTO for Mere Mortals" is a book targeted at VBA developers who never used .NET before. In the first chapters, the authors explain what is VSTO and what features are available for developers. Chapter 2 and 3 introduce the Visual Studio development environment and managed code. Seasoned .NET developers will skip these chapters but they are essential for people who never used Visual Studio before. The next chapters cover everything VSTO from Word, Excel and Outlook development to Smart Tags and database development. A full chapter is devoted to new features of VSTO 2005 SE and Office 2007. If you're a VBA developer that wants to jump into .NET development using VSTO, look no further, this is the book for you. Experienced .NET will also find this book interesting but will skip a couple of .NET introduction chapters.

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