Archive for the 'Add-in Express .NET' Category
Sometimes you need to process incoming e-mails and meeting requests in order to retrieve sender data for your CRM, to save attachments to your Document Management System (DMS), to process automated e-mails, or to convert selected incoming messages to plain text. Whenever you need to track incoming e-mails, you face the following Outlook events: NewMail, NewMailEx, and ItemAdd.
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To localize your COM add-in, you need to know the language settings of the Office application (host application) that the add-in is currently loaded in. In this post you will find some VB.NET and Delphi code samples of localizing your COM add-ins.
Read the rest of this entry... | Posted on April 19th, 2008 in Add-in Express .NET, Add-in Express VCL | No Comments »
In this post, I show you how to create a custom Outlook home folder page and enrich it with VBScript. Also I reveal the .NET way provided by Add-in Express: you create a custom .NET form and show it in the same way as Outlook Today does.
Read the rest of this entry... | Posted on April 11th, 2008 in Add-in Express .NET | No Comments »
Microsoft Outlook and Exchange are among the most popular applications utilizing MAPI. Add-in Express provides Outlook developers with a free component, MAPI Store Accessor, that hides MAPI complexities to provide developers with easy access to MAPI features.
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How to avoid a boring and time consuming work of retyping the sane words and phrases in Outlook correspondence. Let’s develop an Outlook add-in that will keep and manage all our template phrases and signatures.
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To make your controls look like Office ones isn’t a simple task. When Office developers show .NET controls in their add-ins or standalone applications, they have to customize controls in order to conform to Office color styles.
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Why the Ribbon tab designer by Add-in Express is better than that of VSTO 2008? Because it prevents the Office 2007 Ribbon XML from being constructed manually and in this way leaves no place for run-time errors.
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You created an MSI-based setup project, say in Visual Studio, installed it on the customer PC, and it resulted in Error 2908. In this post you will find a workaround for this scenario.
Read the rest of this entry... | Posted on November 12th, 2007 in Add-in Express .NET | No Comments »
Whenever you send e-mail messages in Microsoft Access, you get Outlook security warnings like œA program is trying to automatically send email. To get rid of such security prompts, use the Outlook Security Manager. With the ActiveX edition of this component you need just a few lines of code to switch the Outlook security off and on.
Read the rest of this entry... | Posted on September 12th, 2007 in Add-in Express .NET | No Comments »
How to get started with COM add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007 - 2000. Learn about object models, typical issues with Office add-ins, add-in deployment, shims, ClickOnce and more.
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Special components for Office 2000 - 2007 customization. Customize the Office UI including toolbars, menus, sub-menus, ribbons, task panes and property pages.
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Security and deployment, RAD modules and visual designers for Microsoft Office plug-ins. Adding toolbars, customizing Office Ribbon, Quick Access toolbar and Office Menu, creating task panes and more.
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Create secure, deployable, version-independent Microsoft Office extensions on RO Chrome for Visual Studio. Use RAD modules, designers and components to develop application-level COM add-ins, smart tags, RTD servers and user-defined functions.
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What to do if your add-in hangs Outlook and Outlook doesn’t close. Possible reasons and workarounds. Code samples in VB 6, VB.NET.
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Moving your add-in projects from C++ shims to Add-in Express .NET Loader. Get your add-in registered in the host application automatically.
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How Add-in Express .NET integrates MS Office PIAs into add-in solutions. Strategy and tactics of using MS Office PIAs. And about benefits of late binding.
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Office Primary Interop Assemblies. The official opinion of Microsoft. Is it possible to create an add-in with PIAs for all Office versions?
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Booker Prize. Also, all about setup projects based on Add-in Express. There are several custom events that we can use for…
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Here I will show you what is included in Add-in Express solutions. Attention, GUIDs are everywhere! Also I will speak about things that can be added to the add-in project, and tell you what should be done to retire right now.
Read the rest of this entry... | Posted on November 24th, 2005 in Add-in Express .NET | No Comments »
What are the shims and is it necessary to sign add-in projects with strong names? In general, I strongly recommend always including shims in your add-in projects if you have C++ in your Visual Studio .NET.
Read the rest of this entry... | Posted on November 22nd, 2005 in Add-in Express .NET | No Comments »