Eugene Starostin | March 2nd, 2009
As early as in July 2008, in version 4.2 we added beta support of three rather specific regions: FolderView and ReadingPane for the Outlook Explorer window, and InspectorRegion for the Outlook Inspector window. Since then we have fixed a couple of bugs, but didn’t go through with it to announce these regions 100% complete...
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.NET, Delphi, Outlook, Outlook regions, Visual Studio, VSTO |
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Dmitry Kostochko | February 27th, 2009
You can search in Outlook in three different ways – by using the Items.Restrict method, Items.Find in liaison with Items.FindNext and Application.AdvancedSearch. The first two have essential limitations in use…...
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.NET, C#, Object model, Outlook, Outlook regions, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Eugene Starostin | February 26th, 2009
If someone all of a sudden decides to read through whatsnew.txt from the Add-in Express 2009 distributive, they may run into a mysterious point: IMPROVED: Advanced form and view regions for Microsoft Outlook. Here is what it means...
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.NET, Delphi, Office, Outlook, Outlook regions, Ribbon, VSTO |
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Eugene Starostin | February 26th, 2009
What shall you expect from the new releases? What's new? Are there many changes? I will try to answer all questions here, in this post, as well as in a couple of upcoming ones... ...
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.NET, Delphi, IE add-ons, Office, VSTO |
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Eugene Starostin | February 26th, 2009
Finally we uploaded beta 1 of Add-in Express 2009 for Office (all three editions) and Add-in Express for Internet Explorer. You can download it right now ......
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.NET, Delphi, IE add-ons, Office, VSTO |
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Dmitry Kostochko | February 20th, 2009
Well, it’s all about Outlook again. Today we will look at the capabilities of the Recipients collection, Recipient and AddressEntry objects. Using these objects you can get all necessary information about recipients, and you can also modify their e-mail addressees......
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.NET, C#, Object model, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Dmitry Kostochko | February 13th, 2009
Today I’d like to draw your attention to one specificity of the Excel Object Model that every .NET developer should be aware of. Those who are unaware, may get the notorious "Old format or invalid type library" error......
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.NET, C#, Excel, Object model, Office, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Dmitry Kostochko | February 6th, 2009
One of the most frequent questions we get concerning the Outlook Object Model is "How to handle the Send button event?" Here is the answer: "You need to use the Application.ItemSend event"......
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C#, Object model, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Dmitry Kostochko | January 30th, 2009
Yes, you can do that in one Visual Studio project, but not in one solution. And yes, you can do it using the Add-in Express products. There are only two things to keep in mind…...
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C#, Excel, IE add-ons, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, Word |
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Dmitry Kostochko | January 25th, 2009
Here you will get to know how you can use Windows Server Group Policy to install Office applications automatically, including Office COM add-ins. You will learn how to create a Group Policy object in Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2008, how to assign and remove an installation package…...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Deployment, Excel, Office, VB.NET, Word |
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Dmitry Kostochko | January 16th, 2009
One of the tasks that developers often run into is saving and retrieving Office documents (or document copies) from external data storage. This storage can be an SQL database, Web-service, FTP server as well as a shared network resource of a local area network. Let’s try to handle this task for such popular MS Office applications as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook…...
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.NET, C#, Excel, Object model, Office, Outlook, PowerPoint, VB.NET, Visual Studio, Word |
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Eugene Starostin | January 14th, 2009
A rare day passes when we do not receive a question like that. We have several template answers which are helpful in some degree in deciding which Add-in Express edition to choose. But I am not satisfied with any of the templates. Now I will try to depict everything that makes a real difference between three editions of Add-in Express for Office, and all that is worth taking into consideration when choosing the edition right for you....
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.NET, COM add-ins, Delphi, Office, Visual Studio, VSTO |
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Eugene Starostin | December 24th, 2008
I have discovered an interesting fact. My posts on this blog led to the increased number of messages in my Inbox. But practically no one writes directly here, to the blog. The main goal is reached, though – we have got one more tool for communication with our customers... :-)...
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.NET, Delphi, Office, Outlook, VSTO |
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Eugene Starostin | December 22nd, 2008
The New Year is coming! For the last seven days I'm saying these words every time I step over the threshold of our office. Do you feel there is something special in the air? :) So, I will be brief......
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Delphi, Office, Visual Studio, VSTO |
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Andrei Smolin | December 19th, 2008
As you probably know the .NET Framework provides a number of advantages when compared to Win32 programming. Say, administrators have by far more control over your code – they may restrict your code to use these or those resources or permissions. While it puts some limits on developers, companies are able to build environments that are safer and more controllable. ...
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.NET, C#, Delphi, Office, VB.NET |
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Eugene Starostin | December 17th, 2008
Embarcadero, continuing to support Delphi for Win32, is about to launch onto the market the version of Visual Studio 2008 Standard with Delphi for .NET built in. To be more precise, this is not the original Delphi for .NET, nor is it a reincarnation of Delphi 8, it is a "new" .NET-oriented programming language, which, however, already has a rich history. ...
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C#, COM add-ins, Delphi, Office, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO |
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