Posts Tagged ‘.NET’
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – BottomTodoBar region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | October 18th, 2010
Today we will show you how to create your custom form and build it into the Outlook Explorer window under the standard Outlook 2007 and 2010 To-Do bar... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – BottomNavigationPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | October 11th, 2010
This sample opens a new series of HowTo videos that will showcase each Outlook region that can be customized using Add-in Express for Office and .net. In today's Video HowTo we will show you how to create your own form and build it into the Outlook Explorer window under the standard Outlook Navigation Pane... Read the rest of this entry →
MS Outlook Advanced Regions, Folder Views and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 11th, 2010
In this week's post, we'll build an add-in for Northwind Traders with which they will be able to set a different view on their Inbox in order to see a time-based view on when orders have been received. We'll be using an advance forms region to give our users an easy-to-use interface... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Project 2010: COM add-in development
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 7th, 2010
In this weeks' post I'll demonstrate how using Add-in Express 2010, you can write an add-in to integrate MS Office Project 2010 and MS Office Outlook 2010 and vice versa... Read the rest of this entry →
Visio 2010: Writing COM add-ins in C# and VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 20th, 2010
The beauty about Add-in Express is that it allows you to write add-ins for those Microsoft Office applications that you wouldn't even have thought it possible. In this post I'll show you how to create an add-in for MS Visio 2010 that automatically builds an Organizational chart for Northwind Traders.
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Video: Create an Office shared add-in – building the GUI
Ty Anderson | September 13th, 2010
I like to tinker with new technologies to see what they can do and how I could potentially use them in the solutions I build for my clients. A lot of the times my tinkering never leads to full understanding of the technology. In such cases, I don't blame myself nor my sometimes fickle love for the latest shiny bits... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Add-in Express 2010, part 3
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 13th, 2010
When most organisations buy MS Dynamics CRM they probably already made an investment in systems to help them manage their business processes. In this post I'll demonstrate how you can use Add-in Express 2010 to easily leverage Northwinds' (Our Customer) existing web ordering system and import orders received from the internet into MS Dynamics CRM from within MS Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Add-in Express 2010, part 2
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 7th, 2010
Welcome to the second part of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM focused blog series. In part 1, we discussed how to customize the MS Dynamics CRM Outlook Client. In this post we'll continue to use Add-in Express 2010 to further customize the Outlook client and provide our users with an alternate user interface to MS Dynamics CRM... Read the rest of this entry →
From VB6 to .NET. At last…
Andrei Smolin | August 13th, 2010
In one of my previous lives, I was a VBA and VB6 developer: ReDim, InStr, Msgbox, If Not Obj Is Nothing and other ugly things were part of that nice life. Now I live another life and have both VB.NET and C# experience gradually shifting to C#. If you are a late wayfarer on the […]... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Add any .net controls to Internet Explorer toolbars (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | July 28th, 2010
Besides Explorer bar and Explorer menus, I can suggest looking into one more visual thing that can be quickly customized with Add-in Express for Internet Explorer and .net. This is IE toolbars... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 26th, 2010
Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is quickly becoming one of the leading CRM Suites for midsized and large organizations according to a recent research report. You might ask how this affects you as Office developer
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Insight of Add-in Express Loader
Sergey Grischenko | July 23rd, 2010
Add-in Express Loader is an unmanaged dll developed with the Visual C++ Active Template Library (ATL). It acts as a proxy between a host application and the real .NET library. The loader itself is never registered and it shouldn’t be. It is just specified as a dll to be loaded for managed classes
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Video HowTo: Customize main and context menus in Internet Explorer (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | July 16th, 2010
Apart from Explorer bar there are a few more things that can be easily customized in Internet Explorer and today we will look into the customization of main menu and context menus. Yes, you can modify them by adding your own menu items... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create a custom Explorer bar for Internet Explorer (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | July 8th, 2010
Let's talk about extending Internet Explorer user interface. What visual feature is most frequently used by an average user? I bet it is Favorites, of course after the Address Bar... Read the rest of this entry →
RTD Servers and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 5th, 2010
Real-time data (RTD) is data that updates on its own schedule. The most common example is stock quotes, warehouse activities and web server loads. In this post, Northwind Traders has requested a sales dashboard in Excel that updates sales figures and targets dynamically by reading order information from their sales database... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Communicate with a COM add-in from a standalone application
Dmitry Kostochko | July 2nd, 2010
In order to get a standalone application to communicate with a COM add-in, the application needs to have access to the running host application (Microsoft Excel in our case), get the COMAddins collection, find a needed instance of the add-in there and use reflection to call public methods or retrieve public properties... Read the rest of this entry →