Develop add-ins for Microsoft® Office®, smart tags and RTD servers
in Delphi with Add-in Express VCL

Add-in Express™
for Microsoft® Office and Delphi® VCL


Add-in Express for Office and VCL at first hand

IDEs

  • Delphi 5, 6, 7, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, XE, XE2
  • Turbo Delphi Win32

Applications

  • Microsoft® Excel® 2000 - 2010
  • Microsoft® Outlook® 2000 - 2010
  • Microsoft® Word 2000 - 2010
  • Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 - 2003
  • Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2000 - 2010
  • Microsoft® Access® 2000 - 2010
  • Microsoft® Project 2000 - 2010
  • Microsoft® MapPoint® 2002 - 2010
  • Microsoft® Visio® 2002 - 2010
  • Microsoft® Publisher 2003 - 2010
  • Microsoft® InfoPath® 2007, 2010
  • Microsoft® Office® 2010

Success story

Using your excellent software, I have written an add-in that presents the user with a simple toolbar within what is now a template Excel spreadsheet. I could not have done this without Add-in Express, and it has proven to be worth its weight in platinum!

James Gilliver
Sinapsis Systems Limited

Add-in Express VCL is the first visual tool for writing a COM add-in, smart tag and RTD server in Delphi. It completely supports these technologies and makes them very comfortable for programming extensions for all available Microsoft® Office versions across 2000 through Microsoft Office 2010.

Visual designers: you write functional code only

Add-in Express VCL is entirely based on the Rapid Application Development approach and empowers you to develop professional plugins for Microsoft Office with a couple of clicks. The programming model and run-time code of Add-in Express are based on Delphi VCL, and they make your add-ins, smart tags, Microsoft Excel RTD servers and user-defined functions commercial class and feature-rich.

Add-in Express generates COM-based projects that contain all necessary functionality for Microsoft Office add-ins or smart tags and centralize all technology-specific components through visual designers and RAD modules. More about Office Ribbon designer.

Add-in Express for Office and VCL - True RAD for writing Office COM add-ins in Delphi

Add-in Express for VCL features and benefits

Microsoft Office extensibility

Based on the Microsoft Office extensibility, Add-in Express provides you with a component set for creating any types of Microsoft Office plug-ins. It wraps all necessary technologies to interact with all Microsoft Office applications: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft InfoPath, etc. Learn more...

Version-neutrality - from Microsoft Office 2000 to 2010

Due to its version-neutral core, Add-in Express for Delphi transparently supports all available Microsoft Office versions, from Microsoft Office 2000 to Microsoft Office 2010, and works with the same perfection on all Microsoft Office editions, from Student to Ultimate. Learn more...

The best platform for Microsoft Office development

The bundle of Delphi and Add-in Express gives you the best platform for Microsoft Office development. Delphi produces Win32 and Win64 code that makes your add-ins compact, fast and easily deployable; Add-in Express offers you a powerful tool for Microsoft Office customization. Learn more...

Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010

Add-in Express is completely compatible with Windows 7 including its strict security and implements all newest features introduced by Microsoft Office 2010 such as Office Ribbon UI, contextual tabs, shared ribbons, the Microsoft Office Menu, Quick Access Toolbar, Backstage View task panes, etc. Learn more...

Visual designers

Forget about routine coding and use visual designers to customize Microsoft Office menus, toolbars, ribbon tabs, task panes, forms, windows, regions, etc. And sure make use of special components when accessing Microsoft Office objects and handling its events. Learn more...

Microsoft Excel Task Panes, RTD and UDF

Add-in Express supports Microsoft Excel RTD servers and Microsoft Excel Automation plug-ins. The former enable you to connect Microsoft Excel with real-time data sources, the latter allow you to develop new worksheet functions. Finally, you get task panes for all Microsoft Excel versions. Learn more...

Microsoft Outlook-targeted features

For Microsoft Outlook add-ins, Add-in Express not only implements basic technologies but also supplies your Microsoft Outlook plug-ins with new unique features including Advanced Form and View Regions, Microsoft Outlook-context sensitivity, application-level keyboard shortcuts and more. Learn more...

True RAD - you write applied code only

Add-in Express for Delphi is completely based on the Rapid Application Development (True RAD) paradigm and allows you to reduce the time you used to spend on COM add-in, smart tag and RTD server development at least by half. Learn more...
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