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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
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Book for no VBA beginners and about professional applications.
A lot of explanations to help us in high level development.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5
This book of advanced Excel development was recommended to me by a co-worker whose project I inherited that used the concepts in the book based on the “Petras Template” example. It’s classy and polished VBA programming and sure, you can brag about the concepts to the techies interviewing you during your next job hunt.
But, be careful.
The book introduces us to the concept of add-ins and templates. So, there you are showing off your project to your manager or users. But, what do they click on? The add-in or the template? What are all those true/false cells over there? How can the user save the workbook? What heppens if you forget to hide the columns that use cell logic. Hmmm. These questions and others will be asked of your typically non-technical users who have NO idea what goes on behind the scenes. If they open up the template and screw around with the code or re-name the add-in, you’ll have chaos.
To be fair, there’s tons of advanced concepts to learn here and no doubt you’ll benefit from them. But, remember, as a developer, your first goal is to produce a robust application. However, you may have click a couple of functions to get all tabs in your template to show. If you don’t do that, you can’t see them! Oh, and don’t forget to save your add-in.xla or all your changes won’t take effect.
Not for beginners or dummies, but for VERY careful developers!
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
Stephen and Rob are clearly masters of the art of Excel application development and have an incredible ability to explain the advanced techniques they use in a way that makes them seem easy. “Professional Excel Development” sets a new standard for Excel technical books and looks to become the standard reference book for the industry. Mastering the techniques in this book has already helped me move toward the head of the Excel development pack! I highly recommend it.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
This book is written by authors who are highly recognized as preeminent among Microsoft MVP’s and Office solution developers. They share profound professional insights, which proves that when you are truly outstanding in your field, you have nothing to fear by making others great also.
If you want only to learn the power of VBA — and VBA is tremendously powerful as a development tool — be sure you have books like Excel 2002 Excel VBA Programmer’s Reference (WROX Programmer-to-Programmer series) and John Walkenback’s Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA (John Wiley
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
This is a great book for power programmers. But be aware, this book is not for those who want to learn Excel. It’s just for those who know Excel and want to imrove their programming capabilities.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5