February 8th, 2010
If you are using Microsoft’s WiX toolset to build a setup for your Add-In, then there are several ways to register the Add-In. I’ve seen examples that use a custom action to call RegSvr32.exe to do the registration. But since RegSvr32.exe does nothing more than calling the DllRegisterServer function of our Add-In, why not calling that directly from a custom action?...
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Tags: COM add-ins, Delphi, Deployment, Excel, Office, Outlook, PowerPoint
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February 5th, 2010
We started Generation 2010 in November, 2009 and even had time to release Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer. As for "Office", for quite a long time there have been more questions than answers. And, quite naturally, we've been dependent not only on the plans of Microsoft but Embarcadero's schedule as well....
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Delphi, Office, Outlook, Visual Studio, VSTO
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February 5th, 2010
This video HowTo showcases the capabilities of Add-in Express Advanced Regions for customizing Outlook 2000 - 2007 views. Using advanced regions you can embed your .net form into a native Outlook view and customize such Outlook Explorer parts as Reading Pane, List of items (Supergrid), place your custom form under the Navigation Pane, etc...
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Outlook, Outlook regions, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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February 5th, 2010
Today's HowTo sample is devoted to the capabilities of Add-in Express Advanced Regions for modifying Outlook 2007 views. You can use Advanced Regions to embed your .NET form into a native Outlook view and modify such Outlook Explorer parts as Reading pane, List of items (Supergrid), place your custom form under the Navigation pane, etc...
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Outlook, Outlook regions, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO
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February 4th, 2010
This is the 3rd and the final part of the video series covering the development of Outlook COM add-ins with Add-in Express. You already know how to create a new Outlook COM add-in project and add a custom Outlook commandbar (part 1). You also know how to add a custom pane to Outlook windows and access the Outlook object model (part 2)....
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Office 2007 Ribbon, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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February 1st, 2010
In the first part of this video sample we showed you how to create a new COM add-in solution and add a new Outlook commandbar. Now we are going to demonstrate how to deal with custom task panes in Outlook. ...
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Outlook, task panes, VB.NET
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February 1st, 2010
This is yet another series of visual HowTo that focus on Outlook COM add-ins. We will start from the very beginning and show you how to customize Outlook command bars and their buttons, Outlook menu and task panes, how to modify the Ribbon UI and handle events of controls. ...
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Office 2007 Ribbon, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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January 29th, 2010
In this video we will again be going over possible ways of customization the Outlook Explorer UI with Add-in Express for Office and .NET components. In the first part of the serious we focused on customizing the Outlook Explorer menu. Today we will explorer the capabilities of the ADXOlExplorerCommandBar component that you can use to add your own toolbars and modify existing ones...
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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January 29th, 2010
We go on with looking at the possible ways of modifying the Outlook Explorer UI with the help of Add-in Express for Office and .NET components. Today we are going to look at how the ADXOlExplorerCommandBar component can help you add your own toolbars and modify the existing ones...
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO
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January 22nd, 2010
Today's sample opens a series of VB.NET HowTo videos in which we will have a close look at the most common ways of customizing the Outlook Explorer UI. Let's start with the Outlook main menu...
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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January 22nd, 2010
This HowTo example opens up a series of videos for VSTO developers that focuses on the most common customization options for the Outlook Explorer UI....
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Tags: .NET, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO
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January 18th, 2010
After we had sent out the newsletter about Generation 2010 of Add-in Express (Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer is the first swallow : -), I received a few questions about our upgrade policy. Well, I will try to formalize this issue here....
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Tags: .NET, Delphi, IE add-ons, Office, Outlook Express
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January 15th, 2010
I am sure you know that Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most popular web-browser. According to the Global Web Stats for December, 2009 Internet Explorer (8, 7 and 6) takes 50.3% of the market. Millions of people use IE every day at work, at home, on their way from work to home or the other way around...
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Tags: .NET, IE add-ons, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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January 15th, 2010
A period of more than 3 centuries when our country was part of Russia brought to our initially West-European culture lots of things habitual for Eurasian culture. Now we celebrate with the same passion Catholic Christmas, New Year, Orthodox Christmas and finally the Old New Year. ...
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Delphi, IE add-ons, Office, Visual Studio, VSTO
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December 24th, 2009
In this short video we will show you how to develop an RTD Server using Add-in Express for Office and .NET. In the next 2 minutes you will get the basic notion of real time data server: how to create it, return a value and see how the RTD server works in Excel...
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Tags: .NET, Excel, Office, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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December 18th, 2009
After COM add-ins and RTD servers, smart tags are arguably the third most-in-demand extensions in Microsoft Office world. In today's video sample we are going to show you how to develop a smart tag for Microsoft Excel XP, 2003 and Excel 2007...
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Tags: .NET, Excel, Office, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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