Posts Tagged ‘COM add-ins’
Video HowTo: Create advanced view and form regions in Outlook (Delphi)
May 21st, 2010 by Dmitry Kostochko
Today we are going to build an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2000-2007, in which we create an advanced view region for the Outlook Explorer window and an advanced form region for the Outlook Inspector window... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 and Office add-ins: Getting started
May 14th, 2010 by Pieter van der Westhuizen
I have used Add-in Express before and can honestly say that if you want to develop an MS Office add-in this product is definitely a worthwhile investment. In this post I’ll explain the benefits and some of the key features of Add-in Express 2010 for Office and .net when creating a small Office Add-in that is shared among Excel, Word and Outlook.... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 for Office: new GUI designers and the new guy
May 14th, 2010 by Pieter van der Westhuizen
Firstly, let me introduce myself, I’m Pieter van der Westhuizen, a recent addition to the Add-in Express team and I will be your host on a series of blog posts covering various aspects of the Add-in Express product range. As a keen user of the Add-in Express tools, this is an ideal opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with like-minded users... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2010 RTM and Visual Studio 2010 RTM fully supported by Add-in Express 2010 Beta 2
May 13th, 2010 by Eugene Starostin
I know for sure that quite an impressive number of our customers (about 2 thousands) are already using the previous beta to their utmost. To all of them as well as to those of you who received the keys but haven't thought yet about the compatibility with Office 2010, I recommend installing beta 2. And here is why... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Develop Outlook add-in with custom command bars and ribbon tabs (Delphi)
May 7th, 2010 by Dmitry Kostochko
Today we'll develop an add-in for Outlook 2000 - 2007 in Delphi 2009. We are not going to create anything super complex, I will just show you how to work with our visual components at design-time and how it looks in Outlook at run-time... Read the rest of this entry →
How to show an Outlook.MailItem in PrintPreview mode programmatically
May 6th, 2010 by Andrei Smolin
The Outlook object model doesn't allow showing the PrintPreview dialog. To show it in all Outlook versions, you need to call the Execute method of a corresponding command bar button. Also, in Outlook 2007 and 2010, you can invoke the corresponding Ribbon command using the ExecuteMso method of the Office.CommandBars class. Let's see how to do this... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook 2010 Fast Shutdown feature
May 4th, 2010 by Dmitry Kostochko
Microsoft first attempted to fix at one fling all bugs of all programs and programmers that use the Outlook Object Model when releasing SP2 for Outlook 2007. That attempt was not very successful, and Outlook 2007 SP2 may hang in memory when shutting down the same as all previous Outlook versions. Their second attempt appeared to be much more successful... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Support Office command bars and Ribbon UI in one add-in project (VB.NET)
April 30th, 2010 by Dmitry Kostochko
Add-in Express supports creating COM add-ins for Office 2000 - 2010. Office 2000, XP and 2003 have a traditional command bar-based user interface, while Office 2007 is partially and Office 2010 is fully ribbonized. "How is it possible to support both types of user interfaces in one COM add-in project?" you may ask... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 for Office becomes free for Standard packages
April 29th, 2010 by Eugene Starostin
Until now only subscribers of Professional and Premium packages could be sure of their cloudless future with Add-in Express and confident that their Add-in Express based extensions would work consistently with Office 2010, 32- and 64-bit (naturally, the latter is only for .net). "Why so?" you may ask... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Creating an XLL add-in for Excel 2000 – 2007 (VB.NET)
April 23rd, 2010 by Dmitry Kostochko
Looking at the list of already published video howto samples, I just realized that most of them target Outlook. This is no wonder at all, because every MS Office developers would confirm that Outlook is the most in-demand application from the Microsoft Office family... Read the rest of this entry →
Just two screenshots
April 22nd, 2010 by Eugene Starostin
Do not look for this in beta 1! :)... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment: Managing updates, part 3
April 16th, 2010 by Sergey Grischenko
This is the third and the final part of my series about ClickTwice - MSI-based web deployment technology introduced in Add-in Express 2010. In the first article of this series I covered the basics of our MSI-based web deployment, and gave you a step-by-step guidance on creating a new setup project. And now we are going to have a close look at managing your application updates... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment: Publishing the application, part 2
April 15th, 2010 by Sergey Grischenko
In the first article of this series I covered the basics of our Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment, also known as ClickTwice :) and gave you a step-by-step guidance on creating a new setup project. Now we are going to look at the main aspects of publishing the application using this deployment technology... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment – ClickTwice :)
April 9th, 2010 by Sergey Grischenko
Add-in Express provides two basic strategies for deploying its projects: publishing an application via the ClickOnce technology, or deploying it with a traditional setup using the Windows Installer. In case of ClickOnce deployment, your application is published to some centralized location, e.g. a network share, and the user installs it from that location... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Resize Advanced Task Pane programmatically (VB.NET)
April 9th, 2010 by Dmitry Kostochko
To resize your custom Office task pane, you need to use the trivial Width and Height properties of the particular instance of your task pane. There is just one important thing - the Splitter property should be set to None... Read the rest of this entry →
Modifying an existing setup project to support Office 2010, 32-bit and 64-bit, in Add-in Express 2010
April 8th, 2010 by Andrei Smolin
This is just a list of things you need to change in your existing Add-in Express Loader-based COM Add-in project (built with Add-in Express 2009 or earlier) for your add-in to support both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Office 2010... Read the rest of this entry →
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