Create Office add-in, smart tag and RTD server in VB.NET, C#, C++, RO Chrome
IDEs
- Visual Studio® 2003, 2005, 2008
- Visual Basic® .NET 2003, 2005, 2008
- Visual C#® .NET 2003, 2005, 2008
- Visual C++® .NET 2003, 2005, 2008
- VB.NET 2005, 2008 Express
- C# 2005, 2008 Express
- RemObjects Chrome 1.5 and higher
Applications
- Microsoft Excel® 2000 - 2007
- Microsoft Outlook® 2000 - 2007
- Microsoft Word 2000 - 2007
- Microsoft FrontPage® 2000 - 2003
- Microsoft PowerPoint® 2000-2007
- Microsoft Access 2000 - 2007
- Microsoft Project 2000 - 2007
- Microsoft MapPoint® 2004
- Microsoft Visio® 2002 - 2007
- Microsoft Publisher 2003, 2007
- Microsoft InfoPath® 2007
Add-in Express .NET is the first visual tool for programming Microsoft® Office extensions, including COM add-ins, smart tags, RTD servers and Microsoft Excel® user defined functions. It completely supports Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2003, 2005, 2008) and makes it very comfortable for developing extensions for all available Microsoft Office versions from 2000 to 2007.
Visual designers: you write functional code only
Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and .net is completely based on the Rapid Application Development (True RAD) paradigm and makes the development of a COM add-in, smart tag and Microsoft Excel RTD Server as fast as it can possibly be. The programming model and run-time code of Add-in Express are based on the .NET Framework, written in Visual C# ® and enable you to create Office extensions:
- Deployable and updatable
- Secure and isolated
- Version-neutral
- Feature-rich
Add-in Express provides special project templates that include all necessary functionality for Microsoft Office plugins and centralize all technology-specific components through visual designers and RAD modules.

Add-in Express for .net features and benefits
Microsoft Office extensibilityAdd-in Express is completely based on the Office extensibility technology and extends it with unique features which makes your Office development fast, easy and effective. You can develop all kinds of Office extensions including COM add-ins, smart tags, Excel RTD servers, Automation add-ins and XLLs. Learn more... |
Version-neutrality and edition independenceAdd-in Express provides you with version-neutral run-time, so you needn't write code for each Office version. Your write your code once, and it runs on all Office versions, from 2000 to 2007. In addition, your solutions are fully compatible with all Office editions, from Student and Home to Enterprise and Ultimate. Learn more... | |
Effective project architectureAdd-in Express generates ready-to-use solution templates based on our long-term experience in development and deployment of Office solutions. The Add-in Express architecture makes your Office solutions secure, isolated, managed, deployable and updatable with your minimal efforts. Learn more... |
Visual designers instead of codingYou use visual designers to customize Office menus, toolbars, ribbons, task panes, forms, windows, regions, option and property pages, etc. Add-in Express gives you the True RAD way, so you use components and visual designers instead of routine writing of glue code. Learn more... | |
Outlook is the premium platformOutlook developers benefit from a plenty of Outlook-related features. Using Add-in Express components and their visual designers you can make your Outlook menus, toolbars, ribbons or certain controls context sensitive, bind them to specified folders or content types, build option and folder property pages, add navigation pane shortcuts, embed view and form regions and more. Learn more... |
1st-class GUI with Advanced Outlook RegionsAdd-in Express gives you the Advanced Outlook Regions that are shared (you can place several forms from several add-ins into one region), version-neutral (your regions work on Office 2000 as well as on Office 2007 and others), flexible (you can add regions for Outlook views, forms, To-Do bar, Navigation and Reading panes). Finally, you can create, close and move your regions at run-time. Learn more... | |
Any .NET controls on Office toolbarsOn all versions of Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, you can place any built-in or third-party controls on Office toolbars. So, your own toolbars can contain grids, tree views, list views, user controls, forms, etc. With Add-in Express you build a feature-rich GUI that will definitely be liked by your end-users. Learn more... |
Improved Excel extensionsIf Excel is your target application, with Add-in Express you can create amazing Excel add-ins with the Advanced Excel Task Panes that work for all Excel versions, effective real-time data servers with any number of RTD topics, new user-defined worksheet functions (UDFs) through Automation add-ins or XLLs. Learn more... | |
Deployment made easyWith Add-in Express the deployment of your Office projects becomes so easy that you will forget about it. Each Add-in Express solution contains a setup project with all necessary prerequisites. Plus, your solutions fully support ClickOnce, so just build and publish your solution once, deploy and update anywhere. Learn more... |
True RAD - you write applied code onlyAdd-in Express for .net 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. You write applied code only, Add-in Express does everything else. Learn more... | |
Our customer says:
"We have created software in the past that works with Microsoft Office using the ActiveX interface, and we have always dreaded it. Add-in Express has changed all that for us. Writing add-ins takes less than one third of the time it used to take us, and we are free of the burden of mastering the arcane twists of Office's ActiveX interfaces. We now look forward to programming COM Add-ins. Support from Add-in Express guys has always been prompt and helpful, and every problem we have had has been solved, promptly."
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