Archive for March, 2008

Build Outlook add-in in .NET to manage Outlook templates & signatures

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.

Give Microsoft Office colors look to your custom .NET controls

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.

Make the Office 2007 Ribbon work easy

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.

How to program IE add-on, toolbar / bar, menu in C#, VB.NET, C++

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.