Microsoft .NET Development for Microsoft Office (Office/Progmng/Net)

Rating:
Summary: Comprehensive Coverage
Review: 5 stars considering the first reviewer only gave it 1. Andrew's book is great, it provides complete coverage of all of the different techniques to work with Office and .NET.

All of the examples that I tried worked fine; granted I didn't do every single one.

As for "real programming" examples... I don't know what you mean. Usually it's hard for an author to know what everyone needs, but I think Andrew's examples were good.

Thanks for putting all of this information together in one place. Yes, I'm sure most of it can be found on MSDN or Google, but if $50 saves me a day or two of searching the I'll take it.

John

Rating:
Summary: Overview but too many small errors
Review: I looked for an introduction to the basics of Office automation and bought this book. Every example code I tried was incorrect and the examples are just all trivial. Samples from the MSDN was just as good as this book.

If you only need a rough overview what technologies are out there, this book is OK. But for any real programming it is not very useful.