‘Add-in Express for Office and .net’ category archive
Outlook Events Logger Add-in – release version
Dmitry Kostochko | July 1st, 2010
Some weeks ago we published Beta 1 of Add-in Express Events Add-in for Outlook, free add-in or rater tool that can help you learn events in the Outlook 2000-2010 Object Model. Today we have the Release version ready... Read the rest of this entry →
Smart Tags and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 28th, 2010
Smart Tags is a feature in Office by which Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook (if Word is used as the default editor) recognizes certain words and then presents the user with additional actions based on the selected text. It is available in Office 2002 to 2007, it is noticeably absent in Office 2010 as it has been deprecated, meaning that Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook will not automatically recognize words as in the previous versions... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Build and control advanced form regions for Outlook 2013 – 2000
Ty Anderson | June 25th, 2010
When it comes to building Office add-ins, Microsoft Outlook is perhaps the most popular application. No doubt that Excel and Word are close behind in popularity but Outlook wins this contest. I believe Outlook wins because it is the first application people open when they arrive in their office and it is the last one they close... Read the rest of this entry →
Controlling Outlook region’s state and form’s size in Add-in Express 2010
Fedor Shihantsov | June 25th, 2010
Here I will tell you how and where you can control the state of the regions where a custom task pane or an Outlook region is located, and also show how you can control the size of those forms... Read the rest of this entry →
XLL Add-ins and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 22nd, 2010
As I've mentioned in one of my previous posts, Excel has become one of my favourite reporting tools in the last few years. It is also the primary tool for anyone doing a data clean-up or conversion project... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Fast Shutdown: under the yellow hood
Sally Peck | June 17th, 2010
The Fast Shutdown feature found in Outlook 2010 represents a new direction for Microsoft Outlook towards Outlook stability and Outlook integrity. From Microsoft Outlook '97 till Microsoft Outlook 2007, system administrators around the world had to deal with Outlook hanging, Outlook Slow closing, corrupted PST (or OST) files and various Outlook Add-ins that hang for no reason... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2010 as development platform
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 14th, 2010
By the time this blog post is published, the kick-off between South Africa and Mexico officially started the FIFA World Cup 2010! Just as South Africa has come a long way in preparing for the first football World Cup on African soil, so too has Office evolved into a promising and stable platform for developers to deliver ground breaking and exciting solutions for their customers and users... Read the rest of this entry →
MS Office toolbar and Ribbon UI images style guide
Sergey Grischenko | June 7th, 2010
Add-in Express for Office and .net supports several types of images on controls of Microsoft Office applications. These are bmp, png and ico formats. But not all the formats can be used in all versions of Microsoft Office... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2010 Solutions Module and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 4th, 2010
I'm sure a lot of us use MS Outlook as our primary application when developing solutions hosted on the MS Office platform or when doing simple productivity enhancing add-ins. Using Outlook is an obvious choice, think about it... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express in-place GUI designers (on an example of Outlook add-in)
Ty Anderson | June 3rd, 2010
A key component of any Office add-in is the custom UI you develop for your users. And with Office, your add-in almost always requires a button or two in the Office menu or Ribbon. Add-in Express has long made it easy to build custom menus (aka CommandBars) and Ribbons... Read the rest of this entry →
Get insight of Outlook event chains with Events Add-in for Outlook
Dmitry Kostochko | June 3rd, 2010
Every developer who writes Outlook plug-ins must know the Outlook Object Model to a greater or lesser extent. And what is of the highest importance in the Outlook object model as well as in that of any other host app?... Read the rest of this entry →
.Net Framework 4, NoPIA and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 28th, 2010
Let’s take a break from the Northwind Traders application for a while and talk about a new feature available in .Net Framework 4 : NoPIA or Type Embedding. As you all know when we developed Office Add-ins or applications that integrated with the Office suite of products we have to include a reference to the Office PIAs or Primary Interop Assemblies
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Video: How to develop Outlook plugin – architecture and programming model
Ty Anderson | May 26th, 2010
The 2010 version of Add-in Express for Office and .NET will be released soon. As you might expect, the upcoming release will support the significant new features included with Office 2010 while also supporting previous versions of Office (all the way back to Office 2000)... Read the rest of this entry →
Customizing Office 2010 Backstage View with Add-in Express
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 21st, 2010
Those of us that have already started using Office 2010, would’ve notice something unexpected when clicking on the file menu. Instead of the normal menu, you’ll notice a whole page occupying your screen. This is known as the backstage view... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 and Office add-ins: Getting started
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 14th, 2010
I have used Add-in Express before and can honestly say that if you want to develop an MS Office add-in this product is definitely a worthwhile investment. In this post I’ll explain the benefits and some of the key features of Add-in Express 2010 for Office and .net when creating a small Office Add-in that is shared among Excel, Word and Outlook.... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 for Office: new GUI designers and the new guy
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 14th, 2010
Firstly, let me introduce myself, I’m Pieter van der Westhuizen, a recent addition to the Add-in Express team and I will be your host on a series of blog posts covering various aspects of the Add-in Express product range. As a keen user of the Add-in Express tools, this is an ideal opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with like-minded users... Read the rest of this entry →