Posts Tagged ‘COM add-ins’

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector toolbars (VB.NET)

Today we are going to explore the capabilities of the ADXOlInspectorCommandBar component that you can use to add your own toolbars and modify existing ones in Outlook 2000, XP and 2003. This component as well as ADXOlExplorerCommandBar is context-sensitive... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Modify Outlook Inspector command bars (VSTO)

This visual sample highlights the capacities of the ADXOlInspectorCommandBar component that you can use to add your own toolbars and modify existing ones in Outlook 2003. Like ADXOlExplorerCommandBar, this component is also context-sensitive... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector in a VB.NET COM add-in

A couple of weeks ago I came across an interesting article on MSDN - Building a C++ Add-in for Outlook 2010. Aha, Outlook 2010, I need to scrutinize it when I have a spare minute, definitely I will find something remarkable there. This is what I thought when added a new task with the link to that article to my TODO list. Well, I've got a spare minute today... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector menu (VB.NET)

This is yet another short HowTo sample of the serious exploring all possible ways of the Outlook UI customization. And today we will show you how to customize the Inspector main menu in Outlook 2000-2003... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector menu (VSTO)

We continue a series of short video HowTo samples that focus on various ways of customizing the Outlook user interface. Today we are going to look into the main menu of Outlook 2003 Inspector... Read the rest of this entry →

HowTo: Register your MS Office add-in with WiX

If you are using Microsoft’s WiX toolset to build a setup for your Add-In, then there are several ways to register the Add-In. I’ve seen examples that use a custom action to call RegSvr32.exe to do the registration. But since RegSvr32.exe does nothing more than calling the DllRegisterServer function of our Add-In, why not calling that directly from a custom action?... Read the rest of this entry →

Add-in Express for Office – Generation 2010 roadmap

We started Generation 2010 in November, 2009 and even had time to release Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer. As for "Office", for quite a long time there have been more questions than answers. And, quite naturally, we've been dependent not only on the plans of Microsoft but Embarcadero's schedule as well... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Explorer using Add-in Express regions (VB.NET)

This video HowTo showcases the capabilities of Add-in Express Advanced Regions for customizing Outlook 2000 - 2007 views. Using advanced regions you can embed your .net form into a native Outlook view and customize such Outlook Explorer parts as Reading Pane, List of items (Supergrid), place your custom form under the Navigation Pane, etc... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Explorer using Add-in Express Regions (VSTO)

Today's HowTo sample is devoted to the capabilities of Add-in Express Advanced Regions for modifying Outlook 2007 views. You can use Advanced Regions to embed your .NET form into a native Outlook view and modify such Outlook Explorer parts as Reading pane, List of items (Supergrid), place your custom form under the Navigation pane, etc... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: ribbon controls and keyboard shortcuts, part 3

This is the 3rd and the final part of the video series covering the development of Outlook COM add-ins with Add-in Express. You already know how to create a new Outlook COM add-in project and add a custom Outlook commandbar (part 1). You also know how to add a custom pane to Outlook windows and access the Outlook object model (part 2)... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: object model, task panes, events, part 2

In the first part of this video sample we showed you how to create a new COM add-in solution and add a new Outlook commandbar. Now we are going to demonstrate how to deal with custom task panes in Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: Explorer and Inspector command bars, part 1

This is yet another series of visual HowTo that focus on Outlook COM add-ins. We will start from the very beginning and show you how to customize Outlook command bars and their buttons, Outlook menu and task panes, how to modify the Ribbon UI and handle events of controls... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Explorer toolbars (VB.NET)

In this video we will again be going over possible ways of customization the Outlook Explorer UI with Add-in Express for Office and .NET components. In the first part of the serious we focused on customizing the Outlook Explorer menu. Today we will explorer the capabilities of the ADXOlExplorerCommandBar component that you can use to add your own toolbars and modify existing ones... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Explorer toolbars (VSTO)

We go on with looking at the possible ways of modifying the Outlook Explorer UI with the help of Add-in Express for Office and .NET components. Today we are going to look at how the ADXOlExplorerCommandBar component can help you add your own toolbars and modify the existing ones... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize the Outlook Explorer menu (VB.NET)

Today's sample opens a series of VB.NET HowTo videos in which we will have a close look at the most common ways of customizing the Outlook Explorer UI. Let's start with the Outlook main menu... Read the rest of this entry →

The Old New Year 2010 and Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer

A period of more than 3 centuries when our country was part of Russia brought to our initially West-European culture lots of things habitual for Eurasian culture. Now we celebrate with the same passion Catholic Christmas, New Year, Orthodox Christmas and finally the Old New Year... Read the rest of this entry →

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