Customizing Outlook bar, Navigation and Reading pane
Outlook Today with custom Delphi forms

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

Advanced Outlook view and forms regions

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

Customize Outlook Today with your VCL forms

Advanced Regions provided by Add-in Express enable you to replace the content of any Outlook views with your custom VCL form. For example, you can provide end-users with a feature-rich summary page based on your custom VCL page instead of the built-in Outlook Today. More about modifying Outlook views in Outlook Today style.

Replacing a folder view with a custom VCL form

Add any forms to any Outlook views

With Advanced Outlook Regions you can use Delphi forms as part of any Outlook views, custom or built-in. You can embed one or several forms over the Outlook view pane.

Adding custom VCL forms to a folder view

Enhance the Reading pane with custom forms

Another in-demand feature of Advanced Outlook Regions is using your Delphi forms on the Reading pane.

Adding custom VCL forms to the Reading pane

Use any forms to extend the Navigation pane, Outlook bar and To-Do bar

One more advantage of Advanced Outlook Regions is the ability to place your custom VCL forms onto the To-Do bar, Navigation pane and Outlook bar. Find more about customizing Outlook To-Do bar and Navigation pane.

Adding a custom VCL forms to the Navigation pane and To-Do Bar

Customize Outlook forms with any VCL controls

You can customize any Outlook forms (mail, task, contact, appointment forms, etc.) by embedding your custom VCL forms around the content of any Inspector windows. More about customizing Outlook Inspector mail forms, tasks, contacts and appointments.

Adding a custom VCL forms to an Inspector window

You use any forms and controls for any Outlook views and forms

Note, you can use Advanced Regions for all Outlook views and forms. So, you can extend any built-in views and forms as well as views and forms delivered with any Outlook-based clients, such as Business Contact Manager, the Microsoft CRM Outlook client and Getting Things Done Outlook add-ins.