‘Add-in Express 2010’ category archive
How to check programmatically if the user is editing an Excel cell
Andrei Smolin | March 23rd, 2011
Here's a typical scenario: your code modifying a workbook fails because the user types something into a cell. Now how to determine that Excel is in the edit mode?
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Video: Add-in Express Regions for Outlook and VSTO
Ty Anderson | March 16th, 2011
A couple of weeks ago Eric Legault made mention of the new Add-in Express product known as Add-in Express Regions for Outlook and VSTO. I've had the pleasure of working with this new product for several weeks and I think it is a winner... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: How Add-in Express makes Office development rewarding
Ty Anderson | March 10th, 2011
Office development is a rewarding experience providing you the developer using Visual Studio the opportunity to impact the lives of users of all shapes and sizes. Using Office as the development platform, you can build solutions that integrate with your users' business processes and simplify their life... Read the rest of this entry →
Redeploying Office extensions via ClickTwice
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | March 1st, 2011
This is the final part of the series that describes all possible ways of deploying your Add-in Express-based Office extensions. I recommend that you begin from the very beginning: Step-by-step deployment of Office extensions: Overview. Or, if you are interested only in ClickTwice :) deployment, you can start right away with Deploying Office extensions via ClickTwice :)... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying Office extensions via ClickTwice
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 28th, 2011
Part 7 of the deployment series explains how you can use your favorite installer software to deploy your Office extensions over the web; this is the essence of ClickTwice :). If you didn’t read the previous parts of the series, I'd advise that you start with Part 1 - a brief overview of the available deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via Group Policy
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 25th, 2011
This is part 6 of the deployment series that targets corporate deployment techniques and provides step-by-step instructions for deploying your per-machine Office extensions via Group Policy. I recommend that you start with reading Part 1 that gives a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Redeploying per-user Office extensions via ClickOnce
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 24th, 2011
This is part 5 of the series of articles which describes all possible ways of deploying your Office extensions based on Add-in Express. I recommend you starting from the very beginning: Step-by-step deployment of Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via ClickOnce
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 24th, 2011
In part 4 of the deployment series I will show you how to deploy your per-user Office extension using ClickOnce. Before we proceed, I recommend that you read Part 1 for a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Extend Your World – with our newest product
Eric Legault | February 24th, 2011
We here at Add-in Express like to boast that our products can help you take control of your projects, and take over the more mundane (and sometimes incredibly frustrating) aspects of add-in development. After all, our tools are focused on Rapid Application Development (RAD)... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-machine Office extensions via an MSI installer
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
This is part 3 of the deployment series that provides step-by-step instructions for deploying your per-machine Office extensions via an MSI installer. I recommend that you start with reading Part 1 that gives a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying Office extensions – step-by-step guide
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
The table below gives an overview of the main features supported by the above mentioned technologies that you can use for deploying your Add-in Express based Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – building advanced task panes and advanced Outlook regions, using advanced controls
Ty Anderson | February 7th, 2011
I admit it…it's been awhile since we published Part 1. So I don't blame you if gave up hope of ever seeing Part 2. But I'm here to tell you that you have not waited in vain because today we present to you Part 2 of the Create an Office Shared Add-in series... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real-Time Data server: Utility functions; building help, part 12
Maurice Calvert | January 27th, 2011
Hoping again for re-use, I created a little utility library which contains some general-purpose functions that you may find useful... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server: Changing the Excel RTD Throttle Interval, part 11
Maurice Calvert | January 26th, 2011
By default, Excel won't call RefreshData more often than every 2 seconds (the Throttle Interval). For financial data that's arriving fast and furiously, this is reasonable, but for GeodesiX it makes the interface seem rather slow... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server for Excel: Creating the Setup project, part 10
Maurice Calvert | January 25th, 2011
In part 2: Avoiding VSTO, I lauded Add-in Express for having such an easy interface to create a Steup Project. I stand by what I said, but GeodesiX goes a fair bit further than just implementing a few Excel UDFs. The problem that have to address is... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server: Embedding a GoogleMap page in an Excel Task Pane, part 9
Maurice Calvert | January 24th, 2011
Another short subject, but worthy of a few remarks. The GoogleMaps taskpane is implemented in a separate project, hopefully re-usable. The task pane is created in Geodesix.AddinModule #27#, which also contains the event handlers
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