Creating advanced Excel task panes in Delphi.
Customizing Excel GUI, workbooks with VCL forms.

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

Advanced Excel Task Panes

For Excel developers, Add-in Express offers a new, unique technology of Advanced Task Panes. Using this technology you can customize the Excel GUI by embedding custom Delphi forms and using any built-in or third-party controls. As a result, you get full-featured custom-tailored Excel plug-ins that work on all Excel versions, across 2000 through the newest 2010.

Several panes in the same region

Customize Excel books with your VCL forms

Advanced Task Panes provided by Add-in Express seamlessly fit into the GUI considering the specificities of each Excel version. The Advanced Excel Task Panes allow you to do without pop-up windows and give you the opportunity to build a first-class GUI based on modern design and preferences of your your end-users.

Regions available for custom panes

Excel Real-time Data (RTD) Servers

Another in-demand feature of Add-in Express for Delphi is developing Excel real-time data servers. With Add-in Express you can build Excel RTD servers with any number of RTD topics and use them on any Excel worksheets. Your real-time data can be used in Excel formulas, charts and pivot-tables. See a sample Excel Real-Time Data server project.

A formula that uses a sample RTD Server

Excel Automation add-ins (UDF)

In Excel 2002 - 2010, COM add-ins can be used to develop new worksheets functions (user-defined functions). Such add-ins, called Excel Automation Add-ins, allow you to create new functions used for any purposes. See a sample Excel Automation add-in project.

A formula that uses a sample Excel Automation add-in
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