Posts Tagged ‘Ribbon’
Video: Add-in Express 2010 in-place GUI designers (on an example of Outlook add-in)
Ty Anderson | June 3rd, 2010
A key component of any Office add-in is the custom UI you develop for your users. And with Office, your add-in almost always requires a button or two in the Office menu or Ribbon. Add-in Express has long made it easy to build custom menus (aka CommandBars) and Ribbons... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express 2010 for Office architecture and programming model (for Outlook developers)
Ty Anderson | May 26th, 2010
The 2010 version of Add-in Express for Office and .NET will be released soon. As you might expect, the upcoming release will support the significant new features included with Office 2010 while also supporting previous versions of Office (all the way back to Office 2000)... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 for Office: new GUI designers and the new guy
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 14th, 2010
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 →
Video HowTo: Develop Outlook add-in with custom command bars and ribbon tabs (Delphi)
Dmitry Kostochko | May 7th, 2010
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
Andrei Smolin | May 6th, 2010
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 →
Video HowTo: Support Office command bars and Ribbon UI in one add-in project (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 30th, 2010
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 →
Just two screenshots
Eugene Starostin | April 22nd, 2010
Do not look for this in beta 1! :)... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Resize Advanced Task Pane programmatically (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 9th, 2010
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 →
Video HowTo: Intercept clicking on standard Office Ribbon controls (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 2nd, 2010
The answer is very simple indeed - you can use the ADXRibbonCommand component. The main difficulty is that you need to know IDs of standard controls. You can find a list of all available control IDs on the Microsoft web-site (see the link at the end of this post)... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Intercept clicking on Outlook buttons (VSTO)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 2nd, 2010
There is an easy solution: you can use the ADXRibbonCommand component. Basically there is only one thing that may present some difficulties to you - knowing the ID of the standard Control. However, you can visit Microsoft website to find the list of all available control IDs (please see the link below). Everything else is as easy as pie with Add-in Express... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Customize Fluent Ribbon UI in Outlook 2007 Inspectors (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 19th, 2010
Most of Office 2007 applications have the Fluent Ribbon UI. Today we will explore the most popular methods of customizing this part of the user interface on example of Outlook 2007 Inspectors... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Customize Fluent Ribbon UI in Outlook 2007 Inspectors (VSTO)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 19th, 2010
Most Office 2007 applications have the Fluent Ribbon UI. Today we will have a look at the most frequently used methods of modifying this part of user interface and we’ll take Outlook 2007 Inspectors as an example... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: ribbon controls and keyboard shortcuts, part 3
Andrei Smolin | February 4th, 2010
This is the 3rd and the final part of the video series covering the development of Outlook COM add-ins with Add-in Express. You already know how to create a new Outlook COM add-in project and add a custom Outlook commandbar (part 1). You also know how to add a custom pane to Outlook windows and access the Outlook object model (part 2)... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: Explorer and Inspector command bars, part 1
Andrei Smolin | February 1st, 2010
This is yet another series of visual HowTo that focus on Outlook COM add-ins. We will start from the very beginning and show you how to customize Outlook command bars and their buttons, Outlook menu and task panes, how to modify the Ribbon UI and handle events of controls... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Develop a plug-in for Outlook 2000 – 2007 in VB.NET
Dmitry Kostochko | December 11th, 2009
Outlook is one of the most in-demand applications of the Microsoft Office Suite. That is why it has always been a featured application for Add-in Express. In this video HowTo sample we will show you how to customize the Outlook GUI in minutes using the Add-in Express components and visual designers... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create an Excel COM add-in in Visual Studio
Dmitry Kostochko | 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.... Read the rest of this entry →