Documentation

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• Welcome to the Excel 2010 Developer Reference. Developer or API references are extended documentation sets. They usually provide application programming interface (API) documentation, sample code, and other supporting information.
  
  
• Welcome to the Excel 2010 Primary Interop Assembly Reference. Developer or API references are extended documentation sets. They usually provide application programming interface (API) documentation, sample code, and other supporting information.
  
  
• Welcome to the Microsoft Excel 2010 XLL Software Development Kit. Software development kits (SDKs) or references are extended documentation sets. They usually provide application programming interface (API) documentation, sample code, and other supporting information.
  
  
• Excel 2010 Technical Articles. Technical articles are 10-35 pages in length and provide detailed technical information and code examples. They may serve any number of purposes: getting started, providing best practices, describing a solution, discussing the use of a given object or method in depth, and so on.
  
  
• Excel 2010 Visual How Tos. Visual how-to articles are 2-15 pages in length and combine some of the best elements of blogs, video, and technical articles by providing a brief overview, a code sample, and a how-to video. You can read the overview, review the code snippet, view the video, and explore the additional resources.
  
  
• Excel 2010 Quick Notes. Book excerpts are online excerpts of published books. Each chapter often focuses on one key solution or set of tasks as well as providing you a free, in depth look at a book. Links are included for viewing the entire book online or purchasing the book.
  
  
• Excel Solutions. Visual Studio 2010 provides project templates that you can use to create document-level customizations and application-level add-ins for Microsoft Office Excel. You can use these solutions to automate Excel, extend Excel features, and customize the Excel user interface (UI).
  
  

Getting Started

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• Getting Started Developing with Office 2010
  
  
• Getting Started with VBA in Office 2010
  
  
• Excel 2010 Developer Center
  
  
• Office 2010 Developer Center
  
  
• Office on TechNet
  
  

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