Archive for January, 2009
HowTo: Support MS Office applications, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in one project
Dmitry Kostochko | January 30th, 2009
Yes, you can do that in one Visual Studio project, but not in one solution. And yes, you can do it using the Add-in Express products. There are only two things to keep in mind…... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Install a COM add-in automatically using Windows Server Group Policy
Dmitry Kostochko | January 25th, 2009
Here you will get to know how you can use Windows Server Group Policy to install Office applications automatically, including Office COM add-ins. You will learn how to create a Group Policy object in Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2008, how to assign and remove an installation package…... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Store Microsoft Office documents in your custom data storage
Dmitry Kostochko | January 16th, 2009
One of the tasks that developers often run into is saving and retrieving Office documents (or document copies) from external data storage. This storage can be an SQL database, Web-service, FTP server as well as a shared network resource of a local area network. Let’s try to handle this task for such popular MS Office applications as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook…... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express for Office and .net / VSTO / VCL – Which product do I choose?
Eugene Starostin | January 14th, 2009
A rare day passes when we do not receive a question like that. We have several template answers which are helpful in some degree in deciding which Add-in Express edition to choose. But I am not satisfied with any of the templates. Now I will try to depict everything that makes a real difference between three editions of Add-in Express for Office, and all that is worth taking into consideration when choosing the edition right for you.... Read the rest of this entry →
