‘Video HowTo samples’ category archive
Video: Internet Explorer bar UI synchronization
Ty Anderson | August 26th, 2011
Internet Explorer implements that all-too-common tab interface. Each tab contains a web page that could be closely related to something in another open tab...or it could be something different entirely. Users open lots of pages at a time... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Creating managed Excel UDFs – XLL based user-defined functions
Ty Anderson | August 4th, 2011
Creating custom User Defined Functions (UDFs) is one of the most popular reasons to build an Excel add-in. Add-in Express for Office and .NET supports two methods for building custom UDFs... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Extending Business Contact Manager
Ty Anderson | July 20th, 2011
Business Contact Manager (BCM) is Microsoft's attempt to a nice CRM tool to the small and medium-sized business market. It has its pros and cons but overall, I think they succeeded. Business Contact Manager resides within Microsoft Outlook, which makes perfect sense. Using BCM, users can seamlessly track leads, projects, employees, marketing campaigns and more... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Handling Office keyboard shortcuts
Ty Anderson | June 22nd, 2011
For almost every menu and/or Ribbon command in Microsoft Office, there is a keyboard shortcut for it. These shortcuts allow you to quickly and easy execute a command with a key stroke that might take several clicks of the mouse... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Localizing your Office COM add-in
Ty Anderson | June 15th, 2011
Internet Explorer is the world's most popular browser which makes it a nice target for custom solutions. Using Add-in Express helps you build Office COM Add-ins that your users love. As a result, you might be looking to expand to different markets… markets that probably do not speak you language. As a result, you are looking to build a localized version or versions of your add-in... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Developing Internet Explorer extensions, end-to-end demo
Ty Anderson | June 13th, 2011
Internet Explorer is the world's most popular browser which makes it a nice target for custom solutions. Microsoft provides an IE SDK that attempts to provide you with guidance on how to build custom toolbars, menus, side bars, etc. The problem is that this SDK leaves you alone to fall into the potential pitfalls and doesn’t lend you a helping hand
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Video HowTo: Advanced Word task panes – Top task pane (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | May 6th, 2011
The next pane of the Word task panes series that we are going to explore is the Advanced Top Task Pane. We are going to create a new COM add-in that will work in Microsoft Word 2000 - 2010, add a custom task pane and bind it to the top position... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Advanced Word task panes – Left task pane (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 29th, 2011
To continue with a series of short video how-to demonstrating the capabilities of Add-in Express in customizing the Microsoft Office UI, we will explorer the Advanced Word Task Panes... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – InspectorRegion region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 22nd, 2011
Today we are going to review the potential of InspectorRegion. Using this region you can add your own form underneath the main page of any Outlook Inspector window, such as mail, contact, appointment etc. Let's see how to create it... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Extend Outlook UI with advanced version neutral regions
Ty Anderson | April 18th, 2011
Office users love Microsoft Outlook. But users often have unique productivity methods that often don't quite fit within Outlook's out of the box features set. Thinks to Add-in Express this isn't a problem! Developers can extend the Outlook user interface by implementing something known as version neutral regions... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – BottomSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 15th, 2011
Today we are going to shed some light on the capabilities of the BottomSubpane region. We will create our own advanced region and host it to the bottom part of the Inspector window that contains mail items... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express takes your Outlook solutions to another level
Ty Anderson | April 15th, 2011
If Microsoft Office is a productivity suite, then Microsoft Outlook is the foundation of Office productivity. Office users spend a significant portion of their day using the programs to do things like manage emails, keep an appointment calendar, maintain a contacts database, track To-Do lists etc... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – RightSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 8th, 2011
The next Inspector region that we target is RightSubpane. This region is located on the right of the Inspector window, it can be bound to any Outlook items such as mail, task, contact, etc... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – TopSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 1st, 2011
In today's part of this short video how-to series covering Inspector regions, we are going to explorer the capacities of the TopSubpane region... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – LeftSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 30th, 2011
In our todays' video example of customizing the Outlook Inspector window we are going to look into the capabilities of the LeftSubpane region... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – CompleteReplacement region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 25th, 2011
In version 6.4 of Add-in Express for Office and .net that we published just yesterday, a new Inspector region type is introduced - CompleteReplacement. I think it's a good idea to begin our inspector regions series with this region, it's always a fun to learn something new... Read the rest of this entry →
