Posts Tagged ‘Visual Studio’
Programming for Outlook Business Contact Manager (BCM)
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 19th, 2011
Microsoft Business Contact Manager or BCM is a great way for mostly small businesses to manage their business contacts, sales leads and projects. The beauty of BCM for MS Office developers is the fact that it is entirely contained within MS Outlook; giving the user a seamlessly integrated experience with Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – BottomSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 15th, 2011
Today we are going to shed some light on the capabilities of the BottomSubpane region. We will create our own advanced region and host it to the bottom part of the Inspector window that contains mail items... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express takes your Outlook solutions to another level
Ty Anderson | April 15th, 2011
If Microsoft Office is a productivity suite, then Microsoft Outlook is the foundation of Office productivity. Office users spend a significant portion of their day using the programs to do things like manage emails, keep an appointment calendar, maintain a contacts database, track To-Do lists etc... Read the rest of this entry →
Express help for busy developers
Eric Legault | April 15th, 2011
If you haven't been to our website in a while (or been following us on Twitter), you may have missed a very important resource that we published this year: our new Add-in Express Learning Center. Think of these pages as your entry point to Add-in Express development - a one-stop-shop to help you quickly locate technical articles... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – RightSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 8th, 2011
The next Inspector region that we target is RightSubpane. This region is located on the right of the Inspector window, it can be bound to any Outlook items such as mail, task, contact, etc... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – TopSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 1st, 2011
In today's part of this short video how-to series covering Inspector regions, we are going to explorer the capacities of the TopSubpane region... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – LeftSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 30th, 2011
In our todays' video example of customizing the Outlook Inspector window we are going to look into the capabilities of the LeftSubpane region... Read the rest of this entry →
How to install multiple Office add-ins using one setup project
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 30th, 2011
In today's post I'll demonstrate how you can install multiple Add-in Express Microsoft Office Add-ins without building multiple setup programs. Start by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio
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Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – CompleteReplacement region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 25th, 2011
In version 6.4 of Add-in Express for Office and .net that we published just yesterday, a new Inspector region type is introduced - CompleteReplacement. I think it's a good idea to begin our inspector regions series with this region, it's always a fun to learn something new... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express visual designers – skip coding your custom Office components, simply draw them!
Ty Anderson | March 25th, 2011
Office developers like to build solutions of all shapes and sizes. And if we only compare building of Office solutions to building buildings, we'll see that the fun part is the stuff you can see like the doors and the windows the façade and the paint – all the things that are visually appealing, the things that your users notice. The less desirable part of buildings is the stuff you don't see, perhaps the plumbing... Read the rest of this entry →
How to check programmatically if the user is editing an Excel cell
Andrei Smolin | March 23rd, 2011
Here's a typical scenario: your code modifying a workbook fails because the user types something into a cell. Now how to determine that Excel is in the edit mode?
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How to customize Office 2010 and 2007 Ribbon with your own tabs or controls
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 22nd, 2011
In today's post I'll demonstrate how you can insert your own ribbon tabs (for Office 2007-2010) and controls (for Office 2000-2003) before or after Office's built-in tabs or controls. I'll also show you how you can add an existing built-in Office control to your own ribbon tab... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – DockBottom region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 18th, 2011
Now the turn has come to the last of the Explorer regions, and today we are going to create the DockBottom region. This specific region, supported by Outlook 2007 and 2010, resides underneath the Navigation Pane, Outlook super grid pane (list of items) and To-Do bar... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create advanced view and form regions with Add-in Express Regions for Microsoft Outlook and VSTO
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 17th, 2011
In this post I'll introduce you to the new Add-in Express Regions for Microsoft Outlook and Visual Studio Tools for Office. To get started, create a new Outlook 2010 Add-in project in Visual Studio 2010... Read the rest of this entry →
Announcing our newest product: Add-in Express Regions for Microsoft Outlook and VSTO
Eric Legault | March 16th, 2011
We're very pleased to announce the availability of the newest addition to our powerhouse line-up of leading edge, RAD development tools for building Microsoft Office solutions with Visual Studio: Add-in Express Regions for Microsoft Outlook and VSTO!
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Video: Add-in Express Regions for Outlook and VSTO
Ty Anderson | March 16th, 2011
A couple of weeks ago Eric Legault made mention of the new Add-in Express product known as Add-in Express Regions for Outlook and VSTO. I've had the pleasure of working with this new product for several weeks and I think it is a winner... Read the rest of this entry →