Microsoft Office XP Developer contents

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Microsoft Office XP Developer provides advanced tools that developers can use to create and distribute custom applications.

The Office XP Developer includes the following:

Microsoft Office Professional CD-ROM

The Microsoft Office Professional CD-ROM includes the following applications:

• Microsoft Excel 2002
• Microsoft Word 2002
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
• Microsoft FrontPage 2002
• Microsoft Outlook 2002
• Microsoft Developer 2002

Office Developer Tools CD-ROM

• Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Productivity Add-ins, a set of tools designed to facilitate development in the VBA environment, including a tool for adding code comments and error handling, a string editor, and a source control add-in.
• Code Librarian and Code Librarian Viewer, a database application containing searchable code snippets for standard routines and samples. Developers can create their own code libraries and distribute read-only versions using the Code Librarian Viewer.
• Workflow Designer for Exchange Server, a visual designer used to create a workflow process with Exchange as the data store.
• Workflow Designer for SQL Server and Workflow Services for SQL Server. Workflow Designer is a visual designer used to create a workflow process with SQL Server as the data store. Workflow Services contains administrative tools for managing your workflow applications.
• A royalty-free distribution license (including the Microsoft Graph run-time application) and tools that allow you to distribute copies of your custom Microsoft Access applications to all your users, whether or not they have Access installed on their computers.
• Replication Manager, which schedules updates among replicas, determines which objects in the database are replicated, and manages multiple replica sets at one time. By using Replication Manager, you can see a visual display of all the replicas in a set.
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 (including the Visual SourceSafe Add-in for Access and the Visual SourceSafe Visual Basic Editor Add-in), which supports multideveloper application development.
• ActiveX controls that you can use to add versatility to your applications and duplicate Microsoft Windows functionality, including controls for Internet applications and controls to connect Microsoft Outlook messaging with data and other Office applications.
• The Make Add-in feature, which you can use to create an add-in directly from the Visual Basic Editor for a specific Visual Basic Editor host.
• The Packaging Wizard, which you can use to deliver database solutions and Office programmable solutions for any Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 host to disk or a network.
• The HTML Help Workshop Software Development Kit (SDK), with which you can create Help topics similar to those in Microsoft Office XP. The SDK includes the HTML Help Workshop and the run-time version to distribute to your users.
• Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). The entire MSDN library is included, as well as a special default subset of Office and Visual Basic for Applications programming commands.

Printed Documentation

• Microsoft Office XP Developer's Guide ù The Microsoft Office XP Developer's Guide is designed specifically for professional developers who are building and deploying solutions with Microsoft Office XP. This version of Microsoft Office XP helps developers improve productivity through a set of tools provided in an integrated development environment. This book was designed from the ground up to be a comprehensive and accurate guide to building custom solutions that profit from the powerful technologies available in Microsoft Office XP.