Posts Tagged ‘.NET’
Add-in Express 2010 and Office add-ins: Getting started
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 14th, 2010
I have used Add-in Express before and can honestly say that if you want to develop an MS Office add-in this product is definitely a worthwhile investment. In this post I’ll explain the benefits and some of the key features of Add-in Express 2010 for Office and .net when creating a small Office Add-in that is shared among Excel, Word and Outlook.... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 for Office: new GUI designers and the new guy
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 14th, 2010
Firstly, let me introduce myself, I’m Pieter van der Westhuizen, a recent addition to the Add-in Express team and I will be your host on a series of blog posts covering various aspects of the Add-in Express product range. As a keen user of the Add-in Express tools, this is an ideal opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with like-minded users... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2010 RTM and Visual Studio 2010 RTM fully supported by Add-in Express 2010 Beta 2
Eugene Starostin | May 13th, 2010
I know for sure that quite an impressive number of our customers (about 2 thousands) are already using the previous beta to their utmost. To all of them as well as to those of you who received the keys but haven't thought yet about the compatibility with Office 2010, I recommend installing beta 2. And here is why... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Security Manager deployment: compiling a standalone application with “AnyCPU”, part 4
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | May 10th, 2010
This is the 4th part of the Outlook Security Manager 2010 deployment series, in which we will look at the deployment of standalone applications compiled with AnyCPU on 32-bit and 64-bit machines... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Security Manager deployment: self-registration in a Visual Studio setup project, part 3
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | May 7th, 2010
We continue to look at the various ways of deploying your applications that use Outlook Security Manager. As I showed in part 2, you can register secman.dll or secman64.dll using regsvr32. Alternatively you can use the vsdrfCOMSelfReg option of your installer... Read the rest of this entry →
How to show an Outlook.MailItem in PrintPreview mode programmatically
Andrei Smolin | May 6th, 2010
The Outlook object model doesn't allow showing the PrintPreview dialog. To show it in all Outlook versions, you need to call the Execute method of a corresponding command bar button. Also, in Outlook 2007 and 2010, you can invoke the corresponding Ribbon command using the ExecuteMso method of the Office.CommandBars class. Let's see how to do this... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Security Manager deployment: bitness and regsvr32 utility, part 2
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | May 6th, 2010
As I mentioned in the first part of this series that highlighted the basics of Outlook Security Manager 2010 deployment for .NET, ActiveX and VCL, if your software uses the Outlook Security Manager component, you need to register one of the secman or osmax files depending on the Outlook version installed on a target PC... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Security Manager deployment: overview
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | May 5th, 2010
Two editions of Outlook Security Manager 2010, .net and ActiveX, support Microsoft Outlook 2010, 32-bit and 64-bit. In this series of articles I will try to cover all possible ways of how you can deploy your applications that use Outlook Security Manager, for all Outlook versions. In fact, deployment for Outlook 2000 – 2007 as well as Outlook 2010, 32-bit is practically the same, and only deploying for Outlook 2010, 64-bit has some peculiarities... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Support Office command bars and Ribbon UI in one add-in project (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 30th, 2010
Add-in Express supports creating COM add-ins for Office 2000 - 2010. Office 2000, XP and 2003 have a traditional command bar-based user interface, while Office 2007 is partially and Office 2010 is fully ribbonized. "How is it possible to support both types of user interfaces in one COM add-in project?" you may ask... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 for Office becomes free for Standard packages
Eugene Starostin | April 29th, 2010
Until now only subscribers of Professional and Premium packages could be sure of their cloudless future with Add-in Express and confident that their Add-in Express based extensions would work consistently with Office 2010, 32- and 64-bit (naturally, the latter is only for .net). "Why so?" you may ask... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Creating an XLL add-in for Excel 2000 – 2007 (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 23rd, 2010
Looking at the list of already published video howto samples, I just realized that most of them target Outlook. This is no wonder at all, because every MS Office developers would confirm that Outlook is the most in-demand application from the Microsoft Office family... Read the rest of this entry →
Just two screenshots
Eugene Starostin | April 22nd, 2010
Do not look for this in beta 1! :)... Read the rest of this entry →
Advanced Office task panes and Office 2010 – first view
Eugene Starostin | April 22nd, 2010
Advanced Office task panes in Office 2010 have no principle differences from those of any other Office versions, they just work and that's it. That's why this subject is so arid, that I won't get back to it anymore. However, after scrutinizing all the above screenshots, I see that we will definitely ennoble certain "pixels"... Read the rest of this entry →
Create custom Outlook 2010 view and form programmatically
Eugene Starostin | April 21st, 2010
Right after publishing our first beta we sent out about two thousand registration keys to everyone who according to our license policy is eligible for free major upgrades. Since then we've got some quite positive feedback, but as I see, most of our customers traditionally ignore anything containing the word "beta" in version info... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment: Managing updates, part 3
Sergey Grischenko | April 16th, 2010
This is the third and the final part of my series about ClickTwice - MSI-based web deployment technology introduced in Add-in Express 2010. In the first article of this series I covered the basics of our MSI-based web deployment, and gave you a step-by-step guidance on creating a new setup project. And now we are going to have a close look at managing your application updates... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment: Publishing the application, part 2
Sergey Grischenko | April 15th, 2010
In the first article of this series I covered the basics of our Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment, also known as ClickTwice :) and gave you a step-by-step guidance on creating a new setup project. Now we are going to look at the main aspects of publishing the application using this deployment technology... Read the rest of this entry →