Posts Tagged ‘COM add-ins’
Andrei Smolin | July 20th, 2020
Just recently we've got a comment declaring one of our blogs on releasing COM objects "wrong and misleading": the author says Marshal.ReleasingComObject() and related things made him spend "lots of time on writing code that is totally unnecessary" and provides many links supporting the idea that you can use GC.Collect() to get rid of non-released COM objects....
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.NET, COM add-ins, Excel, Object model, Outlook, Word |
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Andrei Smolin | July 1st, 2020
Quick news: we've developed a new version of sample COM add-in projects that we provide in the downloadable archive on the Add-in Express .NET Downloads page...
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C#, COM add-ins, Excel, Object model, Office, Outlook, Outlook regions, PowerPoint, Project, Ribbon, task panes, VB.NET, Word |
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Andrei Smolin | February 27th, 2019
The number of users having the Office version installed from Microsoft Store increases every day as computer vendors install it by default; see e.g. this support article from Dell. Per-user add-ins and some per-machine add-ins may run into a severe issue with that Office version. The issue is: the add-in uses old versions...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Deployment, Office 365 |
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Dmitry Kostochko | March 16th, 2017
A couple of days ago, we published a new minor version of Add-in Express for Office and .NET that fully supports the newly released Visual Studio 2017. Now you can use any version of VS 2010 to VS 2017 to quickly create world-class extensions for all Microsoft Office versions and applications from prototype to final release...
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COM add-ins, Visual Studio |
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Andrei Smolin | February 2nd, 2017
Let's start with the conclusion: you can deeply customize the UI and behavior of the MSI installer of your Add-in Express based Office extension using a ClickTwice custom action. To see how this works, build the project below, install the add-in by starting the MSI installer, and have a closer look at that installer's UI...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Deployment |
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The Office 2016 release is upon us and it is time we start having a closer look at the new features and changes in Outlook as well as what new extensibility the new Office 2016 platform offers to Outlook developers...
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COM add-ins |
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