Office-base development for new newbies
Developing add-in applications for Microsoft Office is a fascinating concept. With a minimum effort you can achieve some significant results. Between all the office products I think Outlook is the most interesting one to develop add-in for because it can be easily used for business integration. So my focus is mostly on these king of add-ins.
Andrew Whitechapel shows how LINQ, WCF and WPF can be merged to develop an office based application and I am going to add a list of additional must read articles which can help a newbies (like me) up and running in this context:
MSDN Articles:
- Developing Interfaces in Outlook 2007
- Features Available by Application and Project Type
- How to: Add a Custom Task Pane to an Application
- Walkthrough: Automating an Application from a Custom Task Pane
- Walkthrough: Synchronizing a Custom Task Pane with a Ribbon Button
- Walkthrough: Displaying Custom Task Panes with E-Mail Messages in Outlook
- How to: Display Custom Task Panes with E-Mail Messages in Outlook
- How to: Add Custom Icons to Toolbar and Menu Items
A series of technical articles in MSDN: Office Development with Visual Studio Articles Homepage
A useful project on CodeProject: How to programmatically create an Outlook home folder page in the Outlook Today style
