‘Add-in Express for Internet Explorer’ category archive

Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment: Managing updates, part 3

This is the third and the final part of my series about ClickTwice - MSI-based web deployment technology introduced in Add-in Express 2010. In the first article of this series I covered the basics of our MSI-based web deployment, and gave you a step-by-step guidance on creating a new setup project. And now we are going to have a close look at managing your application updates... Read the rest of this entry →

Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment: Publishing the application, part 2

In the first article of this series I covered the basics of our Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment, also known as ClickTwice :) and gave you a step-by-step guidance on creating a new setup project. Now we are going to look at the main aspects of publishing the application using this deployment technology... Read the rest of this entry →

Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment – ClickTwice :)

Add-in Express provides two basic strategies for deploying its projects: publishing an application via the ClickOnce technology, or deploying it with a traditional setup using the Windows Installer. In case of ClickOnce deployment, your application is published to some centralized location, e.g. a network share, and the user installs it from that location... Read the rest of this entry →

Technical Evangelist, Add-in Express 2010 for IE and news from “office” fields

This post is in fact a copy of the newsletter that I sent out yesterday. I have to admit the newsletter was quite a success and brought the results much better than I had hoped for :) But let's not put the cart before the horse, first comes a story... Read the rest of this entry →

Add-in Express upgrade policy

After we had sent out the newsletter about Generation 2010 of Add-in Express (Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer is the first swallow : -), I received a few questions about our upgrade policy. Well, I will try to formalize this issue here... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Create an Internet Explorer add-on for IE 6, 7 and 8 in VB.NET

I am sure you know that Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most popular web-browser. According to the Global Web Stats for December, 2009 Internet Explorer (8, 7 and 6) takes 50.3% of the market. Millions of people use IE every day at work, at home, on their way from work to home or the other way around... Read the rest of this entry →

The Old New Year 2010 and Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer

A period of more than 3 centuries when our country was part of Russia brought to our initially West-European culture lots of things habitual for Eurasian culture. Now we celebrate with the same passion Catholic Christmas, New Year, Orthodox Christmas and finally the Old New Year... Read the rest of this entry →

HowTo: Get an IE add-on to interact with a standalone application

In general, you can have IE add-ons interact with standalone applications by using Windows messages and the Shared (static in C#) GetModulesByTypeName method of the AddinExpress.IE.ADXIEModule class. There is just one limitation: both processes (IE with your add-on and standalone application) must be running in the same Integrity Level... Read the rest of this entry →

HowTo: Synchronize settings of an IE plug-in

Nearly every software has some settings. An Internet Explorer plug-in is not an exception. The IE plug-in settings can be stored either in a file or in a registry branch, all is simple and transparent about this. But how to ensure the settings synchronization for all active instances of the IE plug-in in all running Internet Explorer processes?... Read the rest of this entry →

HowTo: Deal with Protected Mode API in Internet Explorer 7 and IE8

The Protected Mode feature was introduced in Internet Explorer 7 and continues to exist in Internet Explorer 8. Nearly at the same time when the Protected Mode feature appeared Microsoft introduced Protected Mode API for developers to use this feature. All API functions are implemented in the Add-in Express for Internet Explorer and .net product and today we are going to look into their capabilities... Read the rest of this entry →

Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 2 download links

If your professional or premium subscription has not expired yet, or if you purchased Add-in Express after December 15, 2008, the upgrade is free for you. Otherwise, you can upgrade for 50% off the regular price... Read the rest of this entry →

Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 2 what’s new and fixed

Yesterday, on the 2nd of April, we uploaded beta 2 of Add-in Express 2009. Please, do not confuse it with Add-in Express 2010, announced in the April, 1 newsletter. Today, let it be a serious talk :)... Read the rest of this entry →

April 1st newsletter – Support for VisiCalc, WordStar, OpenOffice and ClosedOffice

Two days ago, that was April, 1, we sent out a newsletter (you certainly got it if you are on our mailing list) that didn't contain any valuable information at all, no features, no bug fixes, no enhancements. Just a couple of jokes and a few comments that I thought were funny enough to make our customers laugh. Why do I recur to that newsletter here and now? Because the feedback I received was just staggering!... Read the rest of this entry →

HowTo: .NET controls in Internet Explorer – natural behavior and look-and-feel

As for the way .net controls behave in Internet Explorer, it’s Okay, Add-in Express will take care of it. As concerns their look-and-feel, we are going to scrutinize this issue closely today. Standard .NET controls look rather clumsy in Internet Explorer...... Read the rest of this entry →

Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 1 what’s fixed

As compared to the previous generation, Add-in Express 2009 doesn’t contain revolutionary changes or enhancements. We have not rewritten the core code completely, the major part of the time was spent on the most in-demand features, such as Outlook view and form regions and Excel, Word and PowerPoint task panes... Read the rest of this entry →

Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 1 compatibility

What shall you expect from the new releases? What's new? Are there many changes? I will try to answer all questions here, in this post, as well as in a couple of upcoming ones... ... Read the rest of this entry →

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