“Welcome to one of the greatest collaborations you could dream of in the world of C# books—and probably far beyond!” —From the Foreword by Mads Torgersen, C# Program Manager, Microsoft Essential C# 6.0 is a well-organized, no-fluff guide to the latest versions of C# for programmers at all levels of experience. Fully updated to reflect new C# 6.0 and .NET 4.6 features and patterns, it will help you write C# code that’s simple, powerful, robust, secure, and maintainable. This book’s authors are world-class C# experts: long-time Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Mark Michaelis and Eric Lippert, formerly principal developer on Microsoft’s C# compiler team. Together, they cover the entire language, illustrating key constructs with succinct examples and offering a complete foundation for successful C# development. Essential C# 6.0 makes it easy to program with any version of C#, whether you’re creating new code or maintaining existing systems. Separate indexes for C# versions 4, 5, and 6 help you quickly find version-specific answers with accompanying visual indicators that help you identify which language innovations will work when. This edition also includes a set of best-practice C# Coding Guidelines updated to leverage C# 6.0 constructs. Coverage includes <ul>
<li>Mastering C# data types, operators, control flow, methods, and parameters</li> <li> Using C# object-oriented constructs, including classes, inheritance, interfaces, and more—all with the significantly simplified syntax of C# 6.0</li> <li>Working with well-formed value and reference types</li> <li>Implementing reliable, effective exception handling</li> <li>Reducing code complexity with generics, delegates, lambda expressions, and events (including a simplified C# 6.0 syntax for triggering events)</li> <li>Learning dynamic programming with reflection and attributes</li> <li>Querying diverse data collections using LINQ with query expressions</li> <li>Creating custom collections that operate against business objects</li> <li>Using collection interfaces and standard query operators to access .NET collections</li> <li>Understanding the Common Language Infrastructure and C# in the context of .NET 4.6</li> <li>Taking advantage of declarative programming, embedded metadata, reflection, and attributes</li> <li>Mastering multithreading and synchronization, including the new async/await paradigm</li> <li>Using P/Invoke, pointers, and direct memory manipulation to interoperate with other languages</li> <li>Understanding how C# programs relate to the underlying runtime</li> </ul> For Qualified Instructors An instructor’s guide, exercises, and a slide deck are available to support your courses.

Essential C# 6.0 (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology)

Computers & Technology

Michaelis, Mark

Lippert, Eric

Programming

Addison-Wesley Professional

Preface In 2002, the first release of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework was nearing completion. A few of us at Microsoft realized that Office programming was going to miss the .NET wave unless we did something about it. What had come before was Visual Basic for Applications VBA , a simple development environment integrated into all the Office applications. Each Office application had a rich object model that was accessed via a technology known as COM. Millions of developers identified themselves as "Office developers" and used VBA and the Office COM object models to do everything from automating repetitive tasks to creating complete business solutions that leveraged the rich features and user interface of Office. These developers realized that their users were spending their days in Office. By building solutions that ran inside of Office, they not only made their users happy, they were also able to create solutions that did more and cost less by reusing functionality already available in the Office applications. Unfortunately, because of some limitations of VBA, Office programming was starting to get a bad rap. Solutions developed in VBA by small workgroups or individuals would gain momentum and a professional developer would have to take them over and start supporting them. To a professional developer, the VBA environment felt simple and limited, and of course, it enforced a single language: Visual Basic. VBA embedded code in every customized document, which made it hard to fix bugs and update solutions because a bug would get replicated in documents across the enterprise. Security weaknesses in the VBA model led to a rash of worms and macro viruses that made enterprises turn VBA off. Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework provided a way to address all these problems. A huge opportunity existed to not only combine the richness of the new .NET Framework and developer tools with the powerful platform that Office has always provided for developers but to also solve the problems that were plaguing VBA. The result of this realization was Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO . The first version of VSTO was simple, but it accomplished the key goal of letting professional developers use the full power of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework to put code behind Excel 2003 and Word 2003 documents and templates. It let professional developers develop Office solutions in VB.NET and C#. It solved the problem of embedded code by linking a document to a .NET assembly instead of embedding it in the document. It also introduced a new security model that used .NET code-access security to prevent worms and macro viruses. The second version of VSTO, known as VSTO 2005, the version of VSTO covered by this book, is even more ambitious. It brings with it functionality never available to the Office developer before, such as data binding and data/view separation, design-time views of Excel and Word documents inside Visual Studio, rich support for Windows Forms controls in the document, the ability to create custom Office task panes, server-side programming support against Office-and that s just scratching the surface. Although the primary target of VSTO is the professional developer, this does not mean that building an Office solution with VSTO is rocket science. VSTO makes it possible to create very rich applications with just a few lines of code. This book tries to put into one place all the information you need to succeed using VSTO to program against Word 2003, Excel 2003, Outlook 2003, and InfoPath 2003. It introduces the Office object models and covers the most commonly used objects in those object models. In addition, this book will help you avoid some pitfalls that result from the COM origins of the Office object models. This book also provides an insider view of all the rich features of VSTO. We participated in the design and implementation of many of these features. We can therefore speak from the unique perspective of living and breathing VSTO for the past three years. Programming Office using VSTO is powerful and fun. We hope you enjoy using VSTO as much as we enjoyed writing about it and creating it. Eric Carter /&gt;Eric Lippert May 2005 /&gt; Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# With Excel, Word, Outlook, And Infopath

