Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition Tools Key Features

Microsoft Office is the world's most popular office suite, and as developers everywhere have discovered, it's also a powerful development platform with an equally strong development environment. Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition is designed specifically for professional developers, which means it contains everything you need to create, manage, and distribute powerful solutions quickly. You get not only the applications included in Microsoft Office 97 Professional Edition but also additional tools for faster, more efficient development and distribution: royalty-free Microsoft Access run time, printed developer documentation, Microsoft Access and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe integration tools, Setup Wizard, Microsoft Replication Manager, Microsoft ActiveX controls, and much more. 

Microsoft Office 97 exposes more than 500 programmable objects so that you can quickly customize solutions for the needs of your users. It's much faster than starting from scratch and requires less user support from you. Because users are already familiar with Office, and all Office features are programmable, you can develop a custom solution that works just like Office. You can even provide custom setup routines and program the Office Assistant, menus—everything. 

Just as you provide flexible solutions that are familiar to users, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications enables you to work in a familiar environment, too. Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications is the most widely used desktop development environment in the world, and you can use it with all Microsoft Office applications—Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, and now Microsoft Word and the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation graphics program—as well as with many third-party applications. 

Your custom solutions can be connected with all your current systems—and the rest of the world. Microsoft Access existing server-side data with ODBCDirect. Use e-mail and scheduling capabilities with Microsoft Exchange and the Microsoft Outlook desktop information manager. Create solutions with powerful Internet and intranet features. 

If your users need familiar solutions, there's nothing better than Microsoft Office 97. And because you need to develop these solutions quickly, there's no match for Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition.