‘Add-in Express for Office and .net’ category archive
Upcoming Add-in Express releases – Q&A
Eugene Starostin | July 31st, 2012
We are going to release the new versions of the following products: Add-in Express for Office and .net and Add-in Express for Office and Delphi VCL. However, please note that our cornerstone product, Add-in Express for Office and .net, comes out first... Read the rest of this entry →
How to support Office 2013 in your Add-in Express based projects
Eugene Starostin | July 27th, 2012
Recently Microsoft has made Office 2013 Consumer Preview available, so I am announcing its support by the next generation of our products. We added the complete support for all core extensibility technologies including COM add-ins, XLL add-ons and RTD Servers... Read the rest of this entry →
Getting started with Office 2013 for developers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 26th, 2012
Wow! We finally have a preview of the next version of Office! The last week we've been bombarded with new information about Office 2013 and just how different it is. As developers any new version of Office can be a little bit intimidating if not downright scary
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How Visual Studio 2012 will be supported by the upcoming Add-in Express releases
Eugene Starostin | July 26th, 2012
As early as this spring we announced the next generation of our flagship product – Add-in Express for Office and .net. The 2 main features included in this major release are support for coming Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013... Read the rest of this entry →
Support for Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012 coming soon
Dmitry Kostochko | July 23rd, 2012
For the last few days we have received quite a lot of questions with one prevailing theme - When are you going to add support for Office 2013? The first one arrived a few hours after Microsoft had published Office 2013 CP and put a smile on our faces: Office 2013 has been out for a few hours and there is no update yet?... 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 →