Carter, Eric

“With the application development community so focused on the Smart Client revolution, a book that covers VSTO from A to Z is both important and necessary. This book lives up to big expectations. It is thorough, has tons of example code, and covers Office programming in general terms—topics that can be foreign to the seasoned .NET developer who has focused on ASP.NET applications for years. Congratulations to Eric Lippert and Eric Carter for such a valuable work!” —Tim Huckaby, CEO, InterKnowlogy, Microsoft regional director “This book covers in a clear and concise way all of the ins and outs of programming with Visual Studio Tools for Office. Given the authors’ exhaustive experiences with this subject, you can’t get a more authoritative description of VSTO than this book!” —Paul Vick, technical lead, Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Corporation “Eric and Eric really get it. Professional programmers will love the rich power of Visual Studio and .NET, along with the ability to tap into Office programmability. This book walks you through programming Excel, Word, InfoPath, and Outlook solutions.” —Vernon W. Hui, test lead, Microsoft Corporation “This book is an in-depth, expert, and definitive guide to programming using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. It is a must-have book for anyone doing Office development.” —Siew Moi Khor, programmer/writer, Microsoft Corporation “We don’t buy technical books for light reading. We buy them as a resource for developing a solution. This book is an excellent resource for someone getting started with Smart Client development. For example, it is common to hear a comment along the lines of, ‘It is easy to manipulate the Task Pane in Office 2003 using VSTO 2005,’ but until you see something like the example at the start of Chapter 15, it is hard to put ‘easy’ into perspective. This is a thorough book that covers everything from calling Office applications from your application, to building applications that are Smart Documents. It allows the traditional Windows developer to really leverage the power of Office 2003.” —Bill Sheldon, principal engineer, InterKnowlogy, MVP “Eric Carter and Eric Lippert have been the driving force behind Office development and Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. The depth of their knowledge and understanding of VSTO and Office is evident in this book. Professional developers architecting enterprise solutions using VSTO 2005 and Office System 2003 now have a new weapon in their technical arsenal.” —Paul Stubbs, program manager, Microsoft Corporation “This book is both a learning tool and a reference book, with a richness of tables containing object model objects and their properties, methods, and events. I would recommend it to anyone considering doing Office development using the .NET framework, especially people interested in VSTO programming.” —Rufus Littlefield, software design engineer/tester, Microsoft Corporation 
 Visual Studio Tools for Office is both the first and the definitive book on VSTO 2005 programming, written by the inventors of the technology. VSTO is a set of tools that allows professional developers to use the full power of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework to put code behind Excel 2003, Word 2003, Outlook 2003, and InfoPath 2003. VSTO provides functionality never before available to the Office developer: data binding and data/view separation, design-time views of Excel and Word documents inside Visual Studio, rich support for Windows Forms controls in a document, the ability to create custom Office task panes, server-side programming support against Office, and much more. Carter and Lippert cover their subject matter with deft insight into the needs of .NET developers learning VSTO. This book <ul>
<li>Explains the architecture of Microsoft Office programming and introduces the object models</li> <li>Teaches the three basic patterns of Office solutions: Office automation executables, Office add-ins, and code behind a document</li> <li>Explores the ways of customizing Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath, and plumbs the depths of programming with their events and object models</li> <li>Introduces the VSTO programming model </li> <li>Teaches how to use Windows Forms in VSTO and how to work with the Actions Pane</li> <li>Delves into VSTO data programming and server data scenarios</li> <li>Explores .NET code security and VSTO deployment</li> </ul>
Advanced material covers working with XML in Word and Excel, developing COM add-ins for Word and Excel, and creating Outlook add-ins with VSTO. The complete code samples are available on the book’s Web page.

Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using Vb.net With Excel, Word, Outlook, And Infopath

Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook is the definitive book on VSTO 2008 programming, written by the inventors of the technology. VSTO is a set of tools that allows professional developers to use the full power of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework to program against Microsoft Office 2007. This book delivers in one place all the information you need to succeed using VSTO to program against Word 2007, Excel 2007, and Outlook 2007, and provides the necessary background to customize Visio 2007, Publisher 2007, and PowerPoint 2007. It introduces the Office 2007 object models, covers the most commonly used objects in those object models, and will help you avoid the pitfalls caused by the COM origins of the Office object models. Developers who wish to program against Office 2003 should consult Carter and Lippert’s previous book, Visual Studio Tools for Office. In VSTO 2008, you can build add-ins for all the major Office 2007 applications, build application-level custom task panes, customize the new Office Ribbon, modify Outlook’s user interface using Form Regions, and easily deploy everything you build using ClickOnce. Carter and Lippert cover their subject matter with deft insight into the needs of .NET developers learning VSTO, based on the deep knowledge that comes from the authors’ unique perspective of living and breathing VSTO for the past six years. This book <ul>
<li> Explains the architecture of Microsoft Office programming and introduces the object models </li>
<li> Covers the main ways Office applications are customized and extended </li>
<li> Explores the ways of customizing Excel, Word, and Outlook, and plumbs the depths of programming with their events and object models </li>
<li> Introduces the VSTO programming model </li>
<li> Teaches how to use Windows Forms and WPF in VSTO and how to work with the Document Actions Pane and application-level task panes </li>
<li> Delves into VSTO data programming and server data scenarios </li>
<li> Teaches ClickOnce VSTO deployment </li> </ul>
This is the one book you need to succeed in programming against Office 2007. NOTE: This is now a two volume set C# and Visual Basic .NET Code samples for download can be found here: http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321533216

Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook (Volume 1-2)

Networking & Cloud Computing

Essential C# 5.0 is a clear, concise, in-depth guide to C#, with the most detailed coverage of any book on the features new to version 5.0. It clearly presents material for beginners and experienced C# programmers alike, and provides contrasts and comparisons between C# and other common languages. C# is covered comprehensively, and each important construct is illustrated with succinct code examples. The author has organized the material for quick, easy access. Graphical "mind maps" at the beginning of each chapter show what material is covered and how each topic relates to the whole. This edition includes coverage of Windows 8 and the new Windows run time (WinRT), two of the most important new features in C# 5.0. Whether you are an experienced developer looking to learn C#, or a seasoned C# programmer interested in learning the new features of C# 5.0, this book gives you just what you need to quickly get up and running writing C# 5.0 applications.

Essential C# 5.0 (Microsoft Windows Development Series)