‘Add-in Express for Office and VCL’ category archive
Add-in Express for Office and Delphi VCL adds support for Delphi XE3
Dmitry Kostochko | December 21st, 2012
Some of you probably noticed that we added support for Delphi XE3 in Security Manager for Microsoft Outlook as early as in November and you were probably asking yourself why we didn't support XE3 in our main Delphi component - Add-in Express for Office and Delphi VCL... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2013 applications are supported by the new version of Add-in Express for Delphi VCL
Dmitry Kostochko | September 25th, 2012
The new version of our Add-in Express for Office and Delphi VCL that adds support for Microsoft Office 2013 Consumer Preview was published a few hours ago... Read the rest of this entry →
Upcoming Add-in Express releases – Q&A
Eugene Starostin | July 31st, 2012
We are going to release the new versions of the following products: Add-in Express for Office and .net and Add-in Express for Office and Delphi VCL. However, please note that our cornerstone product, Add-in Express for Office and .net, comes out first... Read the rest of this entry →
How to support Office 2013 in your Add-in Express based projects
Eugene Starostin | July 27th, 2012
Recently Microsoft has made Office 2013 Consumer Preview available, so I am announcing its support by the next generation of our products. We added the complete support for all core extensibility technologies including COM add-ins, XLL add-ons and RTD Servers... Read the rest of this entry →
How Visual Studio 2012 will be supported by the upcoming Add-in Express releases
Eugene Starostin | July 26th, 2012
As early as this spring we announced the next generation of our flagship product – Add-in Express for Office and .net. The 2 main features included in this major release are support for coming Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013... Read the rest of this entry →
Support for Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012 coming soon
Dmitry Kostochko | July 23rd, 2012
For the last few days we have received quite a lot of questions with one prevailing theme - When are you going to add support for Office 2013? The first one arrived a few hours after Microsoft had published Office 2013 CP and put a smile on our faces: Office 2013 has been out for a few hours and there is no update yet?... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2010 Admin Templates and Add-in Express
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 12th, 2010
If you look at the list of known issues for the latest release of Add-in Express 2010, you'll notice a specific issue I myself ran into not so long ago: WebViewPane region cannot be used for folders if their WebViewOn and WebViewUrl properties cannot be set. Possible solution is setting the "Allow Script in shared folders" and "Allow Script in Public Folders" options in the security settings
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Novel way to handle Outlook 2010 Fast Shutdown
Sally Peck | June 28th, 2010
In order to understand how Outlook’s Fast Shutdown mechanism affects your Outlook Add-ins, I have made a utility to test and demonstrate Outlook 2010 fast shutdown mechanism and an example Outlook Add-in... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Fast Shutdown: under the yellow hood
Sally Peck | June 17th, 2010
The Fast Shutdown feature found in Outlook 2010 represents a new direction for Microsoft Outlook towards Outlook stability and Outlook integrity. From Microsoft Outlook '97 till Microsoft Outlook 2007, system administrators around the world had to deal with Outlook hanging, Outlook Slow closing, corrupted PST (or OST) files and various Outlook Add-ins that hang for no reason... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create advanced view and form regions in Outlook (Delphi)
Dmitry Kostochko | May 21st, 2010
Today we are going to build an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2000-2007, in which we create an advanced view region for the Outlook Explorer window and an advanced form region for the Outlook Inspector window... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 for Office: new GUI designers and the new guy
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 14th, 2010
Firstly, let me introduce myself, I’m Pieter van der Westhuizen, a recent addition to the Add-in Express team and I will be your host on a series of blog posts covering various aspects of the Add-in Express product range. As a keen user of the Add-in Express tools, this is an ideal opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with like-minded users... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create advanced task panes in Excel, Word and PowerPoint (Delphi)
Dmitry Kostochko | May 14th, 2010
As you probably know Add-in Express for Office and VCL allows creating advanced task panes for MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint 2000-2010. Today we'll develop a single add-in project that supports Excel, Word and PowerPoint... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2010 RTM and Visual Studio 2010 RTM fully supported by Add-in Express 2010 Beta 2
Eugene Starostin | May 13th, 2010
I know for sure that quite an impressive number of our customers (about 2 thousands) are already using the previous beta to their utmost. To all of them as well as to those of you who received the keys but haven't thought yet about the compatibility with Office 2010, I recommend installing beta 2. And here is why... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Develop Outlook add-in with custom command bars and ribbon tabs (Delphi)
Dmitry Kostochko | May 7th, 2010
Today we'll develop an add-in for Outlook 2000 - 2007 in Delphi 2009. We are not going to create anything super complex, I will just show you how to work with our visual components at design-time and how it looks in Outlook at run-time... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook 2010 Fast Shutdown feature
Dmitry Kostochko | May 4th, 2010
Microsoft first attempted to fix at one fling all bugs of all programs and programmers that use the Outlook Object Model when releasing SP2 for Outlook 2007. That attempt was not very successful, and Outlook 2007 SP2 may hang in memory when shutting down the same as all previous Outlook versions. Their second attempt appeared to be much more successful... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 for Office becomes free for Standard packages
Eugene Starostin | April 29th, 2010
Until now only subscribers of Professional and Premium packages could be sure of their cloudless future with Add-in Express and confident that their Add-in Express based extensions would work consistently with Office 2010, 32- and 64-bit (naturally, the latter is only for .net). "Why so?" you may ask... Read the rest of this entry →