‘Add-in Express for Office and .net’ category archive
Video: Fully-featured solutions for all Excel add-in types
Ty Anderson | May 10th, 2011
Microsoft Excel supports multiple types of add-in architectures, from XLLs to user-defined functions and COM add-ins to real-time data servers. Each have their own interface in Excel and each require separate sets of technical knowledge to use them effectively leaving a developer just wondering where to begin... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Advanced Word task panes – Top task pane (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | May 6th, 2011
The next pane of the Word task panes series that we are going to explore is the Advanced Top Task Pane. We are going to create a new COM add-in that will work in Microsoft Word 2000 - 2010, add a custom task pane and bind it to the top position... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating an Office COM add-in: getting started for VB developers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 2nd, 2011
How to quickly create a shared COM add-in for Microsoft Outlook, Excel and word in VB.NET. Sample add-in is available for download.... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Advanced Word task panes – Left task pane (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 29th, 2011
To continue with a series of short video how-to demonstrating the capabilities of Add-in Express in customizing the Microsoft Office UI, we will explorer the Advanced Word Task Panes... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – InspectorRegion region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 22nd, 2011
Today we are going to review the potential of InspectorRegion. Using this region you can add your own form underneath the main page of any Outlook Inspector window, such as mail, contact, appointment etc. Let's see how to create it... Read the rest of this entry →
Programming for Outlook Business Contact Manager (BCM)
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 19th, 2011
Microsoft Business Contact Manager or BCM is a great way for mostly small businesses to manage their business contacts, sales leads and projects. The beauty of BCM for MS Office developers is the fact that it is entirely contained within MS Outlook; giving the user a seamlessly integrated experience with Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Extend Outlook UI with advanced version neutral regions
Ty Anderson | April 18th, 2011
Office users love Microsoft Outlook. But users often have unique productivity methods that often don't quite fit within Outlook's out of the box features set. Thinks to Add-in Express this isn't a problem! Developers can extend the Outlook user interface by implementing something known as version neutral regions... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – BottomSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 15th, 2011
Today we are going to shed some light on the capabilities of the BottomSubpane region. We will create our own advanced region and host it to the bottom part of the Inspector window that contains mail items... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Take your Outlook plug-in development to another level (C#, VB.NET)
Ty Anderson | April 15th, 2011
If Microsoft Office is a productivity suite, then Microsoft Outlook is the foundation of Office productivity. Office users spend a significant portion of their day using the programs to do things like manage emails, keep an appointment calendar, maintain a contacts database, track To-Do lists etc... Read the rest of this entry →
Express help for busy developers
Eric Legault | April 15th, 2011
If you haven't been to our website in a while (or been following us on Twitter), you may have missed a very important resource that we published this year: our new Add-in Express Learning Center. Think of these pages as your entry point to Add-in Express development - a one-stop-shop to help you quickly locate technical articles... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – RightSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 8th, 2011
The next Inspector region that we target is RightSubpane. This region is located on the right of the Inspector window, it can be bound to any Outlook items such as mail, task, contact, etc... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – TopSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 1st, 2011
In today's part of this short video how-to series covering Inspector regions, we are going to explorer the capacities of the TopSubpane region... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – LeftSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 30th, 2011
In our todays' video example of customizing the Outlook Inspector window we are going to look into the capabilities of the LeftSubpane region... Read the rest of this entry →
How to install multiple Office add-ins using one setup project
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 30th, 2011
In today's post I'll demonstrate how you can install multiple Add-in Express Microsoft Office Add-ins without building multiple setup programs. Start by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio
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Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – CompleteReplacement region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 25th, 2011
In version 6.4 of Add-in Express for Office and .net that we published just yesterday, a new Inspector region type is introduced - CompleteReplacement. I think it's a good idea to begin our inspector regions series with this region, it's always a fun to learn something new... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express visual designers – skip coding your custom Office components, simply draw them!
Ty Anderson | March 25th, 2011
Office developers like to build solutions of all shapes and sizes. And if we only compare building of Office solutions to building buildings, we'll see that the fun part is the stuff you can see like the doors and the windows the façade and the paint – all the things that are visually appealing, the things that your users notice. The less desirable part of buildings is the stuff you don't see, perhaps the plumbing... Read the rest of this entry →