AutomationFactory - Information Needed

I am interested in using the AutomationFactory namespace but I cannot find any documentation on what I can use for a sepcific COM. I figure it's because I do not know what terms I should act开发者_高级运维ually be looking up. Does anyone have any resources? In particular I'm looking for information on Excel, Word and Outlook.

Thanks In Advance!

AutomationFactory is a class, not a namespace. It is specific to Silverlight version 4, an execution environment that doesn't support COM Automation by default, only if the app runs out-of-browser as a trusted app. The MSDN Library article is here, the bottom of the page has a link to a How-To page.

You should start with the MSDN topic here: Office Development

I would then be inclined to create an experimental Windows Console application and reference the relevant office COM libraries. Write code to manipulate the office COM objects with the benefit of intellisense, get some sembalence of the what the app really needs to do working.

Write a whole bunch of classes and methods which abstract the manipulations you ultimately want to perform in Silverlight from the actual mechanics of office object operations.

The port the code to Silverlight using the dynamic type, you lose all the intellisense on the COM objects of office but by this stage you've created a bunch of classes which once ported are what your real Silverlight code will use to do office operations.

The COM information is the same as what you would find in VBA so when I do internet searches i just look for information related to that.