Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel, VBA, and .NET, 2 Ed

The Start-to-Finish Guide to Building State-of-the-Art Solutions with Excel 2007

In this book, four world-class Microsoft® Excel developers offer start-to-finish guidance for building powerful, robust, and secure applications with Excel. The authors—three of whom have been honored by Microsoft as Excel Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs)—show how to consistently make the right design decisions and make the most of Excel’s most powerful new features. Using their techniques,you can reduce development costs, time to market, and hassle—and build more effective, successful solutions.

Fully updated for Excel 2007, this book starts where other books on Excel programming leave off. Through a hands-on case study project, you’ll discover best practices for planning, architecting, and building Excel applications that are robust, secure, easy to maintain, and highly usable. If you’re a working developer, no other book on Excel programming offers you this much depth, insight, or value.

• Design worksheets that will be more useful and reliable

• Leverage built-in and application-specific add-ins

• Construct applications that behave like independent Windows programs

• Make the most of the new Ribbon user interface

• Create cross-version applications that work with legacy versions of Excel

• Utilize XML within Excel applications

• Understand and use Windows API calls

• Master VBA error handling, debugging, and performance optimization

• Develop applications based on data stored in Access, SQL Server, and other databases

• Build powerful visualization solutions with Excel charting engine

• Learn how to work with VB.NET and leverage its IDE

• Automate Microsoft Excel with VB.NET

• Create managed COM add-ins for Microsoft Excel with VB.NET

• Develop Excel solutions with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)

• Integrate Excel with Web Services

• Deploy applications more securely and efficiently