Free development components: advanced search in IE,
accessing MAPI Store events and data

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Free tools and components

On this page you will find free programming tools and utilities that we use daily in our work. Hopefully they will help in your development as well. These tools will help you with accessing low-level features of Extended MAPI and programming application-based extensions for Microsoft Office in Delphi Prism.

Create VSTO-based Office add-ins in Delphi Prism

VSTO Support for Delphi Prism

With this free wizard for Visual Studio 2008, you can develop COM add-ins for Microsoft Office in VSTO using Delphi Prism exactly in the same way as you do it in VB.NET and C#. With the VSTO Support for Delphi Prism you can benefit from all Visual Studio Tools for Office features including the VSTO programming and deployment models, the Ribbon UI designer, MSI-based setup projects, Outlook form regions and Office Task panes. The wizard works for Visual Studio 2008 Professional or Team System with VSTO and Delphi Prism installed. All solutions are generated for the highest Office version installed on your PC.

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Access MAPI Store events

MAPI Store Accessor

The MAPI Store Accessor is a free .NET tool that helps you with accessing low-level features provided by Extended MAPI in Windows Forms applications as well as in .NET-based Outlook COM add-ins. With the Accessor, you get the NewMail event, as well as all others at first hand. This tool allows you to subscribe to any or all MAPI notifications in either synchronous or asynchronous mode. The MAPI Store Accessor works with all Microsoft Outlook versions, including 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and 2000.

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Free development tools

And here are two more free tools for Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer developers. If you need to quickly find names and IDs of all command bar and controls or perform advanced search in Internet Explorer, take a minute to download them.

Advanced Search add-on for IE6, IE7 and IE8

Advanced Search for Internet Explorer

This free add-on for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and IE 8 allows you to find and highlight searches across all windows and tabs of the current IE process. This IE add-on allows searching across page content and html code, including all meta tags, it highlights all found items and provides quick navigation among them. The Advanced Search add-on also demonstrates features of Add-in Express for IE, development toolkit for building IE add-ons. Currently the Advanced Search for Internet Explorer add-on is delivered as source code only.

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Free component to quickly find commandbar controls IDs

Built-in Control Scanner

This is a must-have tool for Office add-in developers. With Built-in Control Scanner you can easily find command bar names and built-in controls IDs. The names and IDs form the base for customizing any command bar-enabled Office application. Say, you need to know a built-in control ID in order to handle its events, to place your custom command bar button before or after this or that built-in controls.

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