Developing Applications with Microsoft Office 95, Second Edition

Strategies for Designing, Developing, and Delivering Custom Business
Solutions Using Microsoft Office for Windows 95

Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word are more than just
best-of-breed applications--they're strong development tools. DEVELOPING
APPLICATIONS WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE 95 from Microsoft Press shows how to
use the powerful development features of Microsoft Office for Windows 95
to build flexible, mission-critical, industrial-strength applications that
are easier to use, maintain, and modify than those built with conventional
development tools. 

A companion CD contains all the source code files necessary to create the
sample applications in the book plus additional code samples. Microsoft
Office for Windows 95, Professional Edition, and Microsoft Visual Basic(E
4 for Windows 95, Professional Edition, are required. 

Author Christine Solomon draws on her years of experience as a consultant
to Fortune 1000 companies and financial institutions. With this book as
their guide, a broad range of developers, IS professionals, power users,
and managers will be able to deliver high-powered solutions designed to
meet just about any computing challenge. 

The Advantages of Microsoft Office for Windows 95 Development Tools

Visual Basic programming system, Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft
Access and Microsoft Excel, and WordBasic have matured into
state-of-the-art programming languages with the structure and speed
necessary to support powerful business applications. By using these tools
to develop applications with Microsoft Office for Windows 95, businesses
can save time and money, as well as 

* Speed up the development process by enhancing and extending
  existing desktop applications instead of starting from scratch
* Customize applications to meet users' specific needs and refine
  applications easily, based on user feedback
* Reduce the amount of resources required to train and support users
  by creating applications that are familiar and easy to use
* Provide users with custom, job-specific tools that allow them to
  retrieve, analyze, and publish data on their own

In Part One of DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE 95, Solomon
offers strategies for developing applications in a corporate environment
and discusses the issues involved-including the need to adhere to
graphical standards for user interfaces. She explains how to start using
tools such as ODBC and the Win32 API to help build custom business
applications and presents case studies to show how Office-based solutions
are being put to work across corporate America. 

Part Two is a comprehensive "how to" section for developing applications
with Office, complete with valuable sample applications that help readers
see custom Office-based applications in action. 

Part Three focuses on how to develop integrated applications combining
components of more than one Office product in a single custom business
application. A discussion of OLE, OLE automation, and PowerPoint as an OLE
automation server is featured. 

Part Four is the Professional's Handbook, a handy reference section for
planning training, documentation, rollout, and support. 

Appendixes list additional sources of information about developing business
applications with Microsoft Office for Windows 95 and the Visual Basic
programming system and include a concise primer on programming in Basic. A
glossary makes it easy to look up important terms, and an expanded table
of contents along with a comprehensive index helps readers quickly find
information on any topic in the book. 

Christine Solomon is the founder of the BusinessMedia Group, Inc., a
provider of consulting services and custom publishing, presentation, and
multimedia software to Fortune 1000 companies. Solomon pioneered many new
techniques for creating Office-based publishing and presentation systems
using such tools as Microsoft Excel, Word, Visual Basic, and Windows Help.
She is a speaker at dozens of seminars and conferences across North
America every year. 

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advantage of the full power of personal computing every day. 

Developing Applications with Microsoft Office 95, Second Edition
by Christine Solomon
$39.95, 640 pages, one CD
ISBN: 1-55615-898-X
Pub. Date: April 9, 1996

Microsoft Press, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
206-882-8080,  800-MSPRESS
 
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