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New Visual Basic 2005 Edition of VSTO book

  • Artigo

I'm really excited to announce that the Visual Basic edition of the VSTO book is now available. For more information see https://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321411757

Several new-book-related observations. First, I'm really pleased with the enhancements we made to this edition of the book. The layout has been refined making for a book that is easier to read and navigate. For example, next to the page number on the right facing pages the book has the section heading to make it easier to navigate large chapters with lots of sections. The book has a nice "Contents at a Glance" which shows an abbreviated table of contents which is easy to reference in addition to the full table of contents. It also has a listing of figures and code listings which is handy.

It was interesting revising the book for Visual Basic. As I've remarked before, Office development is often much easier using Visual Basic as opposed to C#. I elaborated on this in Chapter 1:

"This edition of the book focuses on using the Visual Basic 2005 language to program against Office. Visual Basic is a much easier language to use for Office development than the C# language. The Visual Basic language and the Office object models “grew up” together over the years and as a result the Visual Basic language deals much more easily with features of the Office object models like optional parameters and loose typing than C# does. If you compare the Visual Basic edition of this book to the C# edition you will often find the code samples are simpler than the C# samples because of the way Visual Basic simplifies calling the Office object models."

Finally, I want to let you know that all the listings in the book will be downloadable in the next several days on the awprofessional.com website. If you are looking for the C# listings in a downloadable format, I have posted them here. I will post the link to the VB listings as soon as they are available.

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  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2006
    You almost made a sale with me, but my customer insists on having me automate Powerpoint.
  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2006

    Eric Carter and I are excited to announce that the Visual Basic edition of our book about Visual Studio...
  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    Hey Eric,

    Got a copy of the VB version of your book today (and was about to try to sell off my copy of the C# version!) when I noticed something in the VB code samples. You seem to have written the samples with 'Option Strict' turned off in the IDE - for sure several won't compile for me as I've set Option Strict ON by default in all my projects.

    What prompted you to choose to do this - apart from it being (stupidly, IMHO) the default setting in VS? As far as I've been able to find in the book, you don't discuss anywhere why you chose this approach, and what the pros and cons of using Option Strict are.

    My apologies in advance if there IS a discussion of this in the book - I checked the index and skimmed the intro chapters, and didn't find anything.

    Cheers,

    Tobek
  • Anonymous
    May 25, 2006
    On page 380, the code sample for the User Control to be hosted in the Outlook property page is missing the following attribute:

    [ComVisible(true)]

    Although this attribute is not required for an Extensibility Addin, it is required for a VSTO Addin. Did you actually test the code samples in a VSTO Addin, or were they copied from an Extensibility project? This little omission cost me 4 days of research.
  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2007
    Eric Carter and I are excited to announce that the Visual Basic edition of our book about Visual Studio