Posts Tagged ‘Word’
Let’s take a break from the Northwind Traders application for a while and talk about a new feature available in .Net Framework 4 : NoPIA or Type Embedding. As you all know when we developed Office Add-ins or applications that integrated with the Office suite of products we have to include a reference to the Office PIAs or Primary Interop Assemblies
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Office, PIAs, VB.NET, Visual Studio, Word |
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Dmitry Kostochko | April 30th, 2010
Add-in Express supports creating COM add-ins for Office 2000 - 2010. Office 2000, XP and 2003 have a traditional command bar-based user interface, while Office 2007 is partially and Office 2010 is fully ribbonized. "How is it possible to support both types of user interfaces in one COM add-in project?" you may ask...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Ribbon, VB.NET, Visual Studio, Word |
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Eugene Starostin | April 22nd, 2010
Advanced Office task panes in Office 2010 have no principle differences from those of any other Office versions, they just work and that's it. That's why this subject is so arid, that I won't get back to it anymore. However, after scrutinizing all the above screenshots, I see that we will definitely ennoble certain "pixels"...
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.NET, Delphi, Excel, Office, PowerPoint, task panes, Word |
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Dmitry Kostochko | April 9th, 2010
To resize your custom Office task pane, you need to use the trivial Width and Height properties of the particular instance of your task pane. There is just one important thing - the Splitter property should be set to None...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Excel, Outlook, Outlook regions, PowerPoint, Ribbon, task panes, VB.NET, Visual Studio, Word |
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Dmitry Kostochko | August 21st, 2009
In one of the previous posts, we examined the possibilities of retrieving properties from Outlook MailItem when dragging this item onto your custom form. Here is that post: How to get properties of an Outlook email item drag-and-dropped onto a .NET form. But what if the Advanced Region is in a Minimized state? In this case the form is hidden and none of the standard events will work...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio, Word |
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Eugene Starostin | May 1st, 2009
Strange things mentioned in my previous post continue to happen. To the bug successfully fixed in the Office Live Add-in on Excel 2007, there's added a nasty and so far no-solution problem with the same add-in, this time on Word 2003...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Delphi, Office, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO, Word |
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Eugene Starostin | March 2nd, 2009
As compared to the previous generation, Add-in Express 2009 doesn’t contain revolutionary changes or enhancements. We have not rewritten the core code completely, the major part of the time was spent on the most in-demand features, such as Outlook view and form regions and Excel, Word and PowerPoint task panes...
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.NET, Delphi, Excel, IE add-ons, Office, Outlook, PowerPoint, Ribbon, task panes, VSTO, Word |
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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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