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Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector using Add-in Express Advanced regions (VB.NET)

March 13th, 2010
This video HowTo showcases the capabilities of Add-in Express Advanced Regions for customizing inspectors in Outlook 2000 - 2007. Using Advanced Regions you can embed any .net forms into a native Outlook Inspector window and position it to the right, to the left, above or below the inspector window, or overlaying it...Read the rest of this entry

Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010 and Add-in Express 2010

March 5th, 2010
Every time when I set about to write on some topic like this, I am torn by internal strife - whether to develop a theme in such a major-marketing tone, so characteristic of bravura press-releases that have already flooded web-sites of component vendors, or simply publish a post on the blog. ...Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector toolbars (VB.NET)

March 5th, 2010
Today we are going to explore the capabilities of the ADXOlInspectorCommandBar component that you can use to add your own toolbars and modify existing ones in Outlook 2000, XP and 2003. This component as well as ADXOlExplorerCommandBar is context-sensitive...Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector in a VB.NET COM add-in

February 26th, 2010
A couple of weeks ago I came across an interesting article on MSDN - Building a C++ Add-in for Outlook 2010. Aha, Outlook 2010, I need to scrutinize it when I have a spare minute, definitely I will find something remarkable there. This is what I thought when added a new task with the link to that article to my TODO list. Well, I've got a spare minute today...Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector menu (VB.NET)

February 19th, 2010
This is yet another short HowTo sample of the serious exploring all possible ways of the Outlook UI customization. And today we will show you how to customize the Inspector main menu in Outlook 2000-2003...Read the rest of this entry

Add-in Express for Office – Generation 2010 roadmap

February 5th, 2010
We started Generation 2010 in November, 2009 and even had time to release Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer. As for "Office", for quite a long time there have been more questions than answers. And, quite naturally, we've been dependent not only on the plans of Microsoft but Embarcadero's schedule as well....Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Explorer using Add-in Express regions (VB.NET)

February 5th, 2010
This video HowTo showcases the capabilities of Add-in Express Advanced Regions for customizing Outlook 2000 - 2007 views. Using advanced regions you can embed your .net form into a native Outlook view and customize such Outlook Explorer parts as Reading Pane, List of items (Supergrid), place your custom form under the Navigation Pane, etc...Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: ribbon controls and keyboard shortcuts, part 3

February 4th, 2010
This is the 3rd and the final part of the video series covering the development of Outlook COM add-ins with Add-in Express. You already know how to create a new Outlook COM add-in project and add a custom Outlook commandbar (part 1). You also know how to add a custom pane to Outlook windows and access the Outlook object model (part 2)....Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: object model, task panes, events, part 2

February 1st, 2010
In the first part of this video sample we showed you how to create a new COM add-in solution and add a new Outlook commandbar. Now we are going to demonstrate how to deal with custom task panes in Outlook. ...Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: Explorer and Inspector command bars, part 1

February 1st, 2010
This is yet another series of visual HowTo that focus on Outlook COM add-ins. We will start from the very beginning and show you how to customize Outlook command bars and their buttons, Outlook menu and task panes, how to modify the Ribbon UI and handle events of controls. ...Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Explorer toolbars (VB.NET)

January 29th, 2010
In this video we will again be going over possible ways of customization the Outlook Explorer UI with Add-in Express for Office and .NET components. In the first part of the serious we focused on customizing the Outlook Explorer menu. Today we will explorer the capabilities of the ADXOlExplorerCommandBar component that you can use to add your own toolbars and modify existing ones...Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Customize the Outlook Explorer menu (VB.NET)

January 22nd, 2010
Today's sample opens a series of VB.NET HowTo videos in which we will have a close look at the most common ways of customizing the Outlook Explorer UI. Let's start with the Outlook main menu...Read the rest of this entry

Add-in Express upgrade policy

January 18th, 2010
After we had sent out the newsletter about Generation 2010 of Add-in Express (Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer is the first swallow : -), I received a few questions about our upgrade policy. Well, I will try to formalize this issue here....Read the rest of this entry

The Old New Year 2010 and Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer

January 15th, 2010
A period of more than 3 centuries when our country was part of Russia brought to our initially West-European culture lots of things habitual for Eurasian culture. Now we celebrate with the same passion Catholic Christmas, New Year, Orthodox Christmas and finally the Old New Year. ...Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Develop an RTD Server for Excel 2002 – 2007 in VB.NET

December 24th, 2009
In this short video we will show you how to develop an RTD Server using Add-in Express for Office and .NET. In the next 2 minutes you will get the basic notion of real time data server: how to create it, return a value and see how the RTD server works in Excel...Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Create a Smart Tag for Excel 2002 – 2007 in VB.NET

December 18th, 2009
After COM add-ins and RTD servers, smart tags are arguably the third most-in-demand extensions in Microsoft Office world. In today's video sample we are going to show you how to develop a smart tag for Microsoft Excel XP, 2003 and Excel 2007...Read the rest of this entry
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