Posts Tagged ‘Excel’
Office UX guidelines for Excel 2013 content apps and Word 2013 task pane apps
Pieter van der Westhuizen | August 30th, 2012
My original plan for this article was to give you an overview of the new UX guidelines, but I’ve since decided to do a more hands on guide with some code thrown in for good measure. So strap on your web development helmets folks, it’s going to be a wild ride!... Read the rest of this entry →
How to customize context / right click menu of Excel 2013, 2010 and lower: C# sample
Dmitry Kostochko | August 22nd, 2012
Right-click menus of Microsoft Office applications are a very convenient option for the end-user to interact with the host application. And for us, COM add-in developers, creating a custom menu for our users could be just a piece of cake... Read the rest of this entry →
Programming for Office 2010 on Windows 8 with Visual Studio 2012
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 25th, 2012
If you've been following any IT related news lately you would've noticed that Microsoft has a number of new products and ideas up their sleeves. Last week we've seen their tablet offering, Microsoft Surface, announced. Windows 8 is close to release as well as Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013 will be released in 2013... Read the rest of this entry →
Building integrated Excel extensions: COM Add-in, RTD Server and XLL in one C# project
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 12th, 2012
Add-in Express for Office and .net makes building Microsoft Excel extensions easy. We provide you with a collection of tools and components to get that world-class Excel add-in out of the door and into the world in record time.
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Video: Creating Excel add-in using C#, VB.NET
Ty Anderson | June 4th, 2012
Excel is a popular target application for Office COM Add-ins and Add-in Express has the tools to empower you, the Excel add-in developer. In this relatively short video, we show you how our tools provide components and visual designers to help you quickly... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating Excel 2010, 2007 addin. Customizing Excel Ribbon: C#, VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 29th, 2012
In today's article we'll concentrate on the components and tools Add-in Express for Office and .net gives us when developing COM add-ins for Excel 2007 and Excel 2010... 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: 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 →
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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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 →
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 →
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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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 →
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 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 →