Posts Tagged ‘COM add-ins’
How To: Create and send an Outlook message programmatically
Eugene Astafiev | September 2nd, 2011
Today I want to tell you the story about sending messages in Outlook programmatically. In one of my recent posts I showed two possible ways of creating and showing a new Outlook message. And now I want to make an addition to that: demonstrate how you can send a message programmatically... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Developing an Excel Automation Add-in
Ty Anderson | August 31st, 2011
As a follow up to the Creating managed Excel UDFs video, here is a video that explains how to build UDFs using Excel Automation add-ins. In addition to a solid demo, this video explains the differences between an UDF built with an Automation Addin and one built as an XLL... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Create a new Outlook message based on a template
Eugene Astafiev | August 31st, 2011
In my previous article, where I demonstrated how to create and show an Outlook message programmatically, a mail item object was created from scratch. Now I want to show you the way to create a new mail item based on a template... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create and show a new Outlook mail item programmatically: C#, VB.NET
Eugene Astafiev | August 26th, 2011
One of the most widespread tasks in Outlook is creating and showing an e-mail item to the user programmatically (or just sending it silently). Today I will teach you how to do it in two different manners.... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Get Outlook e-mail item’s custom properties – C# and VB.NET samples
Eugene Astafiev | August 24th, 2011
In my previous article How To: Add a custom property to the UserProperties collection of an e-mail item in Outlook I showed you the way to add a custom property to the UserProperties collection of an e-mail item in Outlook. Now I want to demonstrate you how to iterate over all user properties of an e-mail item... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Add a custom property to the UserProperties collection of an Outlook e-mail item
Eugene Astafiev | August 19th, 2011
Today I want to tell you the story about Outlook user properties. Each item in Outlook such as MailItem, AppointmentItem, ContactItem and etc. (except for the NoteItem) provides you with the UserProperties property which returns an instance of the UserProperties class... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Get a list of Outlook attachments
Eugene Astafiev | August 15th, 2011
As a developer, sometimes you may want to know what is attached to the e-mail you have selected or opened in Outlook. Today I will show you how to iterate over the attachments collection and get the required information about attached items, such as file name, display name and type... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Add an existing Outlook e-mail message as an attachment
Eugene Astafiev | August 12th, 2011
Now I want to show you how to attach an e-mail instead of a regular file. For such task I created a simple method in the code called AddMessageAsAttachment. This method attaches a MailItem object to the e-mail message and accepts two parameters: the first is the container e-mail message and the second one is an e-mail message which should be attached... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Get any standard / default folder in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | August 5th, 2011
One of the most common tasks in Outlook programming a developer may face is getting a standard folder. Here I will show you how to get it... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Extending Business Contact Manager
Ty Anderson | July 20th, 2011
Business Contact Manager (BCM) is Microsoft's attempt to a nice CRM tool to the small and medium-sized business market. It has its pros and cons but overall, I think they succeeded. Business Contact Manager resides within Microsoft Outlook, which makes perfect sense. Using BCM, users can seamlessly track leads, projects, employees, marketing campaigns and more... Read the rest of this entry →
How to allow a user to choose target MS Office applications during installation
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 5th, 2011
In today's post I'll demonstrate how you can customize your add-in setup project to allow your users to select which Microsoft Office applications the add-in will be installed for. I am using Add-in Exprewss 2010 for Office and .net... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Handling Office keyboard shortcuts
Ty Anderson | June 22nd, 2011
For almost every menu and/or Ribbon command in Microsoft Office, there is a keyboard shortcut for it. These shortcuts allow you to quickly and easy execute a command with a key stroke that might take several clicks of the mouse... Read the rest of this entry →
Customize Office 2010 Ribbon UI programmatically
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 21st, 2011
The Microsoft Office Ribbon is probably one component we all use in almost every MS Office add-in. In today's post we'll take a closer look at the Office 2010 Fluent Ribbon UI as well as various ways you can customize it to fit your needs... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Localizing your Office COM add-in
Ty Anderson | June 15th, 2011
Internet Explorer is the world's most popular browser which makes it a nice target for custom solutions. Using Add-in Express helps you build Office COM Add-ins that your users love. As a result, you might be looking to expand to different markets… markets that probably do not speak you language. As a result, you are looking to build a localized version or versions of your add-in... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating integrated Office solutions with Add-in Express
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 7th, 2011
Add-in Express enables you as a developer to quickly and easily create, not just MS Office add-ins but also Excel XLL add-ins, Excel Real-time data (RTD) servers and smart tags. In this post I'll demonstrate how you could include all this functionality in one Visual Studio project. Start by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Fully featured setup projects for Office solutions
Ty Anderson | May 26th, 2011
It's well known that Add-in Express simplifies Office development via our support for multiple types of Office based solutions. But perhaps you don't know that one of our best features is how we simplify deployment via support of 4 base deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →