Posts Tagged ‘COM add-ins’
Windows Forms controls smackdown (for MS Office)
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 2nd, 2012
Add-in Express provides us with some awesome tools for adding our own Office Task Panes and advance Outlook form and view regions, but making the UI elements on those panes and regions look good, is up to us... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Create a new distribution list item in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | March 29th, 2012
Sometimes Outlook users need to send their e-mails to the same recipients. The Outlook Object Model provides the DistListItem class exactly for this task. The distribution list represents a group of contacts that are related in some way... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook, custom task pane and drag-drop problem
Alexander Solomenko | March 26th, 2012
I want to share a solution to the problem related to using drag-n-drop in my Outlook 2010 add-in. The task was as follows: we needed to implement a UserControl that would accept MailItem or Selection by using the dragging functions, or more precisely Drag-and-Drop.
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How To: Remove a Personal Folders file from the current Outlook profile
Eugene Astafiev | March 21st, 2012
In my previous post we discussed how to add a new personal folders store to the Outlook profile. Now I would like to reveal the opposite action – how to remove a personal folders store... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Create a new Outlook Personal Folders store and add it to the current profile
Eugene Astafiev | March 19th, 2012
Sometimes developers need to add an additional store in Outlook for archiving e-mails, making backup copies of email conversations etc. The AddStore method of the Namespace class of the Outlook Object Model provides the required functionality... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Use Restrict method to retrieve Outlook Task items
Eugene Astafiev | March 15th, 2012
Today I would like to show you how to filter task items using the Restrict method of the Items class which the Outlook Object Model provides for developers... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO – Microsoft Office developer happiness
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 13th, 2012
This being the eighth and final instalment of the Add-in Express vs. VSTO series, I thought I'd wrap up with what could possibly be the most important feature of Add-in Express: Developer Happiness... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Office add-in deployment
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 9th, 2012
Planning the deployment of any software product is something most of us leave right to the end of the project. It makes logical sense to do so, everything that needs to be built is built and we know what we need to deploy... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Custom Office task panes
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 6th, 2012
A task pane is a dockable window which was first introduced in Microsoft Office XP. It provided a new and convenient way for users to gather information and access common features and commands. Chances are that if you’ve used any application in the Microsoft Office suite you would have used a task pane... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Use Outlook Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Task items
Eugene Astafiev | March 5th, 2012
In my previous articles I described how to use Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items, contact and calendar items. Now I am going to show you how to apply the Find and FindNext methods for Outlook task items... Read the rest of this entry →
How to intercept clicking an Office Ribbon control or command bar button
Andrei Smolin | February 27th, 2012
There are three ways to invoke a command of an Office application: click a built-in Ribbon button (2007-2010); click a built-in CommandBar button (Office 2000-2003 and some Office 2007 applications) and press a keyboard shortcut... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Customizing Backstage View and context menu
Pieter van der Westhuizen | February 24th, 2012
One of the first articles I wrote for Add-in Express was about the Office 2010 Backstage View. Microsoft Office 2010 was still new and users of Office where still getting used to Microsoft's new approach to the "File" menu. The Add-in Express Backstage view component has since received a new and very impressive visual designer that makes designing the Backstage view a piece of cake
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How To: Create a new recurrent Task item in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | February 23rd, 2012
There are two item types that can be recurrent in Outlook: appointment and task items. In one of my earlier posts described the first one. Now I am going to tell you the story about task items... Read the rest of this entry →
Excel shapes events: getting notified about user actions
Andrei Smolin | February 21st, 2012
The Excel object model doesn't have any events purposed for manipulations with shapes. In this blog I demonstrate an approach to solving this problem... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Visual designers for Office Ribbon UI customization
Pieter van der Westhuizen | February 20th, 2012
Creating a Microsoft Office add-in prototype is certainly much faster with the help of Add-in Express's visual designers. The visual designers help you to very quickly and easily build complex Office UI's as well as customize the existing MS Office UI... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Create a new Task item in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | February 17th, 2012
In my previous posts I have described how to create a new e-mail message, contact and appointment items. Today I am going to cover task items... Read the rest of this entry →