Add-in Express components for developing
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Add-in Express components

Add-in Express provides many components. They are described on the following pages:

  • Ribbon UI components - you use these components to customize the Ribbon UI. Remember, the Ribbon was introduced in several Office 2007 applications, including the Inspector window of Outlook 2007
  • Commandbar UI components - conventional toolbars live in Office 2000 - 2003 and some Office 2007 applications (including the Explorer window of Outlook 2007); you use these components together with the Ribbon components above to create an add-in supporting all Office versions
  • Custom task panes in Office 2007 - 2010 - Office 2007 let us add custom panes to Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint; later on, they added Project 2010 to the list of applications supporting custom task panes.
  • Advanced Outlook regions and advanced Office task panes - Add-in Express provides the technology allowing creating custom regions in Outlook 2000 - 2010 and panes in Excel, Word and PowerPoint 2000 -2010.
  • Events - these are application-level events of all Office applications, events of Outlook items and collections, as well as keyboard shortcuts
  • Outlook UI components - Outlook shortcut links and Outlook property pages (shown, say, in properties of a folder
  • Custom Toolbar Controls - using .NET controls on command bars (not available for the Ribbon UI)





















































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