Posts Tagged ‘RTD servers’
How to use Evaluate to invoke an Excel UDF programmatically
Andrei Smolin | October 3rd, 2011
Whether your UDF is a VBA macro or an Excel Automation add-in or even an XLL add-in, you can invoke any method it provides to the user. To do this, you need to get or create an Excel.Application object and invoke ExcelApp.Evaluate() supplying it with the correct syntax for your method and its parameters.... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Building an Excel RTD server
Ty Anderson | September 8th, 2011
Using Add-in Express you have the tools you need to rapidly start building a Real-Time Data (RTD) Server for Excel. This video shows you to use ADX to build a simple RTD... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating integrated Office solutions with Add-in Express
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 7th, 2011
Add-in Express enables you as a developer to quickly and easily create, not just MS Office add-ins but also Excel XLL add-ins, Excel Real-time data (RTD) servers and smart tags. In this post I'll demonstrate how you could include all this functionality in one Visual Studio project. Start by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio... Read the rest of this entry →
Redeploying Office extensions via ClickTwice
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | March 1st, 2011
This is the final part of the series that describes all possible ways of deploying your Add-in Express-based Office extensions. I recommend that you begin from the very beginning: Step-by-step deployment of Office extensions: Overview. Or, if you are interested only in ClickTwice :) deployment, you can start right away with Deploying Office extensions via ClickTwice :)... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying Office extensions via ClickTwice
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 28th, 2011
Part 7 of the deployment series explains how you can use your favorite installer software to deploy your Office extensions over the web; this is the essence of ClickTwice :). If you didn’t read the previous parts of the series, I'd advise that you start with Part 1 - a brief overview of the available deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via Group Policy
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 25th, 2011
This is part 6 of the deployment series that targets corporate deployment techniques and provides step-by-step instructions for deploying your per-machine Office extensions via Group Policy. I recommend that you start with reading Part 1 that gives a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Redeploying per-user Office extensions via ClickOnce
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 24th, 2011
This is part 5 of the series of articles which describes all possible ways of deploying your Office extensions based on Add-in Express. I recommend you starting from the very beginning: Step-by-step deployment of Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via ClickOnce
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 24th, 2011
In part 4 of the deployment series I will show you how to deploy your per-user Office extension using ClickOnce. Before we proceed, I recommend that you read Part 1 for a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-machine Office extensions via an MSI installer
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
This is part 3 of the deployment series that provides step-by-step instructions for deploying your per-machine Office extensions via an MSI installer. I recommend that you start with reading Part 1 that gives a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via an MSI installer
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
This is part 2 of the series that covers all possible ways of deploying Add-in Express based Office extensions. Part 1 provided a brief overview of the available deployment technologies and now we are going to have a close look into deploying per-user Office extensions via an MSI installer... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying Office extensions – step-by-step guide
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
The table below gives an overview of the main features supported by the above mentioned technologies that you can use for deploying your Add-in Express based Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real-Time Data server: Utility functions; building help, part 12
Maurice Calvert | January 27th, 2011
Hoping again for re-use, I created a little utility library which contains some general-purpose functions that you may find useful... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server: Changing the Excel RTD Throttle Interval, part 11
Maurice Calvert | January 26th, 2011
By default, Excel won't call RefreshData more often than every 2 seconds (the Throttle Interval). For financial data that's arriving fast and furiously, this is reasonable, but for GeodesiX it makes the interface seem rather slow... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server for Excel: Creating the Setup project, part 10
Maurice Calvert | January 25th, 2011
In part 2: Avoiding VSTO, I lauded Add-in Express for having such an easy interface to create a Steup Project. I stand by what I said, but GeodesiX goes a fair bit further than just implementing a few Excel UDFs. The problem that have to address is... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server: Embedding a GoogleMap page in an Excel Task Pane, part 9
Maurice Calvert | January 24th, 2011
Another short subject, but worthy of a few remarks. The GoogleMaps taskpane is implemented in a separate project, hopefully re-usable. The task pane is created in Geodesix.AddinModule #27#, which also contains the event handlers
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Building a Real Time Data for Excel: Avoiding Application Domain misery, part 8
Maurice Calvert | January 21st, 2011
This is a short but important subject (assuming you're using Addin Express for Office and .net). There are 3 types of Add-in Express module used in Geodesix
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