Posts Tagged ‘COM add-ins’
Using Word Dialogs programmatically: C# sample
Andrei Smolin | February 16th, 2012
This blog is about a sample add-in project (with source code) demonstrating how to use Word dialogs programmatically. With this add-in you can check if a given dialog is suitable for your task or get version-specific information about that dialog and its properties... Read the rest of this entry →
Version-neutrality for your Office extensions: Add-in Express vs. VSTO
Pieter van der Westhuizen | February 14th, 2012
I have to be honest. I have become very spoiled with Add-in Express when it comes to Microsoft Office development, a fact that I once again realized after a discussion with the gang about Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) and Add-in Express... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. Visual Studio Tools for Office
Pieter van der Westhuizen | February 9th, 2012
Almost four years to this day, I wrote about the new Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) available in the latest release of Visual Studio 2008. I've also later posted an update that I've found a much more efficient way of developing for Microsoft Office; and that way was of course Add-in Express!... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – building a custom Click Twice deployment package
Ty Anderson | February 9th, 2012
The video, Part 5, is the last of the series. In this 15-ish minute video, you will learn how to build a Click Twice deployment package for the MyTasks add-in. Click Twice is one of the major strengths of the Add-in Express toolset... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook 2010 Solutions Module revisited
Pieter van der Westhuizen | February 2nd, 2012
It's been a year and seven months since my first article about the Outlook 2010 Solutions Module. Time sure flies when you're having fun. Since I first wrote the article, I received numerous comments and questions about the Outlook 2010 Solutions module, mostly on how to programmatically add items to it... Read the rest of this entry →
Moving your existing Access database to Office 365
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 27th, 2012
A few years ago I had a client who since they started their business used a Microsoft Access database to track their projects and the time their consultants worked on projects. As the company expanded the database grew up to a point where they realized an upgrade is needed. I was asked to move the database to a Microsoft SQL server backend, whilst keeping MS Access as the front-end... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – connecting business logic to Office events
Ty Anderson | January 26th, 2012
On Tuesday we published Part 3 of the end-to-end demo. Today, we have Part 4. In reality parts 3 and 4 can be taken together but we thought it's better to break them up a bit and provide a bit of a break. But we have momentum now so let's keep this train a-moving because Part 5 is almost ready for its debut as well.... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – interacting with Office object models & events
Ty Anderson | January 24th, 2012
I admit some time has passed since we produced parts 1 and part 2 of our end-to-end demo. I'll take the blame for it. It's okay. But I want you to know the remaining parts have been sitting in my Outlook Tasks folder… staring at me… taunting me.
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Office 365 – Attach files from SharePoint to Outlook E-mail programmatically
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 23rd, 2012
In my last post, Save Outlook e-mails & attachments to SharePoint Online programmatically, I showed you how you can write a Microsoft Outlook Add-in that will save all the attachments on an e-mail to the Office 365 SharePoint Online Shared Documents library. In today's post I would like to show you how to do the opposite, e.g. how to attach files from SharePoint Online to Outlook e-mail messages. This could be useful if your customer has a shared library with documents they send via e-mail on a regular basis.
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How to load your Office COM add-in on condition
Andrei Smolin | January 20th, 2012
A typical problem is: how to unload my add-in if a custom condition is met. This blog post is about how to solve this problem.... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 – Save Outlook e-mails & attachments to SharePoint Online programmatically
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 19th, 2012
If you're following Ty's Office 365 Newswires and read this article about Microsoft already having sold five million Office 365 seats in roughly two and a half months, I'm sure you would agree with me that Office 365 is set to change, if not revolutionize the way people use and interact with Microsoft Office.
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How to navigate through the Microsoft Office Command Bar system
Andrei Smolin | January 16th, 2012
There are 4 instances of the command bar button "Save" (Id=3) in Excel. Two of them are best known: a button on the Standard commandbar and an item in the File menu. The other two instances are buried in the command bar system... Read the rest of this entry →
How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: replying from a context-menu
Andrei Smolin | December 14th, 2011
Let's consider the case then the user replies to an Outlook e-mail from the context menu. First off, you can reply to one item only; that item is selected or right-clicked in an explorer window or is opened in an inspector window.... Read the rest of this entry →
How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: tracking Inspector.Activate
Andrei Smolin | December 13th, 2011
In my previous article I explained the Reply event and parameters it provides. Also, I described a class handling this event in a version-neutral way. Now what I want is to show how you intercept Outlook's Inspector.Activate event.... Read the rest of this entry →
How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: tracking Explorer.SelectionChange
Andrei Smolin | December 8th, 2011
Add-in Express implements a version-independent approach to handling events of an Outlook item. The class implementing this is called ADXOutlookItemEvents. I recommend that you regard this class as a set of event handlers; you can implement several such classes to follow several business rules... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create a custom event when Excel calculation mode changes
Andrei Smolin | December 5th, 2011
You should be aware that no such event exists. Let's create it. In Excel 2007 - 2010, you can change the calculation mode using the buttons shown in the screenshot below... Read the rest of this entry →