Posts Tagged ‘C#’
Advanced region events: how to know that the user expanded your form?
Fedor Shihantsov | January 11th, 2011
Hello folks! Through our forums and e-mail, we are frequently asked questions like this by our fellow developers: How do I know that the user expanded my Add-in Express form? In this article, I will cover the events that are raised when the region is expanded and other events that occur when the region's state is changed... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Outlook context sensitivity
Ty Anderson | December 23rd, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, Pieter wrote a great post that explains how to use context sensitivity when customizing the Outlook user interface. Context sensitivity allows you to dynamically change the user interface depending upon what the user is doing within Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →
How to highlight Outlook forms programmatically
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 14th, 2010
Version 6.3 of Add-in Express for Office and .net provides us with a new method to highlight form regions in Microsoft Outlook. Let's test the new method by creating a new Visual Studio 2010 ADX COM Add-in project... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Outlook 2010 Solution Modules
Ty Anderson | December 13th, 2010
In Office 2010, Microsoft introduced the Outlook solutions module to give us developers the capability to create custom modules for Outlook. What's a custom module? It's an Outlook add-in that... Read the rest of this entry →
100% version neutrality for your Office extensions
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 13th, 2010
Finally, when you completed your add-in, there is no need to build separate setup programs for different versions of Office. Generating a setup program is as simple as right-clicking your project in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer and selecting Create Setup Project from the context menu... Read the rest of this entry →
New designers for region and task pane managers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 6th, 2010
Version 6.3 of Add-in Express brings with it a number of new features. One of which is the new in-place designers for the following components... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook context sensitivity: show custom UI for certain folders and items types
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 1st, 2010
Add-in Express makes it possible to display your custom UI elements based on various Outlook components. Elements such as toolbars, toolbar controls, ribbon tabs, ribbon tab controls or Advanced Form Regions can be hidden or displayed based on what the user is doing in Outlook at any given moment... Read the rest of this entry →
Advanced Outlook form regions: customize an e-mail form
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 16th, 2010
Today, I would like to show you how to add extra functionality to the Outlook Inspector objects using advanced regions and Add-in Express 2010. Start by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio 2010.... Read the rest of this entry →
Customizing Outlook calendar with Advanced regions: C# sample
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 25th, 2010
Today, we'll write an add-in to display calendar specific information in Outlook 2010 using Outlook advanced regions and Add-in Express 2010. Start of in the usual fashion by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio 2010
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Build an Outlook Northwind Connector with Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 18th, 2010
The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector did not always play nicely together with Add-in Express Advanced regions, however, Add-in Express rose to the occasion and it is working since Version 6.2.3049. Although we are able to build our own provider for the standard Outlook Social Connector; Northwind Traders needed something that would work perfectly alongside their […]... Read the rest of this entry →
MS Outlook Advanced Regions, Folder Views and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 11th, 2010
In this week's post, we'll build an add-in for Northwind Traders with which they will be able to set a different view on their Inbox in order to see a time-based view on when orders have been received. We'll be using an advance forms region to give our users an easy-to-use interface... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Project 2010: COM add-in development
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 7th, 2010
In this weeks' post I'll demonstrate how using Add-in Express 2010, you can write an add-in to integrate MS Office Project 2010 and MS Office Outlook 2010 and vice versa... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create add-ins for Office Access 2010: C#, VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 27th, 2010
I'm sure like me, a lot of IT professionals had customers who made a substantial investment in developing a custom application in MS Access. As is the nature of such things, the customer outgrows their MS Access application and is soon in need of a larger, more complex system... Read the rest of this entry →
Visio 2010: Writing COM add-ins in C# and VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 20th, 2010
The beauty about Add-in Express is that it allows you to write add-ins for those Microsoft Office applications that you wouldn't even have thought it possible. In this post I'll show you how to create an add-in for MS Visio 2010 that automatically builds an Organizational chart for Northwind Traders.
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Video: Create an Office shared add-in – building the GUI
Ty Anderson | September 13th, 2010
I like to tinker with new technologies to see what they can do and how I could potentially use them in the solutions I build for my clients. A lot of the times my tinkering never leads to full understanding of the technology. In such cases, I don't blame myself nor my sometimes fickle love for the latest shiny bits... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Add-in Express 2010, part 3
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 13th, 2010
When most organisations buy MS Dynamics CRM they probably already made an investment in systems to help them manage their business processes. In this post I'll demonstrate how you can use Add-in Express 2010 to easily leverage Northwinds' (Our Customer) existing web ordering system and import orders received from the internet into MS Dynamics CRM from within MS Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →