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Excel Add-in Development in C/C++: Applications in Finance (The Wiley Finance Series) [Kindle Edition]

Steve Dalton (Author)

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"Programming Excel add–ins using the C API can be complex and difficult. Steve has done a masterful job of demystifying the process. After reading this book you′ll be creating XLLs for all purposes with complete confidence. Highly recommended."––Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP, President, Application Professionals

"This book is for anyone who wants to do any application development in Excel. Even for an old hand at Excel development such as myself, a brief skim through reveals valuable nuggets of information. Delving deeper into the text, richer veins are easily found. This book is destined to become an essential reference on Excel development."––Dr. Les Clewlow, Principal, Lacima Group Ltd.

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Excel is the industry standard for financial modelling, providing a number of ways for users to extend the functionality of their own add-ins, including VB. C/C++. Excel Add-in Development in C/C++ - Applications for Finance is a how-to guide and reference book for the creation of high performance add-ins for Excel in C and C++ for users in the finance industry. Author Steve Dalton explains how to apply Excel add-ins to financial applications with many examples given throughout the book. It covers the relative strengths and weaknesses of developing add-ins for Excel in VB versus C/C++.

"Programming Excel add-ins using the C API can be complex and difficult. Steve has done a masterful job of demystifying the process. After reading this book you'll be creating XLLs for all purposes with complete confidence. Highly recommended."
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP, President, Application Professionals

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 4267 KB
Print Length: 422 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (15 Dec 2004)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B000PY4K7U
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Detailed and practical 5 Jan 2007

By J. A. Johnson

Format:Hardcover

I recommend this book to anyone needing to extend Excel and for whom VBA is insufficient. The subject is comprehensively covered and properly explained so that you can implement code for yourself in confidence, knowing that all aspects and issues are covered.

I have been very pleased to find that extending Excel using the C API is very practical, but that is largely only because this book draws together all information needed - it's difficult and time-consuming to find all of this information elsewhere.

The reason I didn't award 5 stars is that the code examples on the CD don't compile without errors (at least in VS 8).

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful

Making Excell do what it Doesn't Want to Do 24 Feb 2005

By John Matlock - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Hardcover

This book is written for people who have the need to make Excel do things it doesn't really want to do, or do them faster, more cleanly, more flexibly. It presumes a reasonable grasp of basic software development concepts. A solid C and/or C++ foundation skill, a good working knowledge of Excel, and at least some experience with VBA is needed.

The basic applications given in the book center around financial modelling but this represents a rather small part of the book. The concepts and techniques described in most of the book are about working to enhance and extend Excell functionality. These techniques would be aplicable to quite a number of application areas even including real time data capture and analysis.

Building add-ins for Excel is an area that has not been covered very well in the literature. This book is a coherent explanation of the relevant technoloby, what steps to follow, what pitfalls to avoid, and a good reference guide.

The CD-ROM includes several thousand lines of example code, numerous workbooks, and a number of complete example projects.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

ONLY book detailed on the Excel C API 2 Feb 2006

By ET - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Hardcover

This is the ONLY book that is written exclusively for the Excel C API. It is well written but the reader needs to have basic C knowledge first. Development of XLLs in C++ is a topic not well documented in litertaure except for the MSDN website which has an archived section on the Excel 97 SDK. In any case, the CD code that comes with the book helps a lot. For a quick start to build your own programs you may use some interface classes and headers from the CD.

Several quants purchase a separate software XLL+ for developing the Excel XLLs, but even the software is a series of headers and cpp files made easy. And when it comes to more complicated development like dialog or menus, the book is a useful reference.

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Very useful 9 Jun 2005

By bookreader99 - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Hardcover

It may be true that a lot, defintely not all, of the information can be found in various places on the internet, but the sources are all over the place, incomplete and often refer to older technologies. The book contains much more than just the bland facts from various sources. For a start, the fact that all of this information is in one reference is extremely valuable. (I bought hardcopy, which I much prefer for reference and reading). The book is full of practical help and notes so that you don't have to find out the hard way where the undocumented problems are. There are worked sections on name handling and multi-threading. There are well-presented discussions about memory management, data types and handling large data structures. I work in finance but still think that I would have found this book useful even if I was working in another industry where high-speed number crunching is important. I was able to write xll add-ins after a weekend when it would have taken perhaps months otherwise.

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