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Common Tasks in Office Programming

Visual Studio 2012

This topic is designed to help you find the answers to the following categories of common questions about programming Office solutions by using Visual Studio.

Setup and general tasks.
User interface customization tasks.
Excel automation tasks.
Word automation tasks.
Data tasks.
Server-side document management tasks.
Security tasks.
Deployment tasks.

Setup and General Tasks

User Interface Customization Tasks

Controls on Documents and Worksheets

Task Panes in Document-Level Customizations

How to: Add an Actions Pane to Word Documents or Excel Workbooks .

Task Panes in Application-Level Add-Ins

How to: Add a Custom Task Pane to an Application .

Ribbon Customizations

Outlook Form Regions

Custom Menus

How to: Add Commands to Shortcut Menus .

Excel Automation Tasks

Word Automation Tasks

Data Tasks

Data-bound Controls

Cached Data in Document-Level Solutions

Custom XML Data

Server-side Document Management Tasks

Security Tasks

How to: Sign Office Solutions .

Deployment Tasks

Concepts

Features Available by Office Application and Project Type

Other Resources

Getting Started (Office Development in Visual Studio)

Office Development Samples and Walkthroughs

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