Posts Tagged ‘.NET’
Video: Localizing your Office COM add-in
Ty Anderson | June 15th, 2011
Internet Explorer is the world's most popular browser which makes it a nice target for custom solutions. Using Add-in Express helps you build Office COM Add-ins that your users love. As a result, you might be looking to expand to different markets… markets that probably do not speak you language. As a result, you are looking to build a localized version or versions of your add-in... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Developing Internet Explorer extensions, end-to-end demo
Ty Anderson | June 13th, 2011
Internet Explorer is the world's most popular browser which makes it a nice target for custom solutions. Microsoft provides an IE SDK that attempts to provide you with guidance on how to build custom toolbars, menus, side bars, etc. The problem is that this SDK leaves you alone to fall into the potential pitfalls and doesn’t lend you a helping hand
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Creating integrated Office solutions with Add-in Express
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 7th, 2011
Add-in Express enables you as a developer to quickly and easily create, not just MS Office add-ins but also Excel XLL add-ins, Excel Real-time data (RTD) servers and smart tags. In this post I'll demonstrate how you could include all this functionality in one Visual Studio project. Start by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: IE extension development made simple with Add-in Express for Internet Explorer
Ty Anderson | June 7th, 2011
As the most popular browser Internet Explorer makes a nice target for solutions that extend browser functionality or that provide additional features for working with browser based content. Lucky for us developers Microsoft provides an SDK for Internet Explorer. Even luckier for us developers is that Add-in Express simplifies Internet Explorer plug-in development by providing an all-in-one framework
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Video: Fully featured setup projects for Office solutions
Ty Anderson | May 26th, 2011
It's well known that Add-in Express simplifies Office development via our support for multiple types of Office based solutions. But perhaps you don't know that one of our best features is how we simplify deployment via support of 4 base deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Fully-featured solutions for all Excel add-in types
Ty Anderson | May 10th, 2011
Microsoft Excel supports multiple types of add-in architectures, from XLLs to user-defined functions and COM add-ins to real-time data servers. Each have their own interface in Excel and each require separate sets of technical knowledge to use them effectively leaving a developer just wondering where to begin... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Advanced Word task panes – Top task pane (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | May 6th, 2011
The next pane of the Word task panes series that we are going to explore is the Advanced Top Task Pane. We are going to create a new COM add-in that will work in Microsoft Word 2000 - 2010, add a custom task pane and bind it to the top position... Read the rest of this entry →
Adding Internet Explorer bars to IE GUI using Add-in Express
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 4th, 2011
Add-in Express for Internet Explorer is yet another tool designed to make the life of developers easier. It provides you with a quick and simple way to customize Microsoft Internet Explorer. In this post I'll demonstrate how to create an explorer bar for Internet Explorer... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating an Office COM add-in: getting started for VB developers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 2nd, 2011
How to quickly create a shared COM add-in for Microsoft Outlook, Excel and word in VB.NET. Sample add-in is available for download.... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Advanced Word task panes – Left task pane (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 29th, 2011
To continue with a series of short video how-to demonstrating the capabilities of Add-in Express in customizing the Microsoft Office UI, we will explorer the Advanced Word Task Panes... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – InspectorRegion region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 22nd, 2011
Today we are going to review the potential of InspectorRegion. Using this region you can add your own form underneath the main page of any Outlook Inspector window, such as mail, contact, appointment etc. Let's see how to create it... Read the rest of this entry →
Programming for Outlook Business Contact Manager (BCM)
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 19th, 2011
Microsoft Business Contact Manager or BCM is a great way for mostly small businesses to manage their business contacts, sales leads and projects. The beauty of BCM for MS Office developers is the fact that it is entirely contained within MS Outlook; giving the user a seamlessly integrated experience with Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Extend Outlook UI with advanced version neutral regions
Ty Anderson | April 18th, 2011
Office users love Microsoft Outlook. But users often have unique productivity methods that often don't quite fit within Outlook's out of the box features set. Thinks to Add-in Express this isn't a problem! Developers can extend the Outlook user interface by implementing something known as version neutral regions... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – BottomSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 15th, 2011
Today we are going to shed some light on the capabilities of the BottomSubpane region. We will create our own advanced region and host it to the bottom part of the Inspector window that contains mail items... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Take your Outlook plug-in development to another level (C#, VB.NET)
Ty Anderson | April 15th, 2011
If Microsoft Office is a productivity suite, then Microsoft Outlook is the foundation of Office productivity. Office users spend a significant portion of their day using the programs to do things like manage emails, keep an appointment calendar, maintain a contacts database, track To-Do lists etc... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – RightSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 8th, 2011
The next Inspector region that we target is RightSubpane. This region is located on the right of the Inspector window, it can be bound to any Outlook items such as mail, task, contact, etc... Read the rest of this entry →