‘Add-in Express for Office and .net’ category archive
How to check programmatically if the user is editing an Excel cell
Andrei Smolin | March 23rd, 2011
Here's a typical scenario: your code modifying a workbook fails because the user types something into a cell. Now how to determine that Excel is in the edit mode?
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How to customize Office 2010 and 2007 Ribbon with your own tabs or controls
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 22nd, 2011
In today's post I'll demonstrate how you can insert your own ribbon tabs (for Office 2007-2010) and controls (for Office 2000-2003) before or after Office's built-in tabs or controls. I'll also show you how you can add an existing built-in Office control to your own ribbon tab... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – DockBottom region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 18th, 2011
Now the turn has come to the last of the Explorer regions, and today we are going to create the DockBottom region. This specific region, supported by Outlook 2007 and 2010, resides underneath the Navigation Pane, Outlook super grid pane (list of items) and To-Do bar... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create advanced view and form regions with Add-in Express Regions for Microsoft Outlook and VSTO
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 17th, 2011
In this post I'll introduce you to the new Add-in Express Regions for Microsoft Outlook and Visual Studio Tools for Office. To get started, create a new Outlook 2010 Add-in project in Visual Studio 2010... Read the rest of this entry →
Announcing our newest product: Add-in Express Regions for Microsoft Outlook and VSTO
Eric Legault | March 16th, 2011
We're very pleased to announce the availability of the newest addition to our powerhouse line-up of leading edge, RAD development tools for building Microsoft Office solutions with Visual Studio: Add-in Express Regions for Microsoft Outlook and VSTO!
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Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – DockRight region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 11th, 2011
The DockRight region is a special region type that is supported by Outlook 2007 and 2010 only. It is located on the right of the To-Do bar. In this video how-to we are going to create a new DockRight region and bind it to Outlook folders containing Mail, Appointment, Contacts and Task items... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: How Add-in Express makes Office development rewarding
Ty Anderson | March 10th, 2011
Office development is a rewarding experience providing you the developer using Visual Studio the opportunity to impact the lives of users of all shapes and sizes. Using Office as the development platform, you can build solutions that integrate with your users' business processes and simplify their life... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: How Microsoft Office abuses its developers and how Add-in Express stops this
Ty Anderson | March 10th, 2011
If you have any experience in developing solutions on the Office platform, you have most likely learnt that Office has the tendency to abuse its developers. One of the main reasons for this is that Office is comprised of several different applications like Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word, and each of these applications has their own object model that you need to understand and master when building your solutions... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – DockTop region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 4th, 2011
The region that we are going to scrutinize today is DockTop. This is a special region type that works only in Outlook 2007 and 2010... Read the rest of this entry →
Redeploying Office extensions via ClickTwice
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | March 1st, 2011
This is the final part of the series that describes all possible ways of deploying your Add-in Express-based Office extensions. I recommend that you begin from the very beginning: Step-by-step deployment of Office extensions: Overview. Or, if you are interested only in ClickTwice :) deployment, you can start right away with Deploying Office extensions via ClickTwice :)... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying Office extensions via ClickTwice
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 28th, 2011
Part 7 of the deployment series explains how you can use your favorite installer software to deploy your Office extensions over the web; this is the essence of ClickTwice :). If you didn’t read the previous parts of the series, I'd advise that you start with Part 1 - a brief overview of the available deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via Group Policy
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 25th, 2011
This is part 6 of the deployment series that targets corporate deployment techniques and provides step-by-step instructions for deploying your per-machine Office extensions via Group Policy. I recommend that you start with reading Part 1 that gives a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – DockLeft region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 25th, 2011
With a little regret I proceed to the final part of the video how-to series covering Outlook explorer regions. We have just 4 more explorer regions to look into - DockLeft, DockTop, DockRight and DockBottom... Read the rest of this entry →
Redeploying per-user Office extensions via ClickOnce
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 24th, 2011
This is part 5 of the series of articles which describes all possible ways of deploying your Office extensions based on Add-in Express. I recommend you starting from the very beginning: Step-by-step deployment of Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via ClickOnce
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 24th, 2011
In part 4 of the deployment series I will show you how to deploy your per-user Office extension using ClickOnce. Before we proceed, I recommend that you read Part 1 for a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Extend Your World – with our newest product
Eric Legault | February 24th, 2011
We here at Add-in Express like to boast that our products can help you take control of your projects, and take over the more mundane (and sometimes incredibly frustrating) aspects of add-in development. After all, our tools are focused on Rapid Application Development (RAD)... Read the rest of this entry →