Eugene Astafiev | March 5th, 2012
In my previous articles I described how to use Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items, contact and calendar items. Now I am going to show you how to apply the Find and FindNext methods for Outlook task items...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Ty Anderson | March 2nd, 2012
One of the great things about the MVP Summit is hob-knobbing with other developers... particularly anyone that develops with the Office platform. I typically think of myself as an Office Developer, even when doing non-Office-related projects...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | February 29th, 2012
February 29th is an odd day. Some people treat it like a free day, an extra day that doesn't really count. They take off work and do something they don't normally have time to do. Like try a new hobby or take a nap...
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Office, SharePoint |
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Microsoft Outlook regions are cool. It offers developers the ability to add their own custom functionality to the standard Microsoft Outlook Inspector or Explorer windows...
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.NET, Outlook, Outlook regions, Visual Studio, VSTO |
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Andrei Smolin | February 27th, 2012
There are three ways to invoke a command of an Office application: click a built-in Ribbon button (2007-2010); click a built-in CommandBar button (Office 2000-2003 and some Office 2007 applications) and press a keyboard shortcut...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, CommandBars, Object model, Office, Ribbon, Word |
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One of the first articles I wrote for Add-in Express was about the Office 2010 Backstage View. Microsoft Office 2010 was still new and users of Office where still getting used to Microsoft's new approach to the "File" menu. The Add-in Express Backstage view component has since received a new and very impressive visual designer that makes designing the Backstage view a piece of cake
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C#, COM add-ins, Excel, Office, Visual Studio |
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Ty Anderson | February 24th, 2012
While we wait for MSFT to release more Office regarding the next wave of Office, SharePoint, & Office 365... we can assuage ourselves with the upcoming new features for SharePoint Online. This release is SP 2 and contains 4 super-duper-awesome features...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | February 23rd, 2012
I'm really intrigued by Office 365. I think the way Microsoft is marketing it (and pricing it) is compelling. What I like most is the potential user base it represents. I really like that I can build a solution and publish it. I really love that people can buy it and then use it during their day. It's a bit like writing words and then having you read them...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Eugene Astafiev | February 23rd, 2012
There are two item types that can be recurrent in Outlook: appointment and task items. In one of my earlier posts described the first one. Now I am going to tell you the story about task items...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Ty Anderson | February 22nd, 2012
Yesterday, TheDaily.com ran a story stating Microsoft will soon send Office for iPad to the Apple App Store. Microsoft quickly released a statement that they claim is a denial....
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Office, Outlook |
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Andrei Smolin | February 21st, 2012
The Excel object model doesn't have any events purposed for manipulations with shapes. In this blog I demonstrate an approach to solving this problem...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, CommandBars, Excel, Object model, Office, Ribbon |
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Creating a Microsoft Office add-in prototype is certainly much faster with the help of Add-in Express's visual designers. The visual designers help you to very quickly and easily build complex Office UI's as well as customize the existing MS Office UI...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Office, Outlook, Ribbon, Visual Studio, VSTO |
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Eugene Astafiev | February 17th, 2012
In my previous posts I have described how to create a new e-mail message, contact and appointment items. Today I am going to cover task items...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Ty Anderson | February 17th, 2012
I'll admit that each of these articles have some informative information. Actually, that's what information is... informative. It's useful. Each of these articles are useful in their own way. For today's newswire, these articles also allow me to riff and offer my own thoughts and opinions without requiring me to write 15 or more articles...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Andrei Smolin | February 16th, 2012
This blog is about a sample add-in project (with source code) demonstrating how to use Word dialogs programmatically. With this add-in you can check if a given dialog is suitable for your task or get version-specific information about that dialog and its properties...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Office, Word |
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Ty Anderson | February 15th, 2012
Sometimes it's a struggle to find fresh developer items. This is expected given Office 2010 is no longer the center of attention due to our clamoring for more Office 15 details. Those details will arrive soon enough. For today, we have some solid items for your consideration.
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Office, Ribbon, SharePoint, VSTO |
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