Eugene Starostin | December 12th, 2008
Delphi remains platform number 1 for developing commercial-class Microsoft Office extensions. Is it big news for anybody? We have been in the know of that for a long time and say it to everyone. What is more, we still develop all our commercial add-ins on Delphi 7. ...
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COM add-ins, Delphi, Excel, Office, Outlook |
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Dmitry Kostochko | December 12th, 2008
Normally Outlook developers use the MailItem.UserProperties collection to send and receive some additional information with email messages. In this sample add-in for Microsoft Outlook, I suggest a slightly different approach ......
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.NET, C#, Object model, Outlook, VB.NET |
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Eugene Starostin | November 28th, 2008
Many of you have already enquired about our roadmap for the year 2009. Its rough outline is ready, but as you understand, we reserve the right to introduce some changes. Well, now in more detail......
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.NET, Delphi, IE add-ons, Office, Outlook, Outlook security, Visual Studio, VSTO |
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Andrei Smolin | November 26th, 2008
If you do programming for Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer or Outlook Express and have some experience in copywriting, then take a minute to read this page to the end. I am sure we’ll make a bargain....
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.NET, Delphi, IE add-ons, Office, Outlook, Visual Studio |
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Andrei Smolin | November 21st, 2008
If you develop an Outlook add-in in VSTO, you would definitely like to know how your add-in may affect (or might be affected by) another Outlook add-in, the Outlook client for Microsoft Dynamics CRM....
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COM add-ins, Outlook, VSTO |
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Eugene Astafiev | November 21st, 2008
There are plenty of articles in the web dwelling upon new possibilities of Outlook 2007 programming. Among the most frequently discussed issues is how to access and set various MAPI properties and how the PropertyAccessor can help with this. Let's have a close look at the new classes which were introduced in Outlook 2007 and […]...
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.NET, MAPI, Object model, Outlook |
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Andrei Smolin | October 30th, 2008
I like working at the support desk. I've become much closer to developers' needs and musts. They hit me with releasing COM objects in COM add-ins written VB.NET and C#. I’ve collected most common questions and my answers on this page. Well, let's go...
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.NET, IE add-ons, Object model, Office, Outlook |
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Eugene Astafiev | April 25th, 2008
Sometimes you need to process incoming e-mails and meeting requests in order to retrieve sender data for your CRM, to save attachments to your Document Management System (DMS), to process automated e-mails, or to convert selected incoming messages to plain text. Whenever you need to track incoming e-mails, you face the following Outlook events: NewMail, NewMailEx, and ItemAdd. ...
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.NET, MAPI, Object model, Outlook |
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Andrei Smolin | April 19th, 2008
To localize your COM add-in, you need to know the language settings of the Office application (host application) that the add-in is currently loaded in. In this post you will find some VB.NET and Delphi code samples of localizing your COM add-ins....
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.NET, COM add-ins, Delphi, Office, Outlook, Ribbon |
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Andrei Smolin | April 11th, 2008
In this post, I show you how to create a custom Outlook home folder page and enrich it with VBScript. Also I reveal the .NET way provided by Add-in Express: you create a custom .NET form and show it in the same way as Outlook Today does....
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.NET, Object model, Outlook |
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Eugene Astafiev | April 7th, 2008
Microsoft Outlook and Exchange are among the most popular applications utilizing MAPI. Add-in Express provides Outlook developers with a free component, MAPI Store Accessor, that hides MAPI complexities to provide developers with easy access to MAPI features....
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.NET, MAPI, Outlook |
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Andrei Smolin | March 28th, 2008
How to avoid a boring and time consuming work of retyping the sane words and phrases in Outlook correspondence. Let's develop an Outlook add-in that will keep and manage all our template phrases and signatures....
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.NET, COM add-ins, Object model, Outlook |
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Eugene Astafiev | March 21st, 2008
To make your controls look like Office ones isn't a simple task. When Office developers show .NET controls in their add-ins or standalone applications, they have to customize controls in order to conform to Office color styles....
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.NET, Office |
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Andrei Smolin | March 14th, 2008
Why the Ribbon tab designer by Add-in Express is better than that of VSTO 2008? Because it prevents the Office 2007 Ribbon XML from being constructed manually and in this way leaves no place for run-time errors....
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.NET, Office, Ribbon |
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Eugene Astafiev | March 14th, 2008
When I started developing IE add-ons I found out that Internet Explorer might generate a huge number of threads and processes and that my add-on is created in each of those threads. However, my plug-in contains data that should be accessible for all instances of the IE add-on. In this post, I will tell you how to make communication between IE add-on instances easy using Add-in Express for Internet Explorer....
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.NET, IE add-ons |
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Andrei Smolin | November 12th, 2007
You created an MSI-based setup project, say in Visual Studio, installed it on the customer PC, and it resulted in Error 2908. In this post you will find a workaround for this scenario. ...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Deployment |
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