Ty Anderson | November 29th, 2011
Everyone is spending time trying to figure out "the cloud". The big software vendors have already decided it will be a big part of our future. They are rushing to port their existing offerings to the cloud to provide more features at a lower cost while also achieving software nirvana… subscription pricing...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Andrei Smolin | November 28th, 2011
There are two variants of handling events of an Outlook item. You can connect to events of an item shown in the active inspector window. In addition, you can connect to events of an item selected in the explorer window...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Outlook, VB.NET |
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Ty Anderson | November 26th, 2011
I'm a day late with the Office Newswire for this week. I am without excuse but I will still lay blame on the tryptophan-induced coma I had as a result of all the turkey I ate during Thanksgiving. That and the 2 pieces of pecan pie...
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Office, Outlook, SharePoint |
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If you've been following our blog lately, you would've noticed a series of articles about Office 365. It is no secret that Office 365 will help move Office to the cloud and as developers we need to gear up for it...
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Ty Anderson | November 23rd, 2011
If you have been watching our Office 365 video series then you have a high-level understanding of what Office 365 is and what you can do with it as a developer. If you are looking to start building solutions with Office 365, then this video is for you.
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | November 22nd, 2011
Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud offering for productivity and collaboration software. It has versions suitable for all organizations and businesses… large, medium, and small. But what does the Office 365 technology stack offer the developer? Isn't it just the usual "information worker" aspects of Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010 and a few others (i.e. Lync 2010) or is there more to it?...
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Ty Anderson | November 22nd, 2011
Over the past week I think it is fair to say there is a certain "rough and tumble" or smack down going on between Google and Microsoft over their cloud-based Office solutions. I've done my best to cull the list down to best articles...
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Office 365 |
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Ty Anderson | November 18th, 2011
This post starts with a mind map...a diagram that attempts to document what went through a person's mind as they brainstormed or went through a series of tasks. In this case, the mind map is from one of my favorite blogs which typically covers the sport of baseball...
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Office, SharePoint |
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In my last post we looked at what Office 365 means to end-users and companies as well as the services that are available to them. Now, I'm sure like me, a lot of developers out there are asking just what exactly does Office 365 mean to us. Also, how would we integrate with Office 365? What exactly can we integrate with? Will my existing Office add-ins still work?...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Andrei Smolin | November 17th, 2011
Have you ever run into the issue when an Outlook toolbar created by your add-in shows up in Word? Or maybe, a Word toolbar gets displayed in Outlook? This article describes the issue and provides a workaround; the source code is supplied in VB.NET, C# and Delphi...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, CommandBars, Delphi, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, Word |
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Ty Anderson | November 16th, 2011
Here at Add-in-Express, we have decided (actually, it was Eugene's idea) it would be a good idea to regularly share Office related news with you…our beloved customers. As you might imagine, we spend all of our free time reading about Office and what Microsoft calls "the Information Worker Platform"….which we, the non-marketing developer types, refer to simply as Office & SharePoint
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Eugene Astafiev | November 15th, 2011
I described how to use the Find and FindNext methods against calendar items in my previous post. Today I would like to take closer look at how to deal with calendar items using the Restrict method...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Office 365 has been around for only a few months now, and it is starting to gain momentum. I'm sure like me, you must be wondering what is Office 365 and how it could benefit your customers. It isn't easy to say what Office 365 is in one sentence, but if you have to...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Eugene Astafiev | November 11th, 2011
In my previous articles I described how to use the Find and FindNext methods of the Items class against mail and contact items. Today we will have a closer look at calendar items...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Ty Anderson | November 11th, 2011
Office 365 is here and businesses (I mean the people that run them) are starting to ask: What is it? How does it work? Should we adopt it? Etc. This video is the first in a new series that will cover these questions and other Office 365 topics...
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In the previous part we looked at using Extended MAPI to handle new mails in Outlook and despite the fact that is does a pretty decent job of it, it still has some serious limitations. In this, the fourth and final part of the series, we will write our own solution to the problem
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Office, Outlook |
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