‘Add-in Express for Office and .net’ category archive
How to replace built-in Outlook dialogs with custom forms
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 5th, 2012
Years ago I found this article by Helmut Obertanner on CodeProject. In this article Helmut explains how you can replace the built-in Outlook Address book dialog with your own form. I was amazed and intrigued! This approach is a great way to provide your users with a custom address form that is able to retrieve contact address information from literally any source e.g. CRM or customer database... Read the rest of this entry →
How to merge several Office add-in projects into one binary
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 27th, 2012
Before we have a look at the sample project, let's first examine the scenario for when you might want to consider using this approach. In the case of the Ultimate Suite for Excel, loading was a crucial factor, by following this approach the team effectively reduced the loading time by nearly 60%, because only one assembly needs to be loaded instead of 20+ separate ones
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Creating modular Office add-ins using Add-in Express
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 19th, 2012
When creating a new Office extension with Add-in Express for Office and .net you have the option to design your entire add-in user interface using our visual designers, by simply dropping the various components on the design surface of the AddinModule. This is fine for most Office add-ins especially when you do not require a […]... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Create add-ins for Office 2007, 2010 and 2013 with a shared ribbon tab
Eugene Astafiev | November 5th, 2012
Office developers need to merge the UI of their add-ins into a single ribbon tab. Just imagine the following scenario: a user wants to install a few COM add-ins from the same vendor. Are they going to get a separate ribbon tab for each add-in's UI?... Read the rest of this entry →
Create custom Outlook menus: VB.NET and C# for Outlook 2013-2003
Ty Anderson | October 22nd, 2012
It looks like Microsoft is going to go ahead and release Office 2013 sooner rather than later. I suppose you can argue they already have with the recent pre-ordering of Windows Surface (which comes with Office 2013 RT). Whether or not you consider Office 2013 RT to really be Office is up to you. It can be your opinion
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How To: Customize the context ribbon of Outlook 2013 inline response
Eugene Astafiev | October 19th, 2012
After Microsoft published the Preview version of Office 2013 we started to receive lots of questions regarding built-in ribbon control IDs. Developers wanted to support the new Microsoft Office version but couldn't find the required information on MSDN. ... Read the rest of this entry →
How to avoid “Outlook detected a problem with an add-in”. Tips & tricks for Office 2013 developers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 9th, 2012
If you've read my last article, you would've seen I mentioned that Outlook 2013 has become a lot stricter when checking add-in performance for such metrics as add-in start-up, shutdown, item open and folder switching. If you do have a few misbehaving plug-ins, you might also have seen this new information bar when starting Outlook 2013 "A problem was detected with an add-in and it has been disabled"
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What’s new in Outlook 2013 for Microsoft Office developers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 3rd, 2012
The new Office brought with it some mayor changes and we've been focusing on the biggest change: the new app framework. But, Apps for Office is not the only new feature, Outlook 2013 Preview brings with it the following important changes... Read the rest of this entry →
Word 2013 apps and addin development – 7 questions developers should ask
Ty Anderson | September 6th, 2012
If you are developer that targets Word 2013 and are looking to understand what new & shiny bits are available for you to use in your solutions… you are in the right URL
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Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012 are supported by the new version of Add-in Express!
Dmitry Kostochko | August 31st, 2012
As I promised a few weeks ago, the new version of Add-in Express for Office and .net is out! It adds support for Microsoft Office 2013 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 2012... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook 2013 development & customization: 7 questions developers should ask
Ty Anderson | August 24th, 2012
What are Mail Apps and why would I build one? Okay, first off, this is two questions rolled into one. So technically, you are already getting a deal from today's newswire… 8 questions for the price of 7. With that in mind, let's continue.
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Video: Create Office add-ins with a single code base
Ty Anderson | August 23rd, 2012
This is a preview and a quick demo of the next generation of Add-in Express for Office and .net that adds support for Microsoft Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012. The new version fits perfectly with VS 2012 and provides a true rapid application development experience like all previous Add-in Express versions... Read the rest of this entry →
How to customize context / right click menu of Excel 2013, 2010 and lower: C# sample
Dmitry Kostochko | August 22nd, 2012
Right-click menus of Microsoft Office applications are a very convenient option for the end-user to interact with the host application. And for us, COM add-in developers, creating a custom menu for our users could be just a piece of cake... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create PowerPoint add-in in C#: scheduled PPT presentation
Pieter van der Westhuizen | August 3rd, 2012
Microsoft PowerPoint is a long-time member of the Microsoft Office family of products, and you've probably seen a fair share of PowerPoint presentations. Although PowerPoint has been part of Microsoft Office since 1990, we've never really written any articles on writing add-ins for it using Add-in Express... Read the rest of this entry →
How to develop Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003 add-in: Outlook objects and events
Ty Anderson | August 2nd, 2012
We're making our way through this short series covering Outlook add-in development. If you missed the previous parts, I highly recommend them, not just because I wrote. No no… because they are essential to understanding this edition, Part 3... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: All about Outlook.com – Microsoft’s new Metro style email service
Ty Anderson | August 1st, 2012
I know I have said it a few times here in the Office Newswire but I'll say it again. I believe Microsoft's MOJO has returned and that it is big. In fact, it is growing as we see from yesterday's news about Outlook.com and the over 1,000,000 signups on its first day... Read the rest of this entry →