Archive for the ‘Add-in Express for Office and VSTO’ Category
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. ...
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Delphi, Deployment, Office, Visual Studio, VSTO
Posted in Add-in Express 2010, Add-in Express for Office and .net, Add-in Express for Office and VCL, Add-in Express for Office and VSTO | 5 Comments »
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....
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Delphi, Office, Outlook, Visual Studio, VSTO
Posted in Add-in Express 2010, Add-in Express for Office and .net, Add-in Express for Office and VCL, Add-in Express for Office and VSTO | 24 Comments »
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...
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Outlook, Outlook regions, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO
Posted in Add-in Express for Office and VSTO, Video HowTo samples | No Comments »
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....
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Tags: .NET, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO
Posted in Add-in Express for Office and VSTO, Video HowTo samples | 1 Comment »
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....
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Tags: .NET, Delphi, IE add-ons, Office, Outlook Express
Posted in Add-in Express for Internet Explorer, Add-in Express for Office and .net, Add-in Express for Office and VCL, Add-in Express for Office and VSTO, Add-in Express for Outlook Express | No Comments »
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. ...
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Tags: .NET, COM add-ins, Delphi, IE add-ons, Office, Visual Studio, VSTO
Posted in Add-in Express 2010, Add-in Express for Internet Explorer, Add-in Express for Office and .net, Add-in Express for Office and VCL, Add-in Express for Office and VSTO | No Comments »
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......
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Tags: .NET, C#, COM add-ins, Delphi, Office, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO, Word
Posted in Add-in Express 2009, Add-in Express for Office and .net, Add-in Express for Office and VCL, Add-in Express for Office and VSTO | No Comments »
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......
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Tags: .NET, C#, COM add-ins, Excel, Office, VB.NET, Visual Studio
Posted in Add-in Express 2009, Add-in Express for Office and .net, Add-in Express for Office and VCL, Add-in Express for Office and VSTO | 4 Comments »
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......
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Tags: .NET, C#, Delphi, Excel, Outlook, Outlook regions, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO
Posted in Add-in Express 2009, Add-in Express for Office and .net, Add-in Express for Office and VCL, Add-in Express for Office and VSTO | No Comments »
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......
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Tags: .NET, C#, Delphi, Excel, Outlook, Outlook regions, task panes, VB.NET, VSTO
Posted in Add-in Express 2009, Add-in Express for Office and .net, Add-in Express for Office and VCL, Add-in Express for Office and VSTO | No Comments »
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......
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Tags: .NET, C#, Delphi, Office, Outlook, Outlook regions, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO
Posted in Add-in Express 2009, Add-in Express for Office and .net, Add-in Express for Office and VCL, Add-in Express for Office and VSTO | No Comments »
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......
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Tags: .NET, C#, Delphi, Outlook, Outlook regions, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO
Posted in Add-in Express 2009, Add-in Express for Office and .net, Add-in Express for Office and VCL, Add-in Express for Office and VSTO | No Comments »