Developing for Office 2007 using VSTO 2005

Sudhakar Sadasivuni Microsoft India (R & D) Ltd Blog : www.SavvyBytes.com Website : O pen T o S ky.org

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“ WTH” - Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005

Why should we develop for Office?

The Big Picture

Architecture

Features for Developer

How to Start?

Demos

Clean & Secure Managed API

Powered by .NET 2.0

Write .NET code for Office Applications

Well documented Object Model

Take advantage of rich set of pre-built functionality

Develop for Highly matured platform

Unleash the computing power of Desktops

Widely spread platform

Nearest SW to the Users

To play with data and generate information

Information  Business Value

Composite Applications with Single Point Of Deployment

VSTO 2003

Document-level code behind

Brings Microsoft Office into the managed world

Strict security model

VSTO 2005

Custom ActionsPane

Host Controls on doc surface

Cached Data in the document

Server-side data processing

App-level add-ins for Outlook

+ VSTO 2005 Second Edition

10 More App-level add-ins

Visual designers for key UI features

Workflow & Microsoft SharePoint support

Data-bound Word Content Controls

App-level add-ins for most client programs (both 2003 & 2007)

Doc-level add-ins for Excel and Word 2007

ClickOnce deployment & security

VSTO “Orcas”

Visual designers for key UI features

Workflow & Microsoft SharePoint Support

Data binding in Word Content Controls

Application-level add-ins for most client programs (both 2003 & 2007)

Document-level add-ins for Excel & Word 2007

Improved deployment and security

No more Macros – No more malicious code

Inherits .NET Security Model + Office Security

Agnostic to Platform Change

Designer Support for Office Applications

Power coding with .NET languages

Visual Studio Tools for Office Design Time Stack Run Time Stack

SharePoint Excel, Word Excel, InfoPath, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Word, (Access, Project) Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, (Access) Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, (Access) Outlook Visual Studio Project Templates Office IDE Hosting Item Wizards Workflow Document Solutions Add-ins Ribbon Ribbon XML Form Regions

VSTO Runtime Office Client Host Managed/ Unmanaged Host Doc Task Pane Host Item Controls Windows Forms Controls Doc-Level Solution App-Level Add-in Custom Ribbon Custom Task Pane Custom Form Region App-Level Add-in VSTA Runtime Common VSTO/A Runtime .NET CLR Managed Add-in Framework (MAF) AppDomain Management Deployment and Updating Security Enforcement Doc-Level Solution ClickOnce

Document level VSTO Applications

Application level VSTO Applications

VSTO Add-ins for Office

Data Persistence & Manipulation

Office Version Agnostic App development

Excel. Application Microsoft.Office. Interop.Excel. Application VSTO PIA Representation Exposed COM Object Model Excel Internal Behavior Microsoft. Office. Tools.AddIn