Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel and VBA, and .NET 2nd Edition Book/CD Package

As Excel applications become more complex and the Windows development platform more powerful, Excel developers need books like this to help them evolve their solutions to the next level of sophistication. Professional Excel Development is a book for developers who want to build powerful, state-of-the-art Excel applications using the latest Microsoft technologies.

Gabhan Berry, Program Manager, Excel Programmability, Microsoft

 

The first edition of Professional Excel Development is my most-consulted and most-recommended book on Office development. The second edition expands both the depth and range. It shines because it takes every issue one step further than you expect. The book relies on the authors current, real-world experience to cover not only how a feature works, but also the practical implications of using it in professional work.

Shauna Kelly, Director, Thendara Green

 

This book illustrates techniques that will result in well-designed, robust, and maintainable Excel-based applications. The authors advice comes from decades of solid experience of designing and building applications. The practicality of the methods is well illustrated by the example timesheet application that is developed step-by-step through the book. Every serious Excel developer should read this and learn from it. I did.

Bill Manville, Application Developer, Bill Manville Associates

 

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 authorsthree 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 Excels most powerful new features. Using their techniques,you can reduce development costs, time to market, and hassleand 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, youll discover best practices for planning, architecting, and building Excel applications that are robust, secure, easy to maintain, and highly usable. If youre 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

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Rob Bovey, president of Application Professionals, specializes in MS Office, VB, and SQL Server application development. He developed several Excel add-ins shipped by Microsoft, and co-authored the Microsoft Excel 97 Developers Kit and Excel 2007 VBA Programmer's Reference. Stephen Bullen, co-author of The Excel 2007 VBA Programmer's Reference, owns Office Automation, Ltd. Dennis Wallentin, has developed Excel solutions since the 1980s through his firm, XL-Dennis. John Green (Sydney, Australia) owns Execuplan Consulting, which specializing in Excel and Access development. All four are Microsoft MVPs.

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Acknowledgments . . . xiv

About the Authors . . . xv

Chapter 1 Introduction

About This Book . . . 1

Who Should Read This Book . . . 2

Excel Developer Categories . . . 2

Excel as an Application Development Platform . . . 4

Structure . . . 7

Examples . . . 8

Supported Versions of Excel . . . 9

Typefaces . . . 10

On the CD . . . 10

Help and Support . . . 11

The Professional Excel Development Web Site . . . 12

Feedback . . . 12

Chapter 2 Application Architectures

Concepts . . . 13

Chapter 3 Excel and VBA Development Best Practices

Naming Conventions . . . 27

Best Practices for Application Structure and Organization . . . 40

General Application Development Best Practices . . . 45

Chapter 4 Worksheet Design

Principles of Good Worksheet UI Design . . . 69

Program Rows and Columns: The Fundamental UI Design Technique . . . 70

Defined Names . . . 71

Styles . . . 78

User Interface Drawing Techniques . . . 83

Data Validation . . . 88

Conditional Formatting . . . 92

Using Controls on Worksheets . . . 98

Practical Example . . . 100

Chapter 5 Function, General, and Application-Specific Add-ins

The Four Stages of an Application . . . 107

Function Library Add-ins . . . 110

General Add-ins . . . 117

Application-Specific Add-ins . . . 118

Practical Example . . . 125

Chapter 6 Dictator Applications

Structure of a Dictator Application . . . 141

Practical Example . . . 157

Chapter 7 Using Class Modules to Create Objects

Creating Objects . . . 166

Creating a Collection . . . 170

Trapping Events . . . 177

Raising Events . . . 180

Practical Example . . . 188

Chapter 8 Advanced Command Bar Handling

Command Bar Design . . . 198

Table-Driven Command Bars . . . 199

Putting It All Together . . . 219

Loading Custom Icons from Files . . . 228

Hooking Command Bar Control Events . . . 232

Practical Example . . . 241

Chapter 9 Introduction to XML

XML . . . 249

Chapter 10 The Office 2007 Ribbon User Interface

The RibbonX Paradigm . . . 273

An Introduction to the Office 2007 Open XML File Format . . . 274

Ribbon Design and Coding Best Practices . . . 278

Table-Driven Ribbon UI Customization . . . 289

Advanced Problem Solving . . . 291

Further Reading . . . 300

Related Portals . . . 300

Chapter 11 Creating Cross-Version Applications

Command Bar and Ribbon User Interfaces in a Single Application . . . 304

Other Excel 2007 Development Issues . . . 319

Windows Vista Security and Folder Structure . . . 326

Chapter 12 Understanding and Using Windows API Calls Overview . . . 331

Working with the Screen ...

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