This is part 6 of the deployment series that targets corporate deployment techniques and provides step-by-step instructions for deploying your per-machine Office extensions via Group Policy. I recommend that you start with reading Part 1 that gives a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
With a little regret I proceed to the final part of the video how-to series covering Outlook explorer regions. We have just 4 more explorer regions to look into - DockLeft, DockTop, DockRight and DockBottom... Read the rest of this entry →
This is part 5 of the series of articles which describes all possible ways of deploying your Office extensions based on Add-in Express. I recommend you starting from the very beginning: Step-by-step deployment of Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
In part 4 of the deployment series I will show you how to deploy your per-user Office extension using ClickOnce. Before we proceed, I recommend that you read Part 1 for a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
This is part 3 of the deployment series that provides step-by-step instructions for deploying your per-machine Office extensions via an MSI installer. I recommend that you start with reading Part 1 that gives a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
This is part 2 of the series that covers all possible ways of deploying Add-in Express based Office extensions. Part 1 provided a brief overview of the available deployment technologies and now we are going to have a close look into deploying per-user Office extensions via an MSI installer... Read the rest of this entry →
The table below gives an overview of the main features supported by the above mentioned technologies that you can use for deploying your Add-in Express based Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
In the last video of the Reading Pane customization series we are going to show you how to replace the entire Reading Pane with our custom region. The ReadingPane advanced region is a special region type... Read the rest of this entry →
This is one more example of the Outlook Reading Pane customization, and today we will cover the BottomReadingPane region. In this video we are going to create a new advanced region and locate it beneath the Outlook Reading Pane... Read the rest of this entry →
I admit it…it's been awhile since we published Part 1. So I don't blame you if gave up hope of ever seeing Part 2. But I'm here to tell you that you have not waited in vain because today we present to you Part 2 of the Create an Office Shared Add-in series... Read the rest of this entry →
As you can guess from the title of this post, today it is the turn for the RightReadingPane region. In this video HowTo sample, we are going to create a new region residing to the right of the Outlook Reading Pane, and we'll add just a little code there... Read the rest of this entry →
This is yet another sample of the Outlook Reading Pane customizations, in which we look into the capabilities of the TopReadingPane region... Read the rest of this entry →
Hoping again for re-use, I created a little utility library which contains some general-purpose functions that you may find useful... Read the rest of this entry →
By default, Excel won't call RefreshData more often than every 2 seconds (the Throttle Interval). For financial data that's arriving fast and furiously, this is reasonable, but for GeodesiX it makes the interface seem rather slow... Read the rest of this entry →
In part 2: Avoiding VSTO, I lauded Add-in Express for having such an easy interface to create a Steup Project. I stand by what I said, but GeodesiX goes a fair bit further than just implementing a few Excel UDFs. The problem that have to address is... Read the rest of this entry →
Another short subject, but worthy of a few remarks. The GoogleMaps taskpane is implemented in a separate project, hopefully re-usable. The task pane is created in Geodesix.AddinModule #27#, which also contains the event handlers
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Solid framework for deep customization of Microsoft Office. Use solution templates,
visual designers and components to develop version-neutral, secure and easy deployable extensions for all Office versions.
Supported Office extensions
COM add-ins, Outlook plug-ins, RTD servers, smart tags, Excel XLL and UDF
Add-in Express™
for Microsoft® Office and Delphi® VCL
Get the best platform for building version-neutral, fast and easy deployable plug-ins by using Add-in Express projects templates, visual designers, components and wizards in combination with a perfect Delphi compiler.
Supported Office extensions
COM add-ins, Outlook plug-ins, smart tags, Excel RTD and UDF
This technology is now available for our custom development services only. Based on the Add-in Express for Office core, it is designed for building custom-tailored Office add-ins with far less coding than you usually have to do. Plus, it includes all Add-in Express features such as True RAD, visual designers, Outlook view and form regions, etc.
Extensions: VSTO-based application-level Office add-ins
Applications: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, InfoPath
Office versions: 2003, 2007, 2010 (x86 and x64)
IDE: VSTO 2005 SE, 2008, 2010; VB.NET, C#
Add-in Express™ Regions for Microsoft® Outlook® and VSTO
Use this VSTO extension to develop advanced view and form regions for 17 different areas of the main Outlook Explorer window and all Outlook Inspector windows.
Supported extensions
Application-level Outlook add-ins
Requirements
Outlook versions: 2021 - 2003
IDE: Visual Studio 2022 - 2012 with VSTO installed
This is an extension for Visual Studio that allows developers to quickly create WiX-based setup projects in a familiar Visual Studio way.
The Designer for WiX Toolset lets you forget the plain Windows Installer XML and concentrate on your deployment logic. It integrates several editors with the Visual Studio IDE and provides a set of vdproj designers to configure the file system, registry, user interface, custom actions, launch conditions and more for your setup projects.
Requirements
Visual Studio versions: 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
This technology is now available for our custom development services only. This visual toolkit allows creating secure, managed, isolated, deployable and version-neutral plug-ins for Outlook Express and Windows Mail. It provides powerful solution templates, Outlook Express - specific components, visual designers and wizards for advanced customization of Outlook Express menus, toolbars, panes and regions.
Extensions: Outlook Express plug-ins
Versions: Outlook Express 6.x, Windows Mail 6.x
IDE: VS 2005, 2008; VB.NET, C#, C++/CLI
Add just a few lines of code to bypass the Outlook Object Model guard and avoid security warnings in add-ins and applications that automate Microsoft Outlook.
Supported application types
Stand-alone apps, Outlook add-ins
Requirements
Outlook versions: 2021 - 2000
Languages: VB.NET, C#, Delphi XE2 - Delphi 11 Alexandria, C++ (MFC/ATL/CLI), VBA, etc.
The innovative technology for customizing Outlook views and forms. It is included in all Add-in Express for Office products and can be used to extend Outlook views, e-mail, task and appointment windows, To-Do bar, Reading and Navigation panes with your own custom sub-panes.
Extensions: application-level Outlook add-ins
Outlook versions: 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010 (x86 and x64)
.NET Edition: VS 2005, 2008, 2010; VB.NET, C#, C++/CLI
.NET Framework: 2.0 and higher
VCL Edition: Delphi 5 - XE
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