VSTO for dummies

340 Pages·2011·7.07 MB·English

by  Bill Sempf, Peter Jausovec

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VSTO
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VSTO
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DUMmIES
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by Bill Sempf and Peter Jausovec
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VSTO For Dummies®
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About the Authors
Bill Sempf: Bill started playing with computers in 1979 and hasn’t looked
back. In 1985, he was helping his father (also Bill) manage Apple IIe systems
at the local library. Since then, Bill has built applications for the likes of
Lucent Technologies, Bank One, Nationwide Insurance, and Sears, Roebuck
and Co. He is the author of C# 2010 All-in-One For Dummies and Visual Basic
2008 For Dummies; a coauthor of Effective Visual Studio.NET, Professional
ASP.NET Web Services and Professional VB.NET; a frequent contributor
to MSDN, Builder.com, Hardcore Web Services, Cloud Computing Journal,
Inside Web Development Journal and Intranet Journal; and an invited speaker
for the ACM and IEEE, nPlus1, DevEssentials, the International XML Web
Services Expo, and the Association of Information Technology Professionals.
Bill is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in
Business Administration, Microsoft Certifi ed Professional, Certifi ed Internet
Business Strategist and Certifi ed Internet Webmaster. His company is
Products Of Innovative New Technology (usually called POINT), and you can
reach Bill at [email protected].
Peter Jausovec: Peter has worked with Visual Studio Tools for Offi ce (VSTO)
since the fi rst version. He is currently employed at Microsoft where he
helped test and design the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint developer
tools, focusing especially on SharePoint Workfl ows.
Dedication
From Bill: To my wife Gabrielle and my son Adam. They put up with many a
movie date with Daddy illuminated by his laptop screen.
From Peter: To my wife Nives.
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Authors’ Acknowledgments
This book has a long story behind it, which Bill will be glad to tell for the
price of a beer at any of the community events he frequents. That story
demands an acknowledgement of two particular groups — the developer
community and Wiley.
When Bill came up with this title concept way back in 2006, he leaned heavily
on the developer community for ideas and structure. This leaning turned into
a true partnership, when Peter joined the fray as a co-author in 2008.
Then just a student, Peter would end up becoming a force in the develop-
ment of this book, crafting the message presented and writing half the text.
He then worked to update the older chapters to appropriately encompass
VSTO 4.0 after he joined Microsoft’s VSTO development team. His work, and
the community that supports the creation of vital technologists like him,
deserve everyone’s recognition, support, and participation.
In that same vein, Eric Carter’s early support from the technical perspective
was very important to the book. Maarten van Stam’s expertise in tech review
has been fantastic, too. Both of those gentlemen have a deep and broad
understanding of the technical issues of VSTO, and their help fi rming up the
ideas presented was truly a cornerstone of the book.
Wiley, the company that publishes the For Dummies series, deserves a hat tip
for sticking with this book. Many people, especially Katie Feltman and Kelly
Ewing, allowed this to title draw out long beyond the timeline for most books
while we waited for the technology to settle. We believe it was worth the wait
and hope you do, too!
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