Professional Excel Development - The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel and VBA (Paperback, New)

Finally, there's a book that treats Excel as the powerful development platform it really is, and covers every facet of developing commercial-quality Excel applications.

This is not a book for beginners. Writing for professional developers and true Excel experts, the authors share insider's knowledge they've acquired building Excel applications for many of the world's largest companies--including Microsoft. Professional Excel Development demonstrates how to get the utmost from Excel, addressing everything from application architectures through worksheet and userform design, charting, debugging, error handling and optimizing performance. Along the way, the authors offer best practices for every type of Excel development, from building add-ins through interacting with XML Web services. Coverage includes

Building add-ins to provide new Excel functions

Designing effective worksheets, userforms and other user interface elements

Leveraging Excel's powerful data analysis features

Creating sophisticated custom charts

Handling errors, debugging applications and optimizing performance

Using class modules and interfaces to create custom objects

Understanding Windows API calls: when to use them, and how to modify them

Adding worksheet functions with

C-based XLLs

Programming with databases

Controlling external applications from Excel

Integrating with Visual Basic 6, VB.NET and Visual Studio Tools for Office

Using XML to import and export data and communicate with Web services

Providing help, securing, packaging and distributing

The accompanying CD-ROM contains the book's sample timesheet application at every stage of construction, with detailed code comments. Italso includes many examples of the concepts introduced in each chapter and a collection of the authors' Excel development utilities.
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