Building Microsoft Office add-in / plug-in in Delphi

Add-in Express™
for Microsoft® Office and Delphi® VCL

Add-in Express feature matrix

Add-in Express for Office and Delphi VCL is sold on a subscription basis. There are three subscriptions, Standard, Professional and Premium. Each subscription includes a developer license of Add-in Express, but different support and maintenance options. In the table below, you will find a complete list of features and services included with each subscription.

Add-in Express Subscriptions

Feature List

Standard

Professional

Premium

Environment

Supported Application

Microsoft Office 2000: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, FrontPage

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Microsoft Office 2002 (XP): Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, FrontPage, MapPoint, Visio

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Microsoft Office 2003: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, FrontPage, MapPoint, Visio, Publisher

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Microsoft Office 2007: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, MapPoint, Visio, Publisher, InfoPath

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Microsoft Office 2010: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, MapPoint, Visio, Publisher, InfoPath, OneNote

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Microsoft Office 2013: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio, Publisher, MapPoint, InfoPath, OneNote

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Microsoft Office 2016: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio, Publisher, OneNote

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Microsoft Office 2019: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio, Publisher

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Microsoft Office 2021: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio, Publisher

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Supported Microsoft Office Suites

Student, Home, Standard, Small Business, Professional, Professional Plus, Ultimate, Enterprise

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Supported Platforms

Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11

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Supported IDEs

Delphi XE2 - Delphi 11 Alexandria

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Microsoft Office COM Add-ins

Programming Model

Programming model and version-neutral run-time

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COM add-in specific visual designer

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Multi-hosted (shared) add-ins

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Application-level Customization

Visual designer for Office toolbars and menus

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Visual designer for the Ribbon UI

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Visual designer for the Office task panes

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Version-neutral advanced task panes for Excel

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Version-neutral advanced task panes for Word

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Version-neutral advanced task panes for PowerPoint

Application-level keyboard shortcuts

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Interception of any built-in toolbar controls

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Microsoft Outlook COM Add-ins

Standard Outlook Customization

Synchronous event helpers for Outlook object events

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Visual designer for Outlook Explorer and Inspector toolbars and menus

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Visual designer for the Ribbon UI

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Context sensitivity: binding toolbars, menus, ribbons and certain controls to folders, content types, form classes, contexts, etc.

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Visual designer for the Outlook Options dialog box and folder properties dialog boxes

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Visual designer for the Outlook Navigation Pane shortcuts

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Outlook Customization with Advanced View and Form Regions

Programming model and version-neutral run-time for Outlook customization with Advanced Form and View Regions

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Replacing Outlook views with view regions

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Inserting view regions into any Outlook views

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Embedding form regions into Outlook forms

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Adding regions to Reading Pane

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Placing regions on Navigation Pane

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Inserting regions into To-Do Bar

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Context sensitivity for view and form regions: binding regions to folders, content types, form classes, contexts, etc.

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Bypassing the Outlook E-mail Security Guard on Outlook 2000 - 2021 (see Security Manager for Microsoft Outlook, VCL edition is included)

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Microsoft Excel Plug-ins

COM Add-ins and Real-Time Data (RTD) Servers

Programming model, version-neutral run-time and visual designer for Excel COM add-ins

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Programming model and version-neutral run-time for Excel Real-Time Data (RTD) Servers

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Worksheet user-defined functions (UDFs)

Programming model and version-neutral run-time for Excel Automation add-ins

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Microsoft Office Smart Tags

Programming Model

Programming model and version-neutral run-time

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Support of Microsoft Smart Tag Library 1.0 and 2.0

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Smart Tag Customization

Run-time customization and visual designer for Microsoft Office Smart Tags

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Smart tag libraries: multiple recognizers in one project

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Licenses, Subscriptions and Software Maintenance

Developer license

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Minor updates subscription

1 year

1 year

1 year

Technical support service subscription

1 year

1 year

1 year

Source Code

Run-time source code

Run-time and design-time source code

New major versions subscription

1 year

1 year

Participation in beta programs subscription

1 year

1 year

Premium support service subscription


1 year

Escalation of your issues to core developers

1 year

Code reviewing subscription

1 year

Wide-ranging solution research service subscription



1 year

Prices

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