Eugene Astafiev | August 3rd, 2011
Some time ago I showed a way of creating a folder in Outlook. Now I want to show the reverse operation – deleting a folder. The Outlook Object Model provides the Delete method of the Folder class for such task. It doesn’t accept any parameters and doesn’t return any value. It just does its job!...
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.NET, C#, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Eugene Astafiev | August 1st, 2011
Today I will show you how to create a new folder in Outlook. As you have probably noticed, the Outlook Object Model provides the Folders class...
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.NET, C#, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Andrei Smolin | August 1st, 2011
How to specify account for an outgoing email message in Outlook 2000-2010?...
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C#, CommandBars, Object model, Outlook, VB.NET |
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Ty Anderson | July 20th, 2011
Business Contact Manager (BCM) is Microsoft's attempt to a nice CRM tool to the small and medium-sized business market. It has its pros and cons but overall, I think they succeeded. Business Contact Manager resides within Microsoft Outlook, which makes perfect sense. Using BCM, users can seamlessly track leads, projects, employees, marketing campaigns and more...
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COM add-ins, Outlook, Visual Studio |
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In today's post I'll demonstrate how you can customize your add-in setup project to allow your users to select which Microsoft Office applications the add-in will be installed for. I am using Add-in Exprewss 2010 for Office and .net...
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C#, COM add-ins, Deployment, Excel, Office, Visual Studio, Word |
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Ty Anderson | June 22nd, 2011
For almost every menu and/or Ribbon command in Microsoft Office, there is a keyboard shortcut for it. These shortcuts allow you to quickly and easy execute a command with a key stroke that might take several clicks of the mouse...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Excel, Office, Word |
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The Microsoft Office Ribbon is probably one component we all use in almost every MS Office add-in. In today's post we'll take a closer look at the Office 2010 Fluent Ribbon UI as well as various ways you can customize it to fit your needs...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Office, Outlook, Ribbon, Visual Studio |
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Ty Anderson | June 15th, 2011
Internet Explorer is the world's most popular browser which makes it a nice target for custom solutions. Using Add-in Express helps you build Office COM Add-ins that your users love. As a result, you might be looking to expand to different markets… markets that probably do not speak you language. As a result, you are looking to build a localized version or versions of your add-in...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Office, Visual Studio |
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Ty Anderson | June 13th, 2011
Internet Explorer is the world's most popular browser which makes it a nice target for custom solutions. Microsoft provides an IE SDK that attempts to provide you with guidance on how to build custom toolbars, menus, side bars, etc. The problem is that this SDK leaves you alone to fall into the potential pitfalls and doesn’t lend you a helping hand
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.NET, IE add-ons, Visual Studio |
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Add-in Express enables you as a developer to quickly and easily create, not just MS Office add-ins but also Excel XLL add-ins, Excel Real-time data (RTD) servers and smart tags. In this post I'll demonstrate how you could include all this functionality in one Visual Studio project. Start by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Excel, Office, Outlook, RTD servers, smart tags, Word, XLL |
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Ty Anderson | June 7th, 2011
As the most popular browser Internet Explorer makes a nice target for solutions that extend browser functionality or that provide additional features for working with browser based content. Lucky for us developers Microsoft provides an SDK for Internet Explorer. Even luckier for us developers is that Add-in Express simplifies Internet Explorer plug-in development by providing an all-in-one framework
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.NET, IE add-ons |
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Ty Anderson | May 26th, 2011
It's well known that Add-in Express simplifies Office development via our support for multiple types of Office based solutions. But perhaps you don't know that one of our best features is how we simplify deployment via support of 4 base deployment technologies...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Deployment |
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Let's be honest, the present day market place is an international one. It is no longer good enough to only have your application and/or add-in support just in one language. If you're planning on taking over the world you need to start thinking "localization"....
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C#, COM add-ins, Office, Visual Studio |
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Ty Anderson | May 12th, 2011
People use Microsoft Office for all sorts of tasks in order to get their work done. For example, they use Word to write proposals, they use PowerPoint to create awesome marketing presentations, and then they use Excel to calculate their commissions. But the thing is often users need to leave Office to go and gather information that they need to complete the document...
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Excel, PowerPoint, task panes, Word |
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Ty Anderson | May 10th, 2011
Microsoft Excel supports multiple types of add-in architectures, from XLLs to user-defined functions and COM add-ins to real-time data servers. Each have their own interface in Excel and each require separate sets of technical knowledge to use them effectively leaving a developer just wondering where to begin...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Excel |
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Dmitry Kostochko | May 6th, 2011
The next pane of the Word task panes series that we are going to explore is the Advanced Top Task Pane. We are going to create a new COM add-in that will work in Microsoft Word 2000 - 2010, add a custom task pane and bind it to the top position...
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.NET, COM add-ins, task panes, VB.NET, Visual Studio, Word |
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