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Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector using Add-in Express Regions (VSTO)

March 13th, 2010
This visual HowTo showcases will demonstrate what Add-in Express Advanced Regions can offer you for modifying Outlook 2007 inspectors. Using Advanced Regions you can embed your .net form into a native Outlook Inspector window and place it to the left, to the right, at the top or at the bottom of the inspector window or even overlay 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: Modify Outlook Inspector command bars (VSTO)

March 5th, 2010
This visual sample highlights the capacities of the ADXOlInspectorCommandBar component that you can use to add your own toolbars and modify existing ones in Outlook 2003. Like ADXOlExplorerCommandBar, this component is also context-sensitive...Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector menu (VSTO)

February 19th, 2010
We continue a series of short video HowTo samples that focus on various ways of customizing the Outlook user interface. Today we are going to look into the main menu of Outlook 2003 Inspector...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 (VSTO)

February 5th, 2010
Today's HowTo sample is devoted to the capabilities of Add-in Express Advanced Regions for modifying Outlook 2007 views. You can use Advanced Regions to embed your .NET form into a native Outlook view and modify 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: Customize Outlook Explorer toolbars (VSTO)

January 29th, 2010
We go on with looking at the possible ways of modifying the Outlook Explorer UI with the help of Add-in Express for Office and .NET components. Today we are going to look at how the ADXOlExplorerCommandBar component can help you add your own toolbars and modify the existing ones...Read the rest of this entry

Video HowTo: Customize the Outlook Explorer menu (VSTO)

January 22nd, 2010
This HowTo example opens up a series of videos for VSTO developers that focuses on the most common customization options for the Outlook Explorer UI....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

Office Alarm – Office Live Add-in and Word 2003

May 1st, 2009
Strange things mentioned in my previous post continue to happen. To the bug successfully fixed in the Office Live Add-in on Excel 2007, there's added a nasty and so far no-solution problem with the same add-in, this time on Word 2003......Read the rest of this entry

Office Alarm – Excel experienced a serious problem with the ‘microsoft office live add-in’

April 30th, 2009
Strange things started happening around us. Swine flu added to the global economic crisis, and we have problems with Office 2007 and the Office Live Add-in added to our pre-release testing for compatibility with the recently released Office Service Pack 2. The fact of the matter is that......Read the rest of this entry

Hint: How to completely reset Outlook regions

April 29th, 2009
When Outlook is closing, Add-in Express saves the state of all regions embedded into Outlook, namely their position (if drag-and-drop is turned on), state (regions can be minimized or entirely hidden) and size (if resizing is allowed). We implemented this feature just to give end-users the utmost comfort when working with Outlook regions......Read the rest of this entry

Complete review – Advanced Outlook Regions, part 4

April 29th, 2009
In version 2009 of Add-in Express, a new property appears - RestoreFromMinimizedState. Now I will show you its behavior. Let's say, we have a minimized by default region......Read the rest of this entry

Complete review – Advanced Outlook Regions, part 3

April 22nd, 2009
Part 2 of the Advanced Outlook Regions series, which focused on Outlook Explorer and Inspector regions, ended with the promise that there would be no pictures in the upcoming post, instead it would touch on rather unobvious, rarely used, but highly interesting stuff. Well, the first thing that I'd like to start with is cached instancing......Read the rest of this entry

Complete review – Advanced Outlook Regions, part 2

April 15th, 2009
My previous post was about what the Advanced Outlook Regions really are. And now I will show you all possible regions for two main Outlook windows - Explorers and Inspectors. In this post there are a lot of pictures and little text. As usually, all the forms that I am going to demonstrate do not have a single control......Read the rest of this entry
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