bxw

I know the books list in the sticky thread, but they don't have very good ratings on Amazon. Please tell me your favorite books on VSTO.

A little bit about me. I am pretty good with C# and VB .Net, but don't know much about Office programming (not even VBA for office :)

Thanks a lot.



Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Book suggestion plz on VSTO

Cindy Meister

There just aren't any other (more) books available for VSTO than those listed.

If you need to learn about the Office object models, then you need material centered on the individual application. For Excel, I can recommend "Professional Excel Development" by Bullen, Bovey and Green (Addision Wesley). They even have a short bit in there on .NET and VSTO.

There isn't much out there for Word written in English, but a good (if somewhat out-dated) over-view of the OM can be found in "Writing Word Macros" by S. Roman (O'Reilly).

The best place to get a discussion going about books for any particular object model is a newsgroup for the particular application (see the "Please Read First" sticky message)






Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Book suggestion plz on VSTO

Dennis Wallentin

Hi,

I would suggest that You look for the "Visual Studio Tools for Office using..." book by Carter and Lippert as it gives most details about the Office Object Model in one book. See if You can get a used copy of it to save some money  

In general there exist a dilemma when it comes to VSTO as there exist two groups:
- Genuine Office developers who need/want .NET knowledge but not Office knowledge
- C#/VB.NET developers who need/want Office knowledge but not .NET knowledge.

If a book buyer is in the "wrong" group for a book then it's not interesting.  

Except for that the high pace of developing VSTO (which is necessary) makes books on the subject obsolete in short times.






Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Book suggestion plz on VSTO

bxw

Thanks a lot, Cindy and Dennis. Guess I have to hang around this forum a lot





Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Book suggestion plz on VSTO

Bojan Dulejan

In addition to books already mentioned, also try Professional VSTO 2005, Alvin Bruney, Wiley Publishing.