Posts Tagged ‘COM add-ins’
How to check programmatically if the user is editing an Excel cell
Andrei Smolin | March 23rd, 2011
Here's a typical scenario: your code modifying a workbook fails because the user types something into a cell. Now how to determine that Excel is in the edit mode?
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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 →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – DockBottom region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 18th, 2011
Now the turn has come to the last of the Explorer regions, and today we are going to create the DockBottom region. This specific region, supported by Outlook 2007 and 2010, resides underneath the Navigation Pane, Outlook super grid pane (list of items) and To-Do bar... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express Regions for Outlook and VSTO
Ty Anderson | March 16th, 2011
A couple of weeks ago Eric Legault made mention of the new Add-in Express product known as Add-in Express Regions for Outlook and VSTO. I've had the pleasure of working with this new product for several weeks and I think it is a winner... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – DockRight region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 11th, 2011
The DockRight region is a special region type that is supported by Outlook 2007 and 2010 only. It is located on the right of the To-Do bar. In this video how-to we are going to create a new DockRight region and bind it to Outlook folders containing Mail, Appointment, Contacts and Task items... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: How Add-in Express makes Office development rewarding
Ty Anderson | March 10th, 2011
Office development is a rewarding experience providing you the developer using Visual Studio the opportunity to impact the lives of users of all shapes and sizes. Using Office as the development platform, you can build solutions that integrate with your users' business processes and simplify their life... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: How Microsoft Office abuses its developers and how Add-in Express stops this
Ty Anderson | March 10th, 2011
If you have any experience in developing solutions on the Office platform, you have most likely learnt that Office has the tendency to abuse its developers. One of the main reasons for this is that Office is comprised of several different applications like Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word, and each of these applications has their own object model that you need to understand and master when building your solutions... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – DockTop region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 4th, 2011
The region that we are going to scrutinize today is DockTop. This is a special region type that works only in Outlook 2007 and 2010... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – DockLeft region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 25th, 2011
With a little regret I proceed to the final part of the video how-to series covering Outlook explorer regions. We have just 4 more explorer regions to look into - DockLeft, DockTop, DockRight and DockBottom... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – ReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 18th, 2011
In the last video of the Reading Pane customization series we are going to show you how to replace the entire Reading Pane with our custom region. The ReadingPane advanced region is a special region type... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – BottomReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 11th, 2011
This is one more example of the Outlook Reading Pane customization, and today we will cover the BottomReadingPane region. In this video we are going to create a new advanced region and locate it beneath the Outlook Reading Pane... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – building advanced task panes and advanced Outlook regions, using advanced controls
Ty Anderson | February 7th, 2011
I admit it…it's been awhile since we published Part 1. So I don't blame you if gave up hope of ever seeing Part 2. But I'm here to tell you that you have not waited in vain because today we present to you Part 2 of the Create an Office Shared Add-in series... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – RightReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 4th, 2011
As you can guess from the title of this post, today it is the turn for the RightReadingPane region. In this video HowTo sample, we are going to create a new region residing to the right of the Outlook Reading Pane, and we'll add just a little code there... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – TopReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | January 28th, 2011
This is yet another sample of the Outlook Reading Pane customizations, in which we look into the capabilities of the TopReadingPane region... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – LeftReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | January 21st, 2011
After a short break, let's go on with the serious of our small HowTo samples. Now it's time to look into different ways of customizing the Outlook Reading Pane... 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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