Plugin development for Excel

Question

I need to develop a plugin for excel. It should behave similar to Plugins for Eclipse. It should be available as a context sensitive menu, should have access to spreadsheet contents currently opened, the chart content etc.

I saw the the following link for developing Add-ins for Excel: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa730920(v=office.12).aspx#office2007excelXLL_DevelopingXLLs ( using C & C++ and XLL SDK).

Is this the only option to develop plugins for Excel?

Answer 1

Lots of info on Microsoft's site about creating add-ins. Some suggested reading to point you in the right direction.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms268878.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302901

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa289518(v=vs.71).aspx

even some stuff on stackoverflow Creating add-in for Excel using C#