Archive for December, 2008
Add-in Express 2009 Roadmap – Part 2
Eugene Starostin | December 24th, 2008
I have discovered an interesting fact. My posts on this blog led to the increased number of messages in my Inbox. But practically no one writes directly here, to the blog. The main goal is reached, though – we have got one more tool for communication with our customers... :-)... Read the rest of this entry →
The New Year 2009 is coming!
Eugene Starostin | December 22nd, 2008
The New Year is coming! For the last seven days I'm saying these words every time I step over the threshold of our office. Do you feel there is something special in the air? :) So, I will be brief...... Read the rest of this entry →
Migrate the code of your Office solution from Win32 and VBA code to .NET
Andrei Smolin | December 19th, 2008
As you probably know the .NET Framework provides a number of advantages when compared to Win32 programming. Say, administrators have by far more control over your code – they may restrict your code to use these or those resources or permissions. While it puts some limits on developers, companies are able to build environments that are safer and more controllable. ... Read the rest of this entry →
CodeGear Delphi Prism and Microsoft Office extensions
Eugene Starostin | December 17th, 2008
Embarcadero, continuing to support Delphi for Win32, is about to launch onto the market the version of Visual Studio 2008 Standard with Delphi for .NET built in. To be more precise, this is not the original Delphi for .NET, nor is it a reincarnation of Delphi 8, it is a "new" .NET-oriented programming language, which, however, already has a rich history. ... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2009 for CodeGear Delphi 2009 and… C++Builder
Eugene Starostin | December 12th, 2008
Delphi remains platform number 1 for developing commercial-class Microsoft Office extensions. Is it big news for anybody? We have been in the know of that for a long time and say it to everyone. What is more, we still develop all our commercial add-ins on Delphi 7. ... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Exchange Data using the Outlook Attachments collection
Dmitry Kostochko | December 12th, 2008
Normally Outlook developers use the MailItem.UserProperties collection to send and receive some additional information with email messages. In this sample add-in for Microsoft Outlook, I suggest a slightly different approach ...... Read the rest of this entry →
