‘Add-in Express for Office and .net’ category archive
Outlook 2010 Solutions Module revisited
Pieter van der Westhuizen | February 2nd, 2012
It's been a year and seven months since my first article about the Outlook 2010 Solutions Module. Time sure flies when you're having fun. Since I first wrote the article, I received numerous comments and questions about the Outlook 2010 Solutions module, mostly on how to programmatically add items to it... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – connecting business logic to Office events
Ty Anderson | January 26th, 2012
On Tuesday we published Part 3 of the end-to-end demo. Today, we have Part 4. In reality parts 3 and 4 can be taken together but we thought it's better to break them up a bit and provide a bit of a break. But we have momentum now so let's keep this train a-moving because Part 5 is almost ready for its debut as well.... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – interacting with Office object models & events
Ty Anderson | January 24th, 2012
I admit some time has passed since we produced parts 1 and part 2 of our end-to-end demo. I'll take the blame for it. It's okay. But I want you to know the remaining parts have been sitting in my Outlook Tasks folder… staring at me… taunting me.
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Office 365 – Attach files from SharePoint to Outlook E-mail programmatically
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 23rd, 2012
In my last post, Save Outlook e-mails & attachments to SharePoint Online programmatically, I showed you how you can write a Microsoft Outlook Add-in that will save all the attachments on an e-mail to the Office 365 SharePoint Online Shared Documents library. In today's post I would like to show you how to do the opposite, e.g. how to attach files from SharePoint Online to Outlook e-mail messages. This could be useful if your customer has a shared library with documents they send via e-mail on a regular basis.
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How to load your Office COM add-in on condition
Andrei Smolin | January 20th, 2012
A typical problem is: how to unload my add-in if a custom condition is met. This blog post is about how to solve this problem.... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 – Save Outlook e-mails & attachments to SharePoint Online programmatically
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 19th, 2012
If you're following Ty's Office 365 Newswires and read this article about Microsoft already having sold five million Office 365 seats in roughly two and a half months, I'm sure you would agree with me that Office 365 is set to change, if not revolutionize the way people use and interact with Microsoft Office.
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How to navigate through the Microsoft Office Command Bar system
Andrei Smolin | January 16th, 2012
There are 4 instances of the command bar button "Save" (Id=3) in Excel. Two of them are best known: a button on the Standard commandbar and an item in the File menu. The other two instances are buried in the command bar system... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: get the actual type name behind System.__ComObject with Visual C# or VB.NET
Andrei Smolin | December 20th, 2011
Developers accessing Application.Selection and Application.ActiveSheet in Excel or Explorer.Selection.Item(i), Folder.Items(j), Inspector.CurrentItem in Outlook do know the notorious "System.__ComObject" string. It indicates that the actual type of the COM object is unknown... Read the rest of this entry →
How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: replying from a context-menu
Andrei Smolin | December 14th, 2011
Let's consider the case then the user replies to an Outlook e-mail from the context menu. First off, you can reply to one item only; that item is selected or right-clicked in an explorer window or is opened in an inspector window.... Read the rest of this entry →
How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: tracking Inspector.Activate
Andrei Smolin | December 13th, 2011
In my previous article I explained the Reply event and parameters it provides. Also, I described a class handling this event in a version-neutral way. Now what I want is to show how you intercept Outlook's Inspector.Activate event.... Read the rest of this entry →
How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: tracking Explorer.SelectionChange
Andrei Smolin | December 8th, 2011
Add-in Express implements a version-independent approach to handling events of an Outlook item. The class implementing this is called ADXOutlookItemEvents. I recommend that you regard this class as a set of event handlers; you can implement several such classes to follow several business rules... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create a custom event when Excel calculation mode changes
Andrei Smolin | December 5th, 2011
You should be aware that no such event exists. Let's create it. In Excel 2007 - 2010, you can change the calculation mode using the buttons shown in the screenshot below... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Handle events of an Outlook item
Andrei Smolin | November 28th, 2011
There are two variants of handling events of an Outlook item. You can connect to events of an item shown in the active inspector window. In addition, you can connect to events of an item selected in the explorer window... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: Office 15 Beta to Debut January 2012 – 11.26.2011
Ty Anderson | November 26th, 2011
I'm a day late with the Office Newswire for this week. I am without excuse but I will still lay blame on the tryptophan-induced coma I had as a result of all the turkey I ate during Thanksgiving. That and the 2 pieces of pecan pie... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook and Word Toolbars mixed: problem and solution
Andrei Smolin | November 17th, 2011
Have you ever run into the issue when an Outlook toolbar created by your add-in shows up in Word? Or maybe, a Word toolbar gets displayed in Outlook? This article describes the issue and provides a workaround; the source code is supplied in VB.NET, C# and Delphi... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Use Restrict method in Outlook to get calendar items
Eugene Astafiev | November 15th, 2011
I described how to use the Find and FindNext methods against calendar items in my previous post. Today I would like to take closer look at how to deal with calendar items using the Restrict method... Read the rest of this entry →
