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Why Add-in Express?
Microsoft gave us the term "Office Extensions". This term covers all the customization technologies provided for Microsoft Office applications.
The technologies are:
Add-in Express allows you to overcome the basic problem when customizing Microsoft Office 2007 - 2000 in .NET -
building your solutions into the Office application. Based on the true RAD paradigm, Add-in Express saves the time
that otherwise you would spend on research, prototyping, and debugging numerous issues of any of the above-said
technologies in all versions and updates of all Office applications. The issues include safe loading / unloading,
host application startup / shutdown, as well as user-interaction-related and deployment-related issues.
Add-in Express provides you with simple tools for creating version-neutral, secure, insolated, managed,
deployable, and updatable Office extensions.
- Managed - you develop them in every programming language available for Visual Studio .NET: VB. C#, C++.
See System Requirements
- Isolated - Add-in Express allows loading Office extensions into separate application domains.
So, they do not have a chance to break down other add-ins and the host application itself. See
How your Office extension loads into an Office application.
- Version-neutral - the Add-in Express programming model and its core are version-neutral.
It gives you a chance to develop one Office extension for all available Office versions, from 2000 to the newest 2010.
More about building version-independent Office plug-ins and
Choosing interop assemblies.
- Deployable and updatable Office Extensions - Add-in Express automatically supplies you with a setup
project making your solution ready-to-deploy. The start-up and deployment model used by Add-in Express allows updating
your solutions at run-time See also
Deploying Add-in Express projects.
What's new in Add-in Express 2010
Supported IDEs:
Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010
Supported languages:
Visual Basic (VB.NET), C#, C++.NET
Supported applications:
Microsoft Office Suites 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010 including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access,
Visio, Project, MapPoint, FrontPage, Publisher and InfoPath
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