Chapter 19: Office Integration

Automating Office Basics

The current approach to Office automation is to use existing COM objects provided by Microsoft Office. This means that to use C# in conjunction with Microsoft Office, you must add references to the existing COM libraries:

• Microsoft Word Object Library

• Microsoft Outlook Object Library

• Microsoft Excel Object Library

• Microsoft PowerPoint Object Library

There are multiple ways to start or access Microsoft Office products, as demonstrated in this chapter.