Thank you for your pointer Kaak. I have been to some of the VS2005 sessions
over the last year or so and have seen some of this, but I was having
trouble finding the right places on MSDN to get started. Once you get to the
starting point things become a lot easier.

From what I can see though this all still ends up hosted within excel,
rather than the other way around where an excel worksheet acts like a
control on a Windows form. Have you any idea of whether this is possible or
are we forced to go down the Excel sheet & Action Pane within Excel style of
approach?

Tom

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> Tom
>
> I you can write .Net code behind excel with the new visual studio 2005
> and the visual studio tools for office.
> You will have the full .Net enviroment and you can control excel even
> better
> than from excel.
> You will have more events etc. etc.
> Further more you can use the action pane for your own self made
> controls.
>
> Visual studio 2005 is now a final beta, so it new but if you need extra
> info let me know.
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> Kaak
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