Archive for March, 2008
Build Outlook add-in in .NET to manage Outlook templates & signatures
Andrei Smolin | March 28th, 2008
How to avoid a boring and time consuming work of retyping the sane words and phrases in Outlook correspondence. Let's develop an Outlook add-in that will keep and manage all our template phrases and signatures.... Read the rest of this entry →
Give the look-and-feel of Microsoft Office colors to your custom .NET controls
Eugene Astafiev | March 21st, 2008
To make your controls look like Office ones isn't a simple task. When Office developers show .NET controls in their add-ins or standalone applications, they have to customize controls in order to conform to Office color styles.... Read the rest of this entry →
Make the Office 2007 Ribbon work easy
Andrei Smolin | March 14th, 2008
Why the Ribbon tab designer by Add-in Express is better than that of VSTO 2008? Because it prevents the Office 2007 Ribbon XML from being constructed manually and in this way leaves no place for run-time errors.... Read the rest of this entry →
How to program IE add-on, toolbar / bar, menu in C#, VB.NET, C++
Eugene Astafiev | March 14th, 2008
When I started developing IE add-ons I found out that Internet Explorer might generate a huge number of threads and processes and that my add-on is created in each of those threads. However, my plug-in contains data that should be accessible for all instances of the IE add-on. In this post, I will tell you how to make communication between IE add-on instances easy using Add-in Express for Internet Explorer.... Read the rest of this entry →
