Andrei Smolin | December 20th, 2017
Microsoft has published Office 2016 build 8828.2010 through its Office Insider update channel. That build supports multiple monitors with different DPI settings; the support relies on the API changes provided by Windows 10 Creators Update....
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.NET, COM add-ins, Delphi, Excel, Office, PowerPoint, task panes, Word |
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Andrei Smolin | December 19th, 2017
You might have heard of a recent update of Microsoft Outlook 2016 (LAA) that increased the memory available for Outlook from 2GB to 4GB. We've started receiving questions about how to deal with it. This blog is an answer...
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COM add-ins, Outlook |
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Andrei Smolin | December 7th, 2017
Today's blog is about a recent crash reported by our customer. Our research shows that the crash occurs if your VSTO add-in or COM add-in creates a command bar control on a built-in context menu. We reproduce the crash when customizing the Cells context menu in this way...
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COM add-ins, CommandBars, Excel |
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Andrei Smolin | December 1st, 2017
We’ve started a new line of blogs to inform Office and Add-in Express developers about problems and solutions related to Microsoft Office and/or Add-in Express products as early as possible...
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Outlook, Outlook regions |
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Andrei Smolin | November 10th, 2017
To test the example described below, download and run the application installing the sample COM add-in. When the add-in is installed, you start Excel 2000 - 2016 and find the add-in in the UI. Leave Excel open and in a couple of minutes, you'll get a notification suggesting installing an update...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Deployment, Office |
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Dmitry Kostochko | March 16th, 2017
A couple of days ago, we published a new minor version of Add-in Express for Office and .NET that fully supports the newly released Visual Studio 2017. Now you can use any version of VS 2010 to VS 2017 to quickly create world-class extensions for all Microsoft Office versions and applications from prototype to final release...
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COM add-ins, Visual Studio |
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Andrei Smolin | February 2nd, 2017
Let's start with the conclusion: you can deeply customize the UI and behavior of the MSI installer of your Add-in Express based Office extension using a ClickTwice custom action. To see how this works, build the project below, install the add-in by starting the MSI installer, and have a closer look at that installer's UI...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Deployment |
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Dmitry Kostochko | December 20th, 2016
The article describes how to create a localized version of an Office add-in by using regular forms-based resources without having to apply them manually to each component, form or control...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Deployment, Excel, VB.NET, Word |
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Dmitry Kostochko | December 9th, 2016
Last month Microsoft published Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2017. We, as Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner, were invited to support this version at the RC stage, and we were happy to seize the opportunity...
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.NET, Deployment, Visual Studio |
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Andrei Smolin | November 30th, 2016
Version 8.3 of Add-in Express for Office and .net added support for automatic updates when using ClickTwice – MSI-based web deployment technology, this technology is closely tied with Add-in Express...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Deployment, Office |
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Starting with version 8.2, Add-in Express began to open its internal infrastructure, which allows developers to customize some areas of advanced Excel, Word and PowerPoint task panes and Outlook regions. In the new release, it becomes possible to customize the header together with its controls as well as splitter and border. You can also modify the appearance of a minimized region, control the header visibility, change padding, get HitTest info and more...
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Excel, Outlook, Outlook regions, task panes |
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Rex Chan | March 2nd, 2016
This is a guest post by Rex Chan, your fellow developer and our long-term customer, in which he explains the reasons of his failure to launch a new product and gives some good advice on how not to make the same mistakes...
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The Office 2016 release is upon us and it is time we start having a closer look at the new features and changes in Outlook as well as what new extensibility the new Office 2016 platform offers to Outlook developers...
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COM add-ins |
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The article demonstrates how to create an Outlook add-in that integrates with OneDrive for Business and gives your users the ability to attach a file to an email directly from OneDrive...
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COM add-ins, Office 365, Outlook |
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Today, we'll investigate how to retrieve data such as contacts, calendar entries and e-mails from Exchange. We'll create a simple Excel add-in, using our favourite Office development toolset, Add-in Express for Office and .net, which will import Exchange e-mails, contacts and calendar events into the active Excel workbook...
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Apps for Office, COM add-ins, Excel, Office 365 |
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In our last article, we took a 10,000 foot view of what Office 365 has to offer. The article also made note of the Office 365 API, which enables developers to integrate with and use their users' Office 365 data...
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Apps for Office, Office 365 |
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