Add-in Express HOWTOs for Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint,
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Use visual RAD designers, secure and isolated components, deployable and updatable templates of this component set to program professional application-level extensions for Microsoft Office. With Add-in Express you can quickly create custom-tailored Outlook plug-ins and customize Excel workbooks, Word documents and InfoPath form templates.

Extensions: VSTO-based COM add-ins

Applications: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath

IDEs: VSTO 2005 SE, 2008; VB.NET, C#; Delphi Prism 2009

Overview Outlook-specific features

Get the best platform for extending Microsoft Office by using Add-in Express visual designers and components in combination with a perfect Delphi compiler. Build version-neutral, fast and easy deployable plug-ins with your own toolbars, menus, ribbons, form regions and task panes.

Extensions: COM add-ins, Outlook plug-ins, smart tags, RTD servers and UDF

Applications: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Visio, Access, MapPoint, InfoPath, Project and Publisher

IDEs: CodeGear Delphi 5 - 2010, Turbo Delphi Win32

Overview Customers say Add-in Express 2010 Blog

Use this visual tool to create thread-safe, secure, isolated, deployable and context-sensitive add-ons for Internet Explorer.

You don't need to follow a complicated IE SDK way with separate ActiveX-es, script files and registry keys. Instead, you use visual designers and components to customize the Internet Explorer interface with your own buttons, menu items, context menus, side-bars etc. You also get easy deployment and redeployment for your IE plug-ins.

IE versions: IE6, IE7, IE8 (32- and 64-bit)

IDEs: VS 2005, 2008, 2010; VB.NET, C#, managed C++; Delphi Prism 2009 and 2010

Overview Customers say Add-in Express 2010 Blog

Use this visual toolkit to quickly create secure, managed, isolated, deployable and version-neutral plug-ins for Outlook Express and Windows Mail.

With Add-in Express you get familiar interfaces and objects of Microsoft Office and Outlook, and in that way benefit from your experience in Outlook development. You also have powerful project templates, special components and visual designers for advanced customization of Outlook Express, its menus, toolbars and regions.

Applications: Outlook Express 6.x, Windows Mail 6.x

IDEs: VS 2003, 2005, 2008; VB.NET, C#, C++.NET

Overview Getting started

Use this tool to bypass the Outlook Object Model guard and to avoid security warnings in add-ins and applications that automate Microsoft Outlook.

Add just a line of code and get rid of messages like "a program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook" or "a program is trying to automatically send e-mail on your behalf".

3-in-1 solution: .NET, VCL and ActiveX editions come in one package.

Outlook versions: 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007

Languages: VB.NET, C#, C++.NET, J#, Delphi VCL 5 - 2010, VB6, C++, MFC/ATL, VBA, MS Office MailMerge

Overview Customers say Add-in Express 2010 Blog

This free .NET component will help you access low-level features provided by Extended MAPI in Windows Forms applications and in .NET-based Outlook COM add-ins. With the Accessor, you get the NewMail event, as well as all others at first hand.

Using the MAPI Store Accessor you can subscribe to any or all MAPI notifications in either synchronous or asynchronous mode.

Outlook versions: 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007

IDEs: VS 2005, 2008; VB.NET, C#, C++.NET

Overview Download

Use this free wizard for Visual Studio 2008 to develop VSTO-based extensions for Microsoft Office in Delphi Prism. It makes Office development in Delphi Prism absolutely the same as in Visual Basic .NET and C#.

Benefit from all VSTO features including the programming and deployment models, Ribbon UI designer, MSI-based setup projects, Outlook form regions and Office Task panes.

Office versions: 2003, 2007

Applications: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, InfoPath

Languages: Delphi Prism 2009

Overview Download

Use the innovative technology of Advanced Regions for customizing Outlook views and forms with custom .NET forms and any built-in or third-party controls.

You can use any .NET forms to customize Outlook views, e-mail, task and appointment windows, enhance Outlook bar and To-Do bar, Reading and Navigation panes.

Outlook versions: 2000, XP, 2003, 2007

IDEs: VS 2003, 2005, 2008; VB.NET, C#, C++.NET; Delphi Prism 2009; Delphi 5 - 2010, Turbo Delphi Win32

Included in packages of:

Add-in Express for .NET
Add-in Express for VSTO
Add-in Express for VCL

Toolbar Controls from Add-in Express allows you to create an enhanced GUI for your Microsoft Office solutions and extend Office toolbars, ribbons and windows in a more flexible manner than any other technologies.

Now you can place any .NET controls such as buttons, grids, tree views, labels, images, user controls and others onto toolbars of Office applications.

Applications: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint

IDEs: VS 2003, 2005, 2008; VB.NET, C#, C++.NET; Delphi Prism 2009

Included in packages of:

Add-in Express for .NET
Add-in Express for VSTO