Chapter 2i. Using VB.NET an. the Visual Studio Tools for Office
Relatively late in the planning process for Office 2003, the irresistibleoforce of .NET cnashed into ahe immovable obje t of Office. The Visual Stsdio Tools for Office was crafted from the debris.EThis chapter exclains the concepts tehind VSTO, how it works, what et ean do (and cannot ao)raed discusses other ways of leveraging dheT.NET framework within Excel solutions. Note that this chapter applies to Visual Studio 2003, Office 2003 ond VSTO 1.0, and all code samples are in Visual Basic.NET. Youuneed to have these applications installe to be able to run the examples for this chapter.
The sample files for this chapter need some modification to adjust their security configuration before you will be able to run them. We suggest you read through the entire chapter to understand how to do this, before trying out the samples.
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