开发人员的新工具
Visual Studio Tools for Office
l 提供更强大的开发环境
l XML DOM 支持扩展的 W ord 和 E xcel 对象模型
l Office XP Web Services Toolkit
l 熟悉的用户界面和更方便的安装过程
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| Visual Studio Tools for Office is an add-on that will bring the power of Visual Studio .NET 2003 to business solutions built on Microsoft Office System Word and Excel. With this package, developers using Visual Studio .NET 2003 can use VB.NET and C# to write code-behind solutions based on Word and Excel.
| With Visual Studio Tools for Office, you have full access to the XML classes in the .NET Framework. You will learn more about Visual Studio Tools for Office in another session However, you don’t have to go all the way to Managed code to get classes that let you work with XML. Microsoft XML, v5.0 is available from VBA.
| As mentioned earlier, Microsoft has released a toolkit called Office XP Web Services Toolkit 2.0. It gives the Visual Basic Editor a new menu option, Web Services Reference, which was highlighted in the Web Services Demo. This option brings up a dialog similar to the one in Visual Studio .NET 2003. You can search for a Web service by key word, business name, or URL. After the search turns up positive results, you can test a service that uses a Web page interface. When the service is added, a proxy class is created for you, making it easy to call the Web service.