Bring Your Documents To Life With Data Binding In Visual Studio Tools For Office

(Eric Carter and Eric Lippert) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System provides a powerful new toolset for Office development within the Visual Studio environment. One of the most important new features of Visual Studio Tools for Office is the ability to create documents that are data bound to databases, Web services, or objects. Elements of an Excel workbook (called host controls in Visual Studio Tools for Office), such as a range or a list object or a bookmark in a Microsoft Word document, can be data bound using the same tools and syntax used when creating Windows Forms-based applications. Data-bound Windows Forms controls can also be added to a workbook or document using Visual Studio Tools for Office.