Beyond Macros: Create Word and Excel Smart Documents with C++ and XML

[C++ Programming]

End Google Ads 201810 - BS.net 01 --> One of the coolest new parts of Office 2003 is a programmability feature called Smart Documents, which allows developers to augment Word and Excel documents with programmable content and behavior. Typically, examples illustrating Office programmability use Visual Basic or Visual Basic .NET. In this article, the author develops a Smart Document for Excel using C++. He describes the new ISmartDocument interface and shows how to use it to manage a simple task list such as an Excel spreadsheet.

Mike Kelly

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