Posts Tagged ‘C#’
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 →
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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Building a Real-Time Data server: Utility functions; building help, part 12
Maurice Calvert | January 27th, 2011
Hoping again for re-use, I created a little utility library which contains some general-purpose functions that you may find useful... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server: Changing the Excel RTD Throttle Interval, part 11
Maurice Calvert | January 26th, 2011
By default, Excel won't call RefreshData more often than every 2 seconds (the Throttle Interval). For financial data that's arriving fast and furiously, this is reasonable, but for GeodesiX it makes the interface seem rather slow... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server for Excel: Creating the Setup project, part 10
Maurice Calvert | January 25th, 2011
In part 2: Avoiding VSTO, I lauded Add-in Express for having such an easy interface to create a Steup Project. I stand by what I said, but GeodesiX goes a fair bit further than just implementing a few Excel UDFs. The problem that have to address is... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server: Embedding a GoogleMap page in an Excel Task Pane, part 9
Maurice Calvert | January 24th, 2011
Another short subject, but worthy of a few remarks. The GoogleMaps taskpane is implemented in a separate project, hopefully re-usable. The task pane is created in Geodesix.AddinModule #27#, which also contains the event handlers
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Building a Real Time Data for Excel: Avoiding Application Domain misery, part 8
Maurice Calvert | January 21st, 2011
This is a short but important subject (assuming you're using Addin Express for Office and .net). There are 3 types of Add-in Express module used in Geodesix
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Building a Real Time Data server for Excel: Talking to the GoogleMaps APIs, part 7
Maurice Calvert | January 20th, 2011
This subject is already extremely well documented here, so I'll just point you to the relevant code. The call to GoogleMaps is at #7# in Geodesic.Resolve.Resolve... Read the rest of this entry →
Building an Excel Real Time Data server: Providing easy-to-read function names, part 6
Maurice Calvert | January 19th, 2011
Geeks like us have no qualms about typing =RTD("Geodesix.RTD",,"geocode","status","Tokyo") in an Excel cell to get a value. Normal people find this a bit clumsy, and it would be nice to humour them. Excel provides a way to this quite simply
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Building a Real Time Data: Excel, multithreading and callbacks, part 5
Maurice Calvert | January 18th, 2011
Excel's muilti-threading is a strange beast. As we saw in part 4: Building a Real Time Data for Excel: Architecture, Excel calls happily but won't receive unsolicited calls. This is perfectly reasonable once you understand the Windows message pump, if the UI thread is waiting on a Dialog box, it can't accept other work... Read the rest of this entry →
How to add a custom header to your Outlook form or task pane: C# and VB.NET
Dmitry Kostochko | January 17th, 2011
Usual Add-in Express advanced region or task pane can has a header - a multi-functional area above the region that allows the end-user to minimize the region, close it or switch between forms located in the same region... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data for Excel: Architecture, part 4
Maurice Calvert | January 17th, 2011
This is part 4 of the tutorial that describes the techniques necessary to build an Excel RTD server. If you have just come to this page, I suggest you read all parts in order, here is Building a Real Time Data for Excel, part 1. Putting together an RTD server is not particularly difficult… once you […]... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data for Excel: How RTD servers work, part 3
Maurice Calvert | January 14th, 2011
There are plenty of articles on Excel RTD programming, but I've yet to see one that correctly addresses the issues of multi-tasking. All the examples rely on a toy timer-driven application, which is not how real-world applications work
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Announcing two new “Power Toys” for Outlook
Eric Legault | January 13th, 2011
While our Add-in Express Toys illustrate how to use our framework to build add-ins in general (the current samples are for Outlook, Excel, Word and Internet Explorer), our new super-premium high-octane (but still FREE!) Add-in Express Power Toys go one step further by adding missing functionality to our favourite Office applications!... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server for Excel: Avoiding VSTO, part 2
Maurice Calvert | January 13th, 2011
When I first started programming addins for MS Office, I took the obvious road of installing Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). It all seemed rather easy and I had a toy excel addin completed in the first evening. My enthusiasm was quickly doused when I tried to deploy the addin. ... Read the rest of this entry →