Office Developer Center: Building User Interfaces with the Information Bridge Framework

Office Developer Center: Building User Interfaces with the Information Bridge Framework: "The Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework makes programming the Office task pane not only easy but also very powerful. The Information Bridge Framework task pane provides a rich user interface that you can extend by creating your own custom regions. Information Bridge Framework Regions, which are.NET-based user controls that implement the Information Bridge Framework IRegion interface, can contain common controls of many types, execute actions within or outside the context of an Information Bridge Framework solution, and enable solution developers to program the Office task pane through the familiar Windows form-based programming model. With Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework, you can program the Office task pane with your data."

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