Archive for March, 2009
March 20th, 2009
There is only one simple and reliable way to get a valid Outlook object when dragging Outlook items onto a .NET form of your Outlook add-in. Let's have a good look at this way by example of MailItem and an advanced Outlook form region......
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Tags: .NET, C#, Outlook, Outlook regions, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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March 13th, 2009
The View object itself is simple but it has one very powerful property. This property is called XML, it contains an xml definition of a folder view and today we are going to look at the capabilities of the filter element…...
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Tags: .NET, C#, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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March 7th, 2009
As for the way .net controls behave in Internet Explorer, it’s Okay, Add-in Express will take care of it. As concerns their look-and-feel, we are going to scrutinize this issue closely today. Standard .NET controls look rather clumsy in Internet Explorer......
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Tags: .NET, C#, IE add-ons, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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March 3rd, 2009
Keeping up the development of Add-in Express most in-demand features, we tweaked the Advanced Task Panes for working on Microsoft PowerPoint and Word. Early in the morning today, I wrote the previous sentence, captured and pasted the above screenshot and realized that there is nothing more to write on this issue......
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Tags: .NET, Delphi, PowerPoint, task panes, VSTO, Word
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March 2nd, 2009
As compared to the previous generation, Add-in Express 2009 doesn’t contain revolutionary changes or enhancements. We have not rewritten the core code completely, the major part of the time was spent on the most in-demand features, such as Outlook view and form regions and Excel, Word and PowerPoint task panes......
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Tags: .NET, Delphi, Excel, IE add-ons, Office, Office 2007 Ribbon, Outlook, PowerPoint, task panes, VSTO, Word
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March 2nd, 2009
In addition to bug fixes, which I must admit were not too numerous, and some platform-dependent modifications and enhancements concerning Excel, we've decided to improve Advanced Excel Task Panes as well......
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Tags: .NET, C#, Delphi, Excel, task panes, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO
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March 2nd, 2009
As early as in July 2008, in version 4.2 we added beta support of three rather specific regions: FolderView and ReadingPane for the Outlook Explorer window, and InspectorRegion for the Outlook Inspector window. Since then we have fixed a couple of bugs, but didn’t go through with it to announce these regions 100% complete......
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Tags: .NET, Delphi, Outlook, Outlook regions, Visual Studio, VSTO
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