.Net & Office Integration

[BukHix]

I am curious about whether any of you are doing any .Net programming along with Office development. I have recently been experimenting with integration and have seen a lot of potential for a "best of both worlds" environment.

For those of you who have been down this road already do you have any advice or warnings for someone just getting started?

[XL-Dennis]

Yes, I work with VB.NET 2003 and especially with Excel 2003 :thumb

An excellent introduction You can start with is:
http://www.visualbasicforum.com/showthread.php?t=160459

by Mike_R who also is a member here :)

Kind regards,
Dennis

[BukHix]

Thanks for the reply!

I used to work with Access exclusively but for the last year and a half I have been working on a project using VB.Net, Crystal Reports and SQL Server.

Once I got used to .Net and SQL I didn't think I would ever look back to Office again. However, recently I needed to integrate some mail functions into my application and found out how easy and potentially productive the integration can be. I was especially surprised how easy it was to program toward Outlook, an application that you don't see a lot of programming How To's for.

Thanks for the link. I am going back to it a little later when I have more time.

[XL-Dennis]

You're welcome and pls let me know if You want some help with setting up connection etc with VB.NET /ADO.NET toward SQL Server as I do that stuff as well :)

Outlook shouldn't be any problems with VB.NET

Kind regards,
Dennis