Ty Anderson | July 8th, 2013
In this article, the first in a series of Word development topics, I'll cover Microsoft Word application and base objects. And, as is our tradition, I'll provide relevant code samples for Word 2013 - 2000 you can copy and paste into your solutions...
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.NET, COM add-ins, VB.NET, Word |
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The Mail Merge functionality in Microsoft Word is one of the most powerful features that enables you to create, amongst other things, simple form letters. It is, however, one of the tricky things to get your head around when trying to automate it in either an Office add-in or a stand-alone application using the Word Object model...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Visual Studio, Word |
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I've been using ASP.Net MVC since its version 2 release back in 2010 and recently I've also been helping companies harness the power of ASP.Net MVC to migrate some of their desktop software to the web. Even though the MVC framework was built on top of the existing ASP.Net framework, it does not include visual designers as with ASP.Net Web forms...
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ASP.NET |
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Ty Anderson | July 2nd, 2013
With the recent Beginning Outlook Development series complete, we thought it would be a good idea to do a demo that shows how easy/simple/relatively painless it is to build a powerful Outlook add-in with Visual Studio ...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Outlook, Outlook regions, Ribbon, VB.NET |
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Customizing the built-in Microsoft Office ribbon groups is something that many people have tried but they usually hit a brick wall in the process. Unfortunately, it is not possible to customize the built-in ribbon groups, however, you can create your custom Office ribbon group and "replace" the built-in group with your own...
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.NET, C#, Excel, Ribbon |
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Ty Anderson | June 20th, 2013
Office Mobile for iPhone is now available for Office 365 subscribers. The fact is that Office for iOS only supports the iPhone. Microsoft if fighting a multi-front war. They can’t simply release Office for iOS and have it support both the iPhone and the iPad. If they did that it would kill the Surface tablet ...
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Office |
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Ty Anderson | June 13th, 2013
Microsoft Outlook is more than an email application running on the desktop or the browser. It's an application for managing the details of living (work, home, social, and anti-social, what-have-you). It's time for Outlook to accept its maturity and reinvent itself...
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Outlook |
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Outlook tasks are a great way to keep track of things you need to do. I use it every single day! A task item is a standard Outlook type and by default all tasks are flagged for follow-up when created. When any items such as an e-mail, task or contact are flagged for follow-up it automatically becomes a to-do item and is visible in your To-do bar...
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.NET, C#, Office 365, Outlook, Visual Studio |
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Ty Anderson | June 10th, 2013
Yeah sure, email is front and center with Outlook. But right behind it and ready to steal the show is the Outlook calendar. If you aren't looking at email, I bet you are looking at your calendar to see if you can meet at such-and-such time on such-and-such date...
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.NET, Office 2013, Outlook regions, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Ty Anderson | June 3rd, 2013
Mail items are the featured player of Outlook… email! Sure, contacts and appointments are regulars but email receives the most attention. We are addicted to the stuff. And as an Outlook plug-in developer, you need to know the basics....
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.NET, Office 2013, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Any user of Microsoft Outlook will tell you that you cannot use Outlook without first setting up an account. This account can either be an Exchange server, POP or IMAP account, although Outlook can support any MAPI style account too....
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Outlook, Visual Studio |
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Ty Anderson | May 30th, 2013
As great as Outlook is, it was not designed to meet 100% of any one user's needs. Therefore, users constantly think of ideas for how we developers can "trick it out". And what do they want? They want custom Outlook forms!...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Office 2013, Outlook, Outlook regions, Visual Studio |
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Ty Anderson | May 24th, 2013
When building an Outlook add-in you will definitely confront scenarios that require custom forms. In these scenarios, you must answer two questions. What does the form need to do? Where does the form need to display?
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Outlook, Outlook regions, Visual Studio |
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The Outlook UI provides a lot of customization options, but one thing almost all Outlook add-ins share is either a ribbon tab or a toolbar or two. The Ribbon UI was introduced in Office 2007 although only the Inspector windows actually used it. The Explorer window still used the traditional menus and toolbars from previous Outlook versions...
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.NET, COM add-ins, CommandBars, Outlook regions, Ribbon |
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Ty Anderson | May 13th, 2013
Often, the focus of an Outlook add-in centers around a custom ribbon or form region. I think this makes sense. They are sexy, upfront, and what everyone wants to see. But they are not enough. A good Outlook solution should provide other user interface customizations that allow the user to execute your solution's logic. These other methods are, arguably, the less-sexy, more utilitarian UI components. I am referring of course to the main menu, context menus, and the backstage....
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Outlook |
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Ty Anderson | April 30th, 2013
In this video, I show how to create an add-in for Microsoft Office 2013 Outlook, Excel and Word and add a custom ribbon using Add-in Express for Office and .net with Visual Studio Express 2012. Enjoy!...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Excel, Office 2013, Outlook, Ribbon, Visual Studio, Word |
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