Using data binding effectively requires many objects to work well together: controls, datasets, data tables, binding sources, binding contexts, binding managers, and so on. This chapter, and indeed, this book, by no means descries all the data binding tools at your disposal. Fortunately, the designer generates many of the objects that you need and wires them up to each other sensibly. Still, having an understanding of what is happening behind the scenes helps considerably when designing data-driven applications.
The next chapter covers some more techniques for building data-driven applicationsin particular, how to programmatically manipulate the data island without starting Word or Excel.
Part One. An Introduction to VSTO
An Introduction to Office Programming
Introduction to Office Solutions
Part Two. Office Programming in .NET
Programming Excel
Working with Excel Events
Working with Excel Objects
Programming Word
Working with Word Events
Working with Word Objects
Programming Outlook
Working with Outlook Events
Working with Outlook Objects
Introduction to InfoPath
Part Three. Office Programming in VSTO
The VSTO Programming Model
Using Windows Forms in VSTO
Working with Actions Pane
Working with Smart Tags in VSTO
VSTO Data Programming
Server Data Scenarios
.NET Code Security
Deployment
Part Four. Advanced Office Programming
Working with XML in Excel
Working with XML in Word
Developing COM Add-Ins for Word and Excel
Creating Outlook Add-Ins with VSTO