This training kit is an offline complement to the Office Learning Center and provides links to the videos but the hands-on labs (HOLs), source code and presentations will be conveniently available on the local machine. The possibilities and scenarios that are now available with Office 2010 and Office coupled with SharePoint 2010 are very exciting.

Each of the HOLs in the training kit have a number of exercises to incrementally present the concepts and help the developer build their skills. The labs included in the training kit are:

• Getting Started with Office 2010 Development

• Office 2010 UI Customizations

• Client Workflow

• Security and Deployment

• Open XML

• InfoPath and Forms Services

• Business Connectivity Services

• Office 2010 Service Applications

• Developing BI Applications

There will be more to come, so stay tuned to the Office Learning Center on Channel 9. And don’t forget to check for new resources coming online at the Office Developer Center on MSDN. Lastly, be sure to check out the SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Kit as well on the Channel 9 SharePoint Learning Center.

Download Office 2010 Developer Training Kit

To get start with Excel programming you first need to add Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel reference in your project. Instead of writing the simple code for reading Excel file i have created one class for reading excel file and it also help you read workbook and worksheets. you can directly use this class in your project to read excel file.

Imports OfficeExcel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Namespace MyExcel

    Public Class ExcelRead
        Dim _xlApp As OfficeExcel.Application
        Dim _xlWorkBook As OfficeExcel.Workbook
        Dim _xlWorkSheet As OfficeExcel.Worksheet
        Dim _XlFilePath As String
#Region "Constructor"
        Public Sub New(ByVal filepath As String)
            _XlFilePath = filepath
            OpenExel(_XlFilePath)
        End Sub
#End Region

#Region "Protected Method"
        Protected Sub OpenExel(ByVal fileName As String)
            _xlApp = New OfficeExcel.ApplicationClass
            _xlWorkBook = _xlApp.Workbooks.Open(fileName)
        End Sub
#End Region

#Region "Public Functions"
        Public Function GetWorkSheet(ByVal sheetname As String) As OfficeExcel.Worksheet
            For Each xlsheet As OfficeExcel.Worksheet In Me.XLWorkBook.Sheets
                If xlsheet.Name = sheetname Then
                    _xlWorkSheet = xlsheet
                    Return _xlWorkSheet
                End If
            Next
            Return _xlWorkSheet
        End Function
        Public Function getExcelWorkBookNames() As List(Of String)
            Dim workBookNames As New List(Of String)
            For Each wb As OfficeExcel.Worksheet In Me._xlApp.Worksheets
                workBookNames.Add(wb.Name)
            Next
            Return workBookNames
        End Function
        Public Function XLFilePath() As String
            Return _XlFilePath
        End Function
        Public Sub closeXL()
            releaseObject(Me._xlApp)
            releaseObject(Me._xlWorkBook)
            releaseObject(Me._xlWorkSheet)
        End Sub
#End Region

#Region "Read Only Property"
        Public ReadOnly Property XlApplication() As OfficeExcel.Application
            Get
                Return _xlApp
            End Get
        End Property
        Public ReadOnly Property XLWorkBook() As OfficeExcel.Workbook
            Get
                Return _xlWorkBook
            End Get
        End Property
        Public ReadOnly Property XLWorkSheet() As OfficeExcel.Worksheet
            Get
                Return _xlWorkSheet
            End Get
        End Property
#End Region

#Region "Private Functions"
        Private Sub releaseObject(ByVal obj As Object)
            Try
                System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(obj)
                obj = Nothing
            Catch ex As Exception
                obj = Nothing
            Finally
                GC.Collect()

            End Try
        End Sub
#End Region
    End Class

End Namespace

My next post use the same class that today we created to learn how to Format excel cells and draw charts.