http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog All about developing COM add-ins, smart tags and RTD servers in Visual Studio .NET, VSTO and Delphi + Add-in Express Tue, 13 May 2008 18:49:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes you need to process incoming e-mails and meeting requests in order to retrieve sender data for your CRM, to save attachments to your Document Management System (DMS), to process automated e-mails, or to convert selected incoming messages to plain text. Whenever you need to track incoming e-mails, you face ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2008/04/25/newmail-itemadd-outlook-events/ To localize your COM add-in, you need to know the language settings of the Office application (host application) that the add-in is currently loaded in. This is possible through the Application.LanguageSettings property provided by every Office application. This property returns a COM class (of the LanguageSettings type) which provides the ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2008/04/19/localization-office-addin-ribbon-commandbar/ In this post, I will show you how to create a custom Outlook home folder page in VBScript and in .NET (VB, C#, C++). In fact, there are 2 ways of customizing Outlook Today: It can be modified by the user, you just need to open Outlook help (see the ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2008/04/11/outlook-today-page-customize-programmatically/ MAPI (also known as Extended MAPI) is a powerful and complex COM-based API developed for creating mail-enabled applications. Microsoft Outlook and Exchange are among the most popular applications utilizing MAPI. Add-in Express provides Outlook developers with a free component, MAPI Store Accessor, that hides MAPI complexities to provide developers with ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2008/04/07/how-to-get-access-to-hidden-outlook-items-via-extended-mapi/ I love small plug-ins. They are simple, quick, and reasonably priced. There is a small add-in, which I love with all my heart. It is Template Phrases for Outlook. I want to walk you through this Outlook plug-in, show you how it works and also how to create such add-ins. You ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2008/03/28/build-outlook-add-in-in-net-to-manage-outlook-templates-signatures/ To make your controls look like Office ones isn’t a simple task. When Office developers show .NET controls in their add-ins or standalone applications, they have to customize controls in order to conform to Office color styles. The common question in our support flow is “Do you have Office colors, ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2008/03/21/custom-office-controls-colors/ Microsoft Office 2007 allows XML-based customizations for its Ribbon UI (user-interface). To achieve this, you, the developer, need to generate a string that contains a markup specifying custom ribbon controls and their properties as well as names of event handler procedures for these controls. Then, in an appropriate moment, you ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2008/03/14/office-2007-ribbon-ui/ When I started developing IE add-ons I found out that Internet Explorer might generate a huge number of threads and processes and that my add-on is created in each of those threads. However, my plug-in contains data that should be accessible for all instances of the IE add-on. In ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2008/03/14/ie-addons-toolbars-menus-programming/ On one of our test PC (a virtual one) with VS 2008 Beta2 installed, we got the following problem. If any of Add-in Express for .NET product packages are installed, uninstalled and re-installed for the second time, the "Error 2908" message is shown a tremendous number of times. It is ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2007/11/12/windows-installer-error-2908/ Whenever you send e-mail messages in Microsoft Access, you get Outlook security warnings like A program is trying to automatically send email…: To get rid of such security warning messages, use the Outlook Security Manager that effectively disables / enables the Outlook Security. With the ActiveX edition of this product ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2007/09/12/disable-outlook-security-warnings-sending-email-messages-in-access/ Starting from version 2000, Office applications allow COM add-ins to customize their user interface with toolbars, menus, context menus, ribbons, task panes etc. COM add-ins run within the process of their host application and use programmatic interfaces provided by the host in order to access currently open documents and modify ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2007/07/04/create-office-addins-ribbons-toolbars-task-panes-menus/ This post is the third part of my RemObjects Chrome and Add-in Express series. In part one I highlighted the key features of Add-in Express and showed how to get started with Outlook COM add-ins on RemObjects Chrome and Add-in Express. In part two, I explored such crucial for ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2007/04/30/customize-office-toolbars-ribbons-task-panes-on-ro-chrome/ In part one of the Add-in Express and RO Chrome series I explored the idea of Office application-level extensibility, highlighted the key features of Add-in Express and showed how to get started with Outlook COM add-ins on RemObjects Chrome and Add-in Express. In part two, I'll dig deeper into the ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2007/04/25/office-plugins-chrome/ Two of the most popular words in the Microsoft Office development globe right now are Office extensibility and application-level customization. These two features are a great way to get the most from Microsoft Office and build plugins that your customers long for. In this three post series, I'll be covering ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2007/04/24/create-microsoft-office-extensions-using-ro-chrome/ Here is a short answer: you should release all references to Outlook objects before your add-in is closed. For COM developers (VB 6) it means that you should set all your variables referring to Outlook objects to Nothing (it's a VB equivalent of Null, null or nil that are used in ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2006/08/17/outlook-not-closing/ Seems, not many people really understand shims. Hopefully, this message will help them to forget about shims at all. What is a shim? What is the Add-in Express .NET Loader? There must be some software located between Office applications that are COM applications and your add-ins that are .NET libraries. Otherwise, ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2006/08/04/shim-loader-mscoree/ Starting from version 2.3 Add-in Express integrates Microsoft Office PIAs into add-in solutions. Here I will try to set forth my point of view on using the Office Primary Interop Assemblies in our projects. Well, I’d like to note that Add-in Express is quite unobtrusive in this issue. You remember ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2006/03/01/add-in-express-net-and-microsoft-office-pias/ Today I’ve got seized by inspiration. Don’t know how to cope with it. Hey, somebody, stop me! :-) All in all, I’ve come to one of the key issues. What is the Office PIAs and what should we do with them? Ок, to start with, a few words about PIAs, ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2006/03/01/a-bit-about-microsoft-office-pias/ There is no doubt that everybody who hasn’t left Borland Delphi yet, should reflect on the matter. Borland guys decided to get rid of all their IDEs, including Delphi, C++ Builder, JBuilder, etc. Is it still worth relying on Delphi? This question was acute for us too. Are you are ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2006/02/24/add-in-express-vcl-future/ I have just thought, won’t I be awarded a Booker prize for the Blog devoted to our add-in Express? Sure, I won’t. Why then am I writing all this? Hmm… That is because I hate to write technical documentation. There’s no place there for my absolutely non-technical thoughts. And one ... http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2005/12/20/setup-project-events-for-add-in-solutions-based-on-add-in-express/