Posts Tagged ‘COM add-ins’
How to avoid “Outlook detected a problem with an add-in”. Tips & tricks for Office 2013 developers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 9th, 2012
If you've read my last article, you would've seen I mentioned that Outlook 2013 has become a lot stricter when checking add-in performance for such metrics as add-in start-up, shutdown, item open and folder switching. If you do have a few misbehaving plug-ins, you might also have seen this new information bar when starting Outlook 2013 "A problem was detected with an add-in and it has been disabled"
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Radical redesign of Access 2013 and what it means for Office developers
Ty Anderson | October 5th, 2012
Access changed my life. Ever since I picked up a copy of the Access 97 Developer’s Reference, I have been enamored by Microsoft Office Access and how it can be utilized to build solutions. The first application I ever wrote was in Access 97…for a shipping company. It scanned shipping manifests. They loved it. I loved it... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create Office add-ins with a single code base
Ty Anderson | August 23rd, 2012
This is a preview and a quick demo of the next generation of Add-in Express for Office and .net that adds support for Microsoft Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012. The new version fits perfectly with VS 2012 and provides a true rapid application development experience like all previous Add-in Express versions... Read the rest of this entry →
How to customize context / right click menu of Excel 2013, 2010 and lower: C# sample
Dmitry Kostochko | August 22nd, 2012
Right-click menus of Microsoft Office applications are a very convenient option for the end-user to interact with the host application. And for us, COM add-in developers, creating a custom menu for our users could be just a piece of cake... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create an Outlook task, appointment or note from an email
Ty Anderson | July 16th, 2012
In the first installment of this series, Customizing Outlook Ribbon and command bars in a single add-in, we took the first step in building the Ty Actions Outlook Add-in. If you followed along, you have a beautiful custom Outlook ribbon and a custom a command bar that will impress your users... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating add-ins for Outlook: custom ribbon & command bar in one project (C#, VB.NET)
Ty Anderson | July 5th, 2012
Despite what some promulgate as software development best practices, I like to start my projects by sketching what I envision. I don't conduct interviews. I don't write requirements. I thumb my nose at all type-A project manager types and don't make a plan... Read the rest of this entry →
Programming for Office 2010 on Windows 8 with Visual Studio 2012
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 25th, 2012
If you've been following any IT related news lately you would've noticed that Microsoft has a number of new products and ideas up their sleeves. Last week we've seen their tablet offering, Microsoft Surface, announced. Windows 8 is close to release as well as Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013 will be released in 2013... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Set a custom icon for an Outlook folder in the Navigation Pane
Eugene Astafiev | June 14th, 2012
Today I want to show you one of the new features Outlook 2010 brought to programmers. Now Outlook allows setting custom icons the Navigation pane folders. The Outlook Object Model provides a special method for this task – SetCustomIcon. So, let's start our journey into the Outlook programming world ... Read the rest of this entry →
Building integrated Excel extensions: COM Add-in, RTD Server and XLL in one C# project
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 12th, 2012
Add-in Express for Office and .net makes building Microsoft Excel extensions easy. We provide you with a collection of tools and components to get that world-class Excel add-in out of the door and into the world in record time.
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Video: Creating Excel add-in using C#, VB.NET
Ty Anderson | June 4th, 2012
Excel is a popular target application for Office COM Add-ins and Add-in Express has the tools to empower you, the Excel add-in developer. In this relatively short video, we show you how our tools provide components and visual designers to help you quickly... Read the rest of this entry →
Advanced search in Outlook programmatically: C#, VB.NET
Eugene Astafiev | May 31st, 2012
Today I will tell you a story about searching items in Outlook. The most powerful and reliable search is using the AdvancedSearch method of the Application class... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating Excel 2010, 2007 addin. Customizing Excel Ribbon: C#, VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 29th, 2012
In today's article we'll concentrate on the components and tools Add-in Express for Office and .net gives us when developing COM add-ins for Excel 2007 and Excel 2010... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create Excel add-in: C# and VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 14th, 2012
It is also about time I write a few posts about writing Excel COM add-ins, so in today's article we'll take a look at how to create a superb world-class Excel add-in using Add-in Express for Office and .net... Read the rest of this entry →
How to share Outlook Views and changes between folders
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 16th, 2012
Every now and again, Eugene comes up with a certain challenge and asks me whether I would like to give it a go. In most of these cases it does involve a lot of trial and error and even more head scratching : ) The one challenge I'll describe in todays' article involves creating an Outlook folder view and applying it to two or more folders... Read the rest of this entry →
Create a custom Outlook view programmatically: C# sample
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 9th, 2012
When creating Outlook add-ins I used to always use the Add-in Express Web view when I wanted to display my own data in the folder view. Until recently, when I realized that Outlook does expose a lot of properties that make it easy to display your custom data using the built-in Outlook types as well as Outlook views... Read the rest of this entry →
WPF Controls for Office development smackdown
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 5th, 2012
We saw some interesting results with 3rd party UI control vendor products and Microsoft Office in my last article. In today's article we'll see how the same vendors' Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) controls suites look like in Microsoft Office
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