Posts Tagged ‘COM add-ins’
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Add-in Express 2010, part 2
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 7th, 2010
Welcome to the second part of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM focused blog series. In part 1, we discussed how to customize the MS Dynamics CRM Outlook Client. In this post we'll continue to use Add-in Express 2010 to further customize the Outlook client and provide our users with an alternate user interface to MS Dynamics CRM... Read the rest of this entry →
From VB6 to .NET. At last…
Andrei Smolin | August 13th, 2010
In one of my previous lives, I was a VBA and VB6 developer: ReDim, InStr, Msgbox, If Not Obj Is Nothing and other ugly things were part of that nice life. Now I live another life and have both VB.NET and C# experience gradually shifting to C#. If you are a late wayfarer on the […]... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 26th, 2010
Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is quickly becoming one of the leading CRM Suites for midsized and large organizations according to a recent research report. You might ask how this affects you as Office developer
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Insight of Add-in Express Loader
Sergey Grischenko | July 23rd, 2010
Add-in Express Loader is an unmanaged dll developed with the Visual C++ Active Template Library (ATL). It acts as a proxy between a host application and the real .NET library. The loader itself is never registered and it shouldn’t be. It is just specified as a dll to be loaded for managed classes
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Windows Presentation Foundation, Office 2010 and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 20th, 2010
If you look at the list of known issues for the latest release of Add-in Express 2010, you'll notice a specific issue I myself ran into not so long ago: WebViewPane region cannot be used for folders if their WebViewOn and WebViewUrl properties cannot be set. Possible solution is setting the "Allow Script in shared folders" and "Allow Script in Public Folders" options in the security settings
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HowTo: Communicate with a COM add-in from a standalone application
Dmitry Kostochko | July 2nd, 2010
In order to get a standalone application to communicate with a COM add-in, the application needs to have access to the running host application (Microsoft Excel in our case), get the COMAddins collection, find a needed instance of the add-in there and use reflection to call public methods or retrieve public properties... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Events Logger Add-in – release version
Dmitry Kostochko | July 1st, 2010
Some weeks ago we published Beta 1 of Add-in Express Events Add-in for Outlook, free add-in or rater tool that can help you learn events in the Outlook 2000-2010 Object Model. Today we have the Release version ready... Read the rest of this entry →
Novel way to handle Outlook 2010 Fast Shutdown
Sally Peck | June 28th, 2010
In order to understand how Outlook’s Fast Shutdown mechanism affects your Outlook Add-ins, I have made a utility to test and demonstrate Outlook 2010 fast shutdown mechanism and an example Outlook Add-in... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Build and control advanced form regions for Outlook 2013 – 2000
Ty Anderson | June 25th, 2010
When it comes to building Office add-ins, Microsoft Outlook is perhaps the most popular application. No doubt that Excel and Word are close behind in popularity but Outlook wins this contest. I believe Outlook wins because it is the first application people open when they arrive in their office and it is the last one they close... Read the rest of this entry →
Controlling Outlook region’s state and form’s size in Add-in Express 2010
Fedor Shihantsov | June 25th, 2010
Here I will tell you how and where you can control the state of the regions where a custom task pane or an Outlook region is located, and also show how you can control the size of those forms... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Fast Shutdown: under the yellow hood
Sally Peck | June 17th, 2010
The Fast Shutdown feature found in Outlook 2010 represents a new direction for Microsoft Outlook towards Outlook stability and Outlook integrity. From Microsoft Outlook '97 till Microsoft Outlook 2007, system administrators around the world had to deal with Outlook hanging, Outlook Slow closing, corrupted PST (or OST) files and various Outlook Add-ins that hang for no reason... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2010 as development platform
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 14th, 2010
By the time this blog post is published, the kick-off between South Africa and Mexico officially started the FIFA World Cup 2010! Just as South Africa has come a long way in preparing for the first football World Cup on African soil, so too has Office evolved into a promising and stable platform for developers to deliver ground breaking and exciting solutions for their customers and users... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Security Manager 2010 deployment: Reg Free COM & ClickOnce for Outlook 2010 64-bit, part 5
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | June 4th, 2010
In part 2 of this series HowTo: Deploy Outlook Security Manager with ClickOnce using Reg Free COM we had a close look at how to deploy your standalone application with ClickOnce, if it uses the Outlook Security Manager component... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2010 Solutions Module and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 4th, 2010
I'm sure a lot of us use MS Outlook as our primary application when developing solutions hosted on the MS Office platform or when doing simple productivity enhancing add-ins. Using Outlook is an obvious choice, think about it... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express in-place GUI designers (on an example of Outlook add-in)
Ty Anderson | June 3rd, 2010
A key component of any Office add-in is the custom UI you develop for your users. And with Office, your add-in almost always requires a button or two in the Office menu or Ribbon. Add-in Express has long made it easy to build custom menus (aka CommandBars) and Ribbons... Read the rest of this entry →
Get insight of Outlook event chains with Events Add-in for Outlook
Dmitry Kostochko | June 3rd, 2010
Every developer who writes Outlook plug-ins must know the Outlook Object Model to a greater or lesser extent. And what is of the highest importance in the Outlook object model as well as in that of any other host app?... Read the rest of this entry →