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Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel, VBA, and .NET (2nd Edition)
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $59.99
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
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“As Excel applications become more complex and the Windows development platform more powerful, Excel developers need books like this to help them evolve their solutions to the next level of sophistication. Professional Excel Development is a book for developers who want to build powerful, state-of-the-art Excel applications using the latest Microsoft technologies.”
–Gabhan Berry, Program Manager, Excel Programmability, Microsoft
“The first edition of Professional Excel Development is my most-consulted and most-recommended book on Office development. The second edition expands both the depth and range. It shines because it takes every issue one step further than you expect. The book relies on the authors’ current, real-world experience to cover not only how a feature works, but also the practical implications of using it in professional work.”
–Shauna Kelly, Director, Thendara Green
“This book illustrates techniques that will result in well-designed, robust, and maintainable Excel-based applications. The authors’ advice comes from decades of solid experience of designing and building applications. The practicality of the methods is well illustrated by the example timesheet application that is developed step-by-step through the book. Every serious Excel developer should read this and learn from it. I did.”
–Bill Manville, Application Developer, Bill Manville Associates
The Start-to-Finish Guide to Building State-of-the-Art Solutions with Excel 2007
In this book, four world-class Microsoft® Excel developers offer start-to-finish guidance for building powerful, robust, and secure applications with Excel. The authors—three of whom have been honored by Microsoft as Excel Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs)—show how to consistently make the right design decisions and make the most of Excel’s most powerful new features. Using their techniques,you can reduce development costs, time to market, and hassle—and build more effective, successful solutions.
Fully updated for Excel 2007, this book starts where other books on Excel programming leave off. Through a hands-on case study project, you’ll discover best practices for planning, architecting, and building Excel applications that are robust, secure, easy to maintain, and highly usable. If you’re a working developer, no other book on Excel programming offers you this much depth, insight, or value.
• Design worksheets that will be more useful and reliable
• Leverage built-in and application-specific add-ins
• Construct applications that behave like independent Windows programs
• Make the most of the new Ribbon user interface
• Create cross-version applications that work with legacy versions of Excel
• Utilize XML within Excel applications
• Understand and use Windows API calls
• Master VBA error handling, debugging, and performance optimization
• Develop applications based on data stored in Access, SQL Server, and other databases
• Build powerful visualization solutions with Excel charting engine
• Learn how to work with VB.NET and leverage its IDE
• Automate Microsoft Excel with VB.NET
• Create managed COM add-ins for Microsoft Excel with VB.NET
• Develop Excel solutions with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
• Integrate Excel with Web Services
• Deploy applications more securely and efficiently
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-05-19
Summary: "Chapter 3 is worth the entire book for beginning VBA'ers"
I teach Excel and am a VBA developer. I laughed as I read chapter 3, titled "General Application Development Best Practices", because I found myself thinking, wow, if I had read this book 15 years ago I could have saved myself tons of grief! It is one of the BEST summaries of "good vba practices" that I've ever seen. For beginning developers, reading chapter 3 alone is worth the cost of the book. After developing for 15 years, I follow almost all of the practices that were covered in that chapter - and can't agree more with the importance of them. I haven't finished going through this book yet but my enthusiasm for the book wouldn't be diminished even if I hated the rest of it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-25
Summary: "The Ultimate Power-User Book"
Every once in a while a technical book comes along which strikes the perfect balance between "technical detail", "practical application", and "vision". I am, like many people who buy self-help style technical books (as opposed to full out college textbooks), a self declared power-user. Power users are folks who need to get stuff down; not much time for parsing minute details and theoretical concepts. We look for ways to make our day-to-day business tasks more automated. If you're self employed like me, you're very business existence depends on automation.
This book is special for 3 reasons:
1) Practicality of advanced topics:
As a power-user, when was the last time you found yourself seriously looking at c programming, ADO, and SQL? The authors give us real life uses for these sorts of things, in a very focused manner. You walk away with an excellent understanding of why and when to use these things (notice I didn't say thorough understanding. The authors wisely admit that's someone else job, and point you in the right direction), based on what you're trying to accomplish.
2) Relevance of good programming practices:
Most books on programming teach "good programming practice" as if you are going to be working in an enterprise environment, with a team of engineers and professors. That's fine but in reality power-users work under deadlines and completely alone. No one cares how well you comment your code. As long as the thing works, when you want it too, then you've programmed enough. The authors explain a concept called "Interfacing" in a way that makes "good programming" a very practical time investment. I know "Interfacing" is not a new concept (as none of the topics in this book are). Its all in how the authors connect the dots. The relationship of concepts is far more important than the concept itself.
3) You want to know more:
Usually that's a bad thing, but not in this case because you know why. 90% of technical authors write some form of a dictionary, sprinkled with examples. But the end goal of a program is automation (or at least it should be), whether its iTunes or VBA. Take a repetitious task and automate it. Power-users don't have the luxury of slogging through a dictionary. If I spend time learning an advanced technical topic, there must be clear, reasonably obtainable objectives. The authors accomplish this by a lot. This is a tech book that really sheds light on the usefulness of all those seemingly unuseful-to-you type topics that have spawned so many 1300 page books.
If you've hung with me this far, you might have noticed I don't talk about Excel. That's because this book really isn't about Excel. Excel acts mostly as a cloths-line, linking various topics, methods, and recommendations. The authors tell us at the beginning, Excel is an excellent platform for fast application development and prototyping. THAT's really what the book is about.
It's too bad books aren't written this way more often. Hope this review was helpful
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-01-03
Summary: "A Real Time Saver"
I purchased this book when started a project that involved using Excel as the platform for an application. I wanted a reference of best practices as a template for the development. I was able to adapt the PETRAS source code for my project and it saved me weeks of programming. It has convinced me of the viability of Excel for custom applictions and it has advanced my knowledge of class modules, interfaces, events, and encapsulation that will be helpful as I get deeper into applying .NET technologies. The text and examples for the standard use of defined names, generic command bar module, user interface classes, centralized error handling, disconnected recordsets, etc. have addressed most issues that have arisen. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-12-02
Summary: "Technical Book on Excel Development"
The book targets professional developers and definitely is not a beginner's book. It has a high technical level. The book assumes that you have a firm grasp of Excel and experience writing VBA. At over a thousand pages this is not really a book to read cover to cover. It is an excellent reference manual. There is good separation between the chapters. So you don't need to read the previous chapter to understand the present chapter.
This book doesn't waste time covering beginning areas that a professional developer should know. The book spends almost all the time discussing intermediate and advanced topics. There are plenty of code examples in the book that helps understand the concepts being presented.
The chapters covering best practices are good. It is interesting to hear professionals share their knowledge and expertise on what they consider the best way to do something. Don't have to always agree or implement their concepts, but to get professional points of view over a subject, is helpful. This is an excellent book to have on a bookshelf.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-11-25
Summary: "Every bit as good as they're saying it is"
If you've read pretty much every book on VBA Excel development and are looking for the next step, this book could be what you're looking for.
It covers topics which I haven't seen dealt with properly elsewhere, such as how to get into .NET development for Excel (and why that more or may not be a good idea for your app, and where you'd want to use VBA or VB6 instead).
The chapters on writing a "dictator app" are my favourites. They explain how a developer can completely take over the Excel interface, rewriting ribbons, changing the activity of key presses (like ctrl-C) and replacing them with whatever you like, and other things, resulting in an app which can look like it isn't even Excel.
This wouldn't be the first Excel development book to start with if you are new, but if you are after some of the more advanced and hard to find information about the subject, this has plenty.