Office add-in localization: ribbon and commandbar controls, task panes etc.

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. In this post you will find some VB.NET and Delphi code samples of localizing your COM add-ins.

Create Office add-ins: ribbons, toolbars, task panes, menus etc.

How to get started with COM add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007 - 2000. Learn about object models, typical issues with Office add-ins, add-in deployment, shims, ClickOnce and more.

Customize Office toolbars, ribbons, task panes on RO Chrome

Special components for Office 2000 - 2007 customization. Customize the Office UI including toolbars, menus, sub-menus, ribbons, task panes and property pages.

Develop MS Office add-ins, smart tags, RTD servers on RO Chrome

Security and deployment, RAD modules and visual designers for Microsoft Office plug-ins. Adding toolbars, customizing Office Ribbon, Quick Access toolbar and Office Menu, creating task panes and more.

Create Microsoft Office extensions using RemObjects Chrome

Create secure, deployable, version-independent Microsoft Office extensions on RO Chrome for Visual Studio. Use RAD modules, designers and components to develop application-level COM add-ins, smart tags, RTD servers and user-defined functions.

Why Outlook is not closing when I run my add-in?

What to do if your add-in hangs Outlook and Outlook doesn’t close. Possible reasons and workarounds. Code samples in VB 6, VB.NET.

Shims, Loader and Add-in Express .NET Setup projects

Moving your add-in projects from C++ shims to Add-in Express .NET Loader. Get your add-in registered in the host application automatically.

Add-in Express VCL future

The prospects of Add-in Express VCL.

Setup project events for add-in solutions based on Add-in Express

Booker Prize. Also, all about setup projects based on Add-in Express. There are several custom events that we can use for…

Add new items to your add-in project

Here I will show you what is included in Add-in Express solutions. Attention, GUIDs are everywhere! Also I will speak about things that can be added to the add-in project, and tell you what should be done to retire right now.

Creating new Add-in Express projects in Visual Studio .NET

What are the shims and is it necessary to sign add-in projects with strong names? In general, I strongly recommend always including shims in your add-in projects if you have C++ in your Visual Studio .NET.

The King is dead. Long live the King!

Add-in Express .NET will support RemObjects Chrome, a new Object Pascal generation for .NET and Mono

Tell your add-in what its host application is

The first trick in the development of COM add-ins based on Add-in Express (ADX) that I want to show you here is quite trivial. I won’t give a single line of code, just a few paragraphs of my contemplations. The matter concerns the following.

Hello, blog!

It seems the time has come to make up a blog devoted to our Add-in Express. And I suspect it is me who will have to do it. Here you will be able to find…