Posts Tagged ‘C#’
Dmitry Kostochko | December 5th, 2009
This sample starts the new series of visual HowTo. We thought it would be a good idea to give you a sort of hands on training with Add-in Express. Today we are going to look at one of the most frequent tasks, creating a COM add-in for Microsoft Office....
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Excel, Office, Ribbon, task panes, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Dmitry Kostochko | November 6th, 2009
In the previous sample, I showed how to get the PR_ATTACH_SIZE Extended MAPI property that returns the size of an Attachment object. To be more precise, it returns the size of the attached file and the size of some internal info. In most cases that makeweight does not matter at all...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, MAPI, Object model, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Dmitry Kostochko | August 21st, 2009
In one of the previous posts, we examined the possibilities of retrieving properties from Outlook MailItem when dragging this item onto your custom form. Here is that post: How to get properties of an Outlook email item drag-and-dropped onto a .NET form. But what if the Advanced Region is in a Minimized state? In this case the form is hidden and none of the standard events will work...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio, Word |
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Dmitry Kostochko | June 26th, 2009
In general, you can have IE add-ons interact with standalone applications by using Windows messages and the Shared (static in C#) GetModulesByTypeName method of the AddinExpress.IE.ADXIEModule class. There is just one limitation: both processes (IE with your add-on and standalone application) must be running in the same Integrity Level...
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.NET, C#, IE add-ons, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Dmitry Kostochko | June 19th, 2009
Nearly every software has some settings. An Internet Explorer plug-in is not an exception. The IE plug-in settings can be stored either in a file or in a registry branch, all is simple and transparent about this. But how to ensure the settings synchronization for all active instances of the IE plug-in in all running Internet Explorer processes?...
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.NET, C#, IE add-ons, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Dmitry Kostochko | June 12th, 2009
The Protected Mode feature was introduced in Internet Explorer 7 and continues to exist in Internet Explorer 8. Nearly at the same time when the Protected Mode feature appeared Microsoft introduced Protected Mode API for developers to use this feature. All API functions are implemented in the Add-in Express for Internet Explorer and .net product and today we are going to look into their capabilities...
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.NET, C#, IE add-ons, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Dmitry Kostochko | May 8th, 2009
It would be true to say "get" rather than "convert". There could be only one right way – to use Extended MAPI. Another method is described in the MSDN article: How to retrieve alternate e-mail addresses by using CDO, but we will not see into this approach, because CDO is optional in Outlook 2003 and is absent completely in Outlook 2007...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, MAPI, Object model, Outlook, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Dmitry Kostochko | May 1st, 2009
In Office 2007 there are 3 available color schemes – Black, Blue and Silver. The background of controls in command bars and ribbon tabs is changed by Office automatically. Do you want to try changing the background of your Outlook forms and Excel task panes when the MS Office color scheme is changed?...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Excel, Object model, Outlook, Outlook regions, task panes, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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Eugene Starostin | May 1st, 2009
Strange things mentioned in my previous post continue to happen. To the bug successfully fixed in the Office Live Add-in on Excel 2007, there's added a nasty and so far no-solution problem with the same add-in, this time on Word 2003...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Delphi, Office, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO, Word |
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Eugene Starostin | April 29th, 2009
When Outlook is closing, Add-in Express saves the state of all regions embedded into Outlook, namely their position (if drag-and-drop is turned on), state (regions can be minimized or entirely hidden) and size (if resizing is allowed). We implemented this feature just to give end-users the utmost comfort when working with Outlook regions...
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.NET, C#, Delphi, Excel, Outlook, Outlook regions, VB.NET, Visual Studio, VSTO |
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Eugene Starostin | April 29th, 2009
In version 2009 of Add-in Express, a new property appears - RestoreFromMinimizedState. Now I will show you its behavior. Let's say, we have a minimized by default region...
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.NET, C#, Delphi, Excel, Outlook, Outlook regions, task panes, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Dmitry Kostochko | April 24th, 2009
Add-in Express 2008 allows placing several forms into one Outlook region or task pane. In addition, Add-in Express 2009 enables the end-user to drag and drop custom forms to wherever they want to (naturally, with the developer's permission). Do you need to know where your form is now and in what state? Of course, you do...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Outlook, Outlook regions, task panes, VB.NET, Visual Studio |
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