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

Posted: Nov/18/2003 By: pankaj Points:15 Category: .NET - .NET Framework Views:67 Vote Up (0) Vote Down (0)

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 KellyMSDN Magazine December 2003

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