Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 2 what’s new and fixed

Yesterday, on the 2nd of April, we uploaded beta 2 of Add-in Express 2009. Please, do not confuse it with Add-in Express 2010, announced in the April 1st newsletter. Today, let it be a serious talk :)

What’s new in beta 2

From what have been added, the chief thing is drag-and-drop. For more information, see Drag-and-drop for Outlook regions. As to the comprehensive details for each product, you will find them below.

Add-in Express for Office and .net

ADDED

• Drag-and-drop for advanced Outlook form and view regions and Excel, Word and PowerPoint task panes.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, ExplorerAllowedDropRegions, InspectorAllowedDropRegions, ExpandFromMinimizedState properties to ADXOlFormsCollectionItem.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, AllowedDropPositions, ExpandFromMinimizedState to ADXExcelTaskPanesCollectionItem.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, AllowedDropPositions, ExpandFromMinimizedState properties to ADXWordTaskPanesCollectionItem.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, AllowedDropPositions, ExpandFromMinimizedState properties to ADXPowerPointTaskPanesCollectionItem.
• The ADXExcelTaskPanesCollectionItem.ShowTaskPane method.
• Support for XLL in Microsoft Visual C# Express and the Visual Basic Express IDEs.
• The Recognized event to the ADXSmartTag component.

FIXED

• Some minor bugs in the ReadingPane, FolderView and InspectorRegion regions.
• The ArgumentException in the AddinExpress.Extensions.AdxSplitter.WndProc method.
• The ‘Parameter is not valid’ exception in the AddinExpress.Extensions.AdxTaskPane.WndProc method.
• The ADXPowerPointTaskPanesCollectionItem.TaskPaneInstance property returned an instance only for PowerPoint 2003.
• Public Folders were not scanned when the WebViewPane layout was not used.
• Endless loop between the ADXOlFormsCollectionItem.ADXReadingPaneHide and ADXOlFormsManager.ADXReadingPaneShow events when the Outlook Explorer window was reduced back to the non-maximized size.
• A problem with custom task panes in Word if a new Word document was opened from Internet Explorer.
• XLL functions returned ‘?’ instead of the actual character on PCs with regional settings different from English.
• A problem with custom menu items if a built-in command bar was dynamically created by Outlook.
• The ReminderAdd, ReminderChange, ReminderFire and Snooze events didn’t return the correct parameter in the ADXOutlookAppEvents component.
• Add-in Express didn’t work correctly with the latest version of Delphi Prism.
• A problem with the setup project in Windows Vista Korean.

Add-in Express for Office and VCL

ADDED

• Drag-and-drop for the advanced Outlook form and view regions and Excel, Word and PowerPoint task panes.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, ExplorerAllowedDropRegions, InspectorAllowedDropRegions, ExpandFromMinimizedState properties to TadxOlFormsCollectionItem.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, AllowedDropPositions, ExpandFromMinimizedState to TadxExcelTaskPanesCollectionItem.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, AllowedDropPositions, ExpandFromMinimizedState properties to TadxWordTaskPanesCollectionItem.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, AllowedDropPositions, ExpandFromMinimizedState properties to TadxPowerPointTaskPanesCollectionItem.
• Support for the Windows Installer XML Tool (WiX).
• The OnClickEx event to the TadxSmartTagAction class.
• The TadxExcelTaskPanesCollectionItem.ShowTaskPane method.

FIXED

• Some minor bugs in the elReadingPane and elFolderView regions.
• Several minor bugs in the ilInspectorRegion region.
• TadxBuiltInControl.OnActionEx triggered twice in Word 2000.
• TadxCustomCommandBar.Destroy fired an exception in some scenarios.
• Bug with the TadxRibbonSplitButton.Pressed property.
• Bug when creating an Office 2007 custom task pane.
• The main window of the Visio application might have appeared when the add-in was unregistered.
• Excel Automation add-ins were registered only in one version of Excel installed on the PC.
• The TAddinModule.OnKeyDown event fired twice.
• Microsoft Word might have hung at closing in some scenarios.
• Endless loop between the TadxOlFormsManager.ADXReadingPaneHide and ADXReadingPaneShow events when the Outlook Explorer window was reduced back to the non-maximized size.
• Public Folders were not scanned when the WebViewPane layout was not used.
• The COMAddin.Object property was not initialized properly.

Add-in Express for Office and VSTO

ADDED

• Drag-and-drop for the advanced Outlook form and view regions and Excel, Word and PowerPoint task panes.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, ExplorerAllowedDropRegions, InspectorAllowedDropRegions, ExpandFromMinimizedState properties to ADXOlFormsCollectionItem.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, AllowedDropPositions, ExpandFromMinimizedState to ADXExcelTaskPanesCollectionItem.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, AllowedDropPositions, ExpandFromMinimizedState properties to ADXWordTaskPanesCollectionItem.
• The IsDragDropAllowed, AllowedDropPositions, ExpandFromMinimizedState properties to ADXPowerPointTaskPanesCollectionItem.
• The ADXExcelTaskPanesCollectionItem.ShowTaskPane method.

FIXED

• Some minor bugs in the ReadingPane region.
• Some minor bugs in the FolderView region.
• Some minor bugs in the InspectorRegion region.
• The ArgumentException in the AddinExpress.Extensions.AdxSplitter.WndProc method.
• The ‘Parameter is not valid.’ exception in the AddinExpress.Extensions.AdxTaskPane.WndProc method.
• The ADXPowerPointTaskPanesCollectionItem.TaskPaneInstance property returned an instance only for PowerPoint 2003.
• Public Folders were not scanned when the WebViewPane layout was not used.
• Endless loop between the ADXOlFormsCollectionItem.ADXReadingPaneHide and ADXOlFormsManager.ADXReadingPaneShow events when the Outlook Explorer window was reduced back to the non-maximized size.
• A problem with custom task panes in Word if a new Word document was opened from Internet Explorer.
• A problem with custom menu items if a built-in command bar was dynamically created by Outlook.
• The ReminderAdd, ReminderChange, ReminderFire and Snooze events didn’t return the correct parameter in the ADXOutlookAppEvents component.
• A problem with the setup project in Windows Vista Korean.

Add-in Express for Internet Explorer and .net

ADDED

• Support for Internet Explorer 8 Release.
• The ADXIESharedMemory class to support the Windows Shared Memory feature.

FIXED

• Add-in Express didn’t work correctly with the latest version of Delphi Prism.
• A problem with Explorer bars and Toolbars in Windows 2000.
• The HTMLDocument property of the ADXIEModule, ADXIEBar and ADXIEToolbar classes raised the COM exception.
• A problem with the setup project in Windows Vista Korean.
• A problem with the setup project in Visual Studio 2008 on some PCs.