Microsoft has been refining Office as a development platform for many years, and Microsoft Office 2000 Developer (MOD) is a culmination of the company's efforts. If you want to write code with Office 2000 as your target platform, MOD provides all the tools you need: COM AddInDesigners, data-bound controls, the Package and Deployment Wizard, Visual SourceSafe (VSS) integration with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and the Code Librarian. Table 1, page 122, lists MOD's significant enhancements.

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