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Excel 2003 Programming: A Developer's Notebook

By Jeff Webb
August 2004
Pages: 312
Series: Developer's Notebooks
ISBN 10: 0-596-00767-1 | ISBN 13: 9780596007676

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Light on theory and long on practical application, this guide takes you directly to Excel 2003's new features using a series of hands-on projects. Learn to work with lists and XML data, secure Excel applications, use Visual Studio Tools for Office, consume Web Services, and collect data with Infopath. If you've been curious about Excel 2003, but haven't known where to start, this book is the solution.
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On the surface, it doesn't appear as if much in Excel 2003 has changed. There are a handful of new objects and the user interface is largely the same. But beyond a superficial glance, you'll see that there are fundamental shifts implied by the new features: Lists, XML, web services, .NET, and InfoPath build a framework for entirely new ways to exchange data with Excel. In fact, that's much of what Excel 2003 is all about--solving problems that deal with teamwork-- collecting and sharing data, programming across applications, and maintaining security. The latest in our Developer's Notebook series, this guide introduces intermediate to advanced Excel VBA programmers to the newest programming features of Excel 2003,--focusing just on what's new--so you can get up to speed quickly. Light on theory and long on practical application, the book takes you directly to the topics you'll want to master through a series of hands-on projects. With dozens of practical labs, you'll be able to decide for yourself which new aspects of Excel will be useful or not in your own work. And best of all, you won't have to buy an expensive revision of a legacy Excel programming tutorial to learn about the new features--if they're covered there at all. Excel 2003 Programming: A Developer's Notebook shows you how to work with lists and XML data, secure Excel applications, use Visual Studio Tools for Office, consume Web Services, and collect data with Infopath. Each chapter is organized into a collection of labs, each of which addresses a specific programming problem. You can follow along to complete the lab on your own, or jump ahead and use the samples the author has built for you. The new Developer's Notebooks series from O'Reilly covers important new tools for software developers. Emphasizing example over explanation and practice over theory, they focus on learning by doing--you'll get the goods straight from the masters, in an informal and code-intensive style that suits developers. If you've been curious about Excel 2003, but haven't known where to start, this no-fluff, lab-style guide is the solution.

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First Edition: August 2004
Series: Developer's Notebooks
ISBN: 0-596-00767-1
Pages: 312

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"Developers who want to keep everything within the Microsoft system, or who are required to do so, should find this Developer's Notebook invaluable...The presentation of this title has been exceptionally well executed; information is well laid out, si concise without being too terse, and comes straight to the point. There is a minimum of discussion--the focus is on how things are done--and plenty of code. The change to XML has taken Excel to a new, web-oriented level and the author shows how developers can exploit that connection."
--Major Keary, Book News, 2005:1

"Strengths: An O'Reilly book. A Developer's Book. A Problem-Solving Book.
Weaknesses: None Found.
Excel 2003 Programming: A Developer's Notebook by Jeff Webb looks at Excel from the view of someone who appreciates teamwork and Visual Basic with an eye towards the future of XML. It is intended to be a problem-solving book for programmers...If you need to code in Excel or make it jump through hoops, this is a great place to learn -- in the O'Reilly Developer's Notebook Laboratory Environment."
--Robert Pritchett, MacCompanion, January 2005 (3:1)

"This isn't a 'start to finish' text, it's a 'how to' book written by an author who really knows 'how to'... Jeff Webb's new book delivers exactly what it promises at an attractive price with no frills. Web page support is up to O'Reilly's excellent standards too! It may not be what everyone is looking for, but if you want a really forward-looking and compact read into the future of programming with Microsoft technologies--Buy this book! "
--Dan Mabbutt, About.com, Visual Basic, July 2005

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