The Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel namespace contains a set of classes that extend and support the Microsoft Office Excel object model in projects created by using Visual Studio Tools for Office. The types in this namespace can be used only in Visual Studio Tools for Office projects. For more information about these projects, see Visual Studio Tools for Office Project Templates Overview.
The Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel namespace includes the following classes:
The Workbook, Worksheet, and ChartSheet host item classes. For information about host items, see Host Items and Host Controls Overview and Excel Host Items.
Host control classes, including Chart, ListObject, NamedRange, and XmlMappedRange. For information about host controls, see Host Items and Host Controls Overview.
Classes that implement smart tag functionality in Excel, including Action and SmartTag.
Various helper classes, such as event argument and event handler classes for events in the Excel host items and host controls.