Posts Tagged ‘C#’
March 2nd, 2010
Many of you are likely to have encountered the phrase DLL Hell in the glory days of the COM technology. Of course, with the arrival of the .NET era, developers got rid of this headache. But even these days COM is actively used in many applications. Our Outlook Security Manager is a vivid example of the COM technology usage in respect to applications, or add-ins;...
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Tags: .NET, C#, COM add-ins, Deployment, Outlook, Outlook security, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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December 5th, 2009
This sample starts the new series of visual HowTo. We thought it would be a good idea to give you a sort of hands on training with Add-in Express. Today we are going to look at one of the most frequent tasks, creating a COM add-in for Microsoft Office....
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Tags: .NET, C#, COM add-ins, Excel, Office, Office 2007 Ribbon, task panes, VB.NET, Visual Studio
Posted in Add-in Express for Office and .net, Video HowTo samples | 2 Comments »
November 6th, 2009
In the previous sample, I showed how to get the PR_ATTACH_SIZE Extended MAPI property that returns the size of an Attachment object. To be more precise, it returns the size of the attached file and the size of some internal info. In most cases that makeweight does not matter at all...
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Tags: .NET, C#, COM add-ins, MAPI, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio
Posted in Add-in Express for Office and .net, HowTo samples | No Comments »
June 26th, 2009
In general, you can have IE add-ons interact with standalone applications by using Windows messages and the Shared (static in C#) GetModulesByTypeName method of the AddinExpress.IE.ADXIEModule class. There is just one limitation: both processes (IE with your add-on and standalone application) must be running in the same Integrity Level....
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Tags: .NET, C#, IE add-ons, VB.NET, Visual Studio
Posted in Add-in Express for Internet Explorer, HowTo samples | No Comments »
June 19th, 2009
Nearly every software has some settings. An Internet Explorer plug-in is not an exception. The IE plug-in settings can be stored either in a file or in a registry branch, all is simple and transparent about this. But how to ensure the settings synchronization for all active instances of the IE plug-in in all running Internet Explorer processes?...
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Tags: .NET, C#, IE add-ons, VB.NET, Visual Studio
Posted in Add-in Express for Internet Explorer, HowTo samples | 2 Comments »
June 12th, 2009
The Protected Mode feature was introduced in Internet Explorer 7 and continues to exist in Internet Explorer 8. Nearly at the same time when the Protected Mode feature appeared Microsoft introduced Protected Mode API for developers to use this feature. All API functions are implemented in the Add-in Express for Internet Explorer and .net product and today we are going to look into their capabilities......
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Tags: .NET, C#, IE add-ons, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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May 23rd, 2009
In one of my previous HowTo samples I showed you how to use the Microsoft Word Object Model capabilities for spell checking. Today we will look at one more ability of Microsoft Word, namely the capabilities of its dictionary, more specifically synonyms and antonyms. We will need the SynonymInfo object and SynonymList and AntonymList properties......
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Tags: .NET, C#, VB.NET, Visual Studio, Word
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May 8th, 2009
It would be true to say "get" rather than "convert". There could be only one right way – to use Extended MAPI. Another method is described in the MSDN article: How to retrieve alternate e-mail addresses by using CDO, but we will not see into this approach, because CDO is optional in Outlook 2003 and is absent completely in Outlook 2007....
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Tags: .NET, C#, COM add-ins, MAPI, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio
Posted in Add-in Express for Office and .net, HowTo samples | 4 Comments »
May 1st, 2009
In Office 2007 there are 3 available color schemes – Black, Blue and Silver. The background of controls in command bars and ribbon tabs is changed by Office automatically. Do you want to try changing the background of your Outlook forms and Excel task panes when the MS Office color scheme is changed?...
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Tags: .NET, C#, COM add-ins, Excel, Outlook, Outlook regions, task panes, VB.NET, Visual Studio
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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
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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
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