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This was taken from "The Underground Guide to Office, OLE 2, and VBA". This material has been updated for Office 95.
The Microsoft Office Developer’s Kit is a nifty resource. The most current version is called the Microsoft Office for Windows 95 Developer’s Kit (we’ll refer to this as "ODK95"), but is not available as a stand-alone product (more on this in a moment). The original version is called the Microsoft Office Developer’s Kit, version 1.0 (we’ll refer to this as "ODK1.0"), and it is available as a stand-alone product. Let’s talk about the ODK1.0 first.
The ODK1.0 is comprised of a book for designing and programming integrated solutions, the Object Model Reference Chart, and a CD-ROM. On the CD you’ll find the PJ4CONST.BAS and XLCONST.BAS Visual Basic 3 files that list all the constant declarations in Project and Excel; developer’s kits for Excel, Word, and Mail; Microsoft Electronic Forms Designer; and much more. You don’t get the hard copy components (the book and the Reference Chart), but their components are on the CD. The part number for the ODK1.0 is 203-052-002; call Microsoft Sales at 800-426-9400 and last we heard it was priced at about 100 smackers.
Ah, but there are other ways to lay your mitts on the ODK1.0. First, if you have Visual Basic 3 Professional the ODK1.0 comes with it! If you have an older version of VB3-Pro that did not come with the ODK1.0, just call the 800 number in the preceding paragraph and you can get the ODK for about $50. And if you subscribe (or subscribed) to MSDN, and have some pre-Windows 95 MSDN CDs floating around, the ODK1.0 is there as well.
Now for information about the ODK95. If your MSDN subscription is current up through the release date of Windows 95, you should have the ODK95 on your CD. Look under Product Documentation for the book entitled (not surprisingly) "Office for Windows 95 Developer’s Kit." On the CD itself look at the folder \Msdnsmpl\Prod\Odk and its children. Although the ODK95 doesn’t exist as a stand-alone product, if you’re interested there is another umbrella product called the Microsoft Solutions Development Kit that includes the ODK95; a development kit for BackOffice; Win32 development information; reams of sample code, utilities, etc. The Microsoft Solutions Development Kit’s part number is 262-254-020 (that’s the p/n according to the Microsoft technician we spoke to, but the p/n on the CD is 262-254-002) and can only be purchased directly from Microsoft at 800-360-7561 ($99.95 plus applicable tax and s&h). Alternately, you get this kit automatically if you’re an MSDN Professional Subscriber (formerly Level 2) or higher.
Finally, if you’ve got Visual Basic 4 Professional or higher, a mini-MSDN comes with it, so look at your VB4-Pro CD for that MSDN teaser.
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