After programming with the Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for some time, I feel that using these applications in your own solutions can be quite overwhelming for the first timers. So, I thought of writing this post to introduce the concepts to everyone who wants to program/use Office applications in their own [...]

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Let’s say we have created an ActiveX control using the wizard in Visual Studio 2008, and have checked the “Available in Insert Object Dialog” checkbox on the last page of the wizard as shown below: As the name suggests, this setting enables the ActiveX control to be in “Insert Object” dialog box, which is available [...]

